{"id":37944,"date":"2021-07-21T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T00:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37944"},"modified":"2021-07-21T17:28:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T00:28:00","slug":"officials-warn-of-cyber-vulnerabilities-in-water-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37944","title":{"rendered":"Officials warn of cyber vulnerabilities in water systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers and experts on Wednesday warned of gaping cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the nation\u2019s critical water sector amid escalating attacks against a number of U.S. organizations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that the next Pearl Harbor, the next 9\/11, will be cyber, and we are facing a vulnerability in all of our systems, but water is one of the most critical and I think one of the most vulnerable,\u201d Sen.\u00a0Angus King\u00a0(I-Maine), the co-chairman of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission (CSC), testified to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is an incipient nightmare here, and it involves all sectors of our critical infrastructure, but water I think is probably the most vulnerable because of the dispersed nature of water systems in the country,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n<p>Cyber threats have soared in recent years, including recent ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure such as Colonial Pipeline, and the water sector has not been immune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers and experts on Wednesday warned&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-tech","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37945,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37944\/revisions\/37945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}