By: Bethany Blankley | The Center Square As federal leaders warn state and local leaders about “disabling cyberattacks” potentially targeting their water and wastewater systems nationwide, several small towns in west Texas were targeted by Russian hackers. One water system run by an offsite vendor hadn’t updated its software system’s password in over 10 years,
Water Facilities Warned to Improve Cybersecurity As Hackers Pounce (Second column, 19th story, link)
Suspected North Korean threat actors are attempting to trick software developers into downloading malware during phony job interviews, according to researchers at Securonix.
The cybercriminal threat actor FIN7 is launching spear phishing attacks against the automotive industry in the United States, according to researchers at BlackBerry.
UnitedHealth Group on Monday said it paid ransom to cyberthreat actors to try and protect patient data.
(AP) — Iranian state television says nuclear facilities near Isfahan ‘fully safe’ after air defense batteries fired in area. It remained unclear if the country was under attack. However, tensions remain high in the wider Middle East after Iran’s unprecedented missile-and-drone attack on Israel. One government official suggested sites may have been targeted by drones. […]
Baltimore fire crews pulled a person from the water Monday. SkyTeam 11
In a world that's obsessed with being hydrated, do we worry too much about how much water our kids are drinking? Experts say it's good to monitor, actually.
BATON ROUGE - People living along Paige Street in Baton Rouge have been dealing with a flooded street and soggy yards since a water main break over the weekend.The break caused water to shoot into the air several feet, filling up Cherlyn Jackson's front yard."I'm fixin' to be flooded out that's what's going through my mind and I don't even have flood insurance," she said.Jackson says she called Baton Rouge Water Company on Sunday. The water company says it had scheduled to address the problem...
In its efforts to help you hydrate, this water bottle dares to go where others don't. Whether you'll like it depends on a few factors.
As a drought in Mexico drags on, angry subsistence farmers have begun taking direct action on thirsty avocado orchards and berry fields of commercial farms that are drying up streams in the mountains west of Mexico City. Rivers and even whole lakes are disappearing in the once green and lush state of Michoacán, as the drought combines with a surge in the use of water for the country’s lucrative export crops, led by avocados. In recent days, subsistence farmers and activists from the...
Sheffield star Sean Bean has railed against the class system in television, in an interview to promote his latest role as a ‘baddie’. The Handsworth actor said there was a “wealth of talent” in the working class population that “you don’t see too often.” He spoke out in an interview in The Times to promote Disney’s four-part adaptation of CJ Sansom’s first Shardlake book, Dissolution. He plays Thomas Cromwell, who served as chief minister to King Henry VIII from 1534 to 1540. He said: “There was...