America's Achilles Heel in the Water Wars The recent spate of cyberattacks on US municipal water systems has exposed a critical vulnerability in our nation's infrastructure: the widespread use of default passwords for industrial control systems.
Iranian linked hackers may not have achieved their goal of contaminating drinking water or crippling supply chains, but they've highlighted a systemic problem that demands attention from policymakers and corporate leaders.
The threat is staggering. With over 152,000 public drinking water systems in the US, any one of them could be compromised by a determined hacker.