
The Minnesota attackers may hold a better backup of your plant than you do
More than 30 Minnesota community water systems were hit by coordinated cyber activity against their operational technology on July 26 and 27; several lost remote control or deliberately cut it while operators contained the intrusion. The reporting since — including CSO’s own news analysis — has rightly chased two open questions: Who did it, and whether a shared weakness in Rockwell Automation MicroLogix 1400 controllers tied dozens of small utilities together. Both questions matter. Neither changes what operators must do this week. Attribution is the investigators’ problem. Exposure is yours — and the advisories published since July 30 contain considerably more actionable detail than most co...