Dan Scavino on X

“watch the water “ lol 🤔

US and Israeli authorities issued an advisory confirming that hackers had “accessed multiple US-based” water facilities that operate the Israeli-made equipment, likely by breaking into internet-connected devices with default passwords. The US and Israeli government agencies blamed hackers affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a military branch of the Iranian government, for the activity. The spree of hacks burst into public view a week ago when a water utility outside of Pittsburgh said that apparently pro-Iran hackers breached equipment that the utility uses to manage water pressure and displayed an anti-Israel message on the computer screen. The hacking group whose logo displayed on the screen has a history of pro-Iranian operations and appears to be conducting retaliatory attacks on Israeli-made equipment during the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. The water utility, Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa, serves about 15,000 people. CISA and the FBI — along with private experts and water industry executives — have this week been scrambling to try to get water utilities to take their industrial equipment off of the internet before further hacks occur. One private industry expert, Ron Fabela, told CNN he found numerous cases of the exact same make and model of equipment that was compromised at the Aliquippa water authority that were sitting on the public internet. Politico reported Tuesday that federal investigators were probing multiple hacks of water facilities in the wake of the Pennsylvania incident. The Pittsburgh-area water utility has handed over the hacked equipment to the FBI and has been operating one of its pump stations in manual mode until it can replace the equipment, general manager Robert J. Bible told CNN this week. Bible told CNN Friday evening that he had heard there had been other water facilities targeted with the same hacking technique, but did not have additional details.

The seven Western states that share the Colorado River are facing a looming spring deadline to agree on how to share its dwindling flows. The negotiations will shape the future of the West — and they’ll depend, more than anything, on the personalities around the table. There isn’t a single, or even two or three, fronts to the American West’s water wars. Fault lines cut between states, regions and rural and urban users. And the people leading the negotiations aren’t governors, state lawmakers or even elected officials for the most part: They’re local appointees, bureaucrats and engineers. It’s a mix of old and new players, some with decades of experience and others cutting their teeth during the most consequential water negotiations in modern times. The river that waters the West From its headwaters in the Rocky Mountains to its outflow in the Gulf of California, the Colorado River provides water to seven Western states, parts of Mexico, and metropolitan areas including Denver, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Phoenix. As climate change reduces the river’s flow, users are negotiating new arrangements to manage usage and preserve the river’s ecosystems.

Enough2020

1 year ago

what is up with the bat?

When is this shit show going to end???