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100 Tech Giants Warned That AI Is Making Cyberattacks Easier. They Forgot to Mention Who Will Stop Them.
More than 100 companies signed an open letter about AI-powered hacking. A veteran security educator read it closely and found the plan had no people in it.

OpenAI Pledges $1 Billion to Shield Small Water Plants and Local Governments from Hackers
A new program called Daybreak for Frontline Defenders will give subsidised AI security tools to utilities, councils, and other public bodies that rarely have full-time cybersecurity staff.

Thousands of Rockwell Controllers Sit Exposed Online, With 22 in US Water Attack Cities
Security firm Forescout counted 4,407 industrial controllers reachable from the open internet, and found a small cluster in the same towns recently hit by attacks on water systems.

The criminals behind the Minnesota water attacks may have a better backup of your plant than you do
Hackers hit more than 30 small water utilities in two days. The most alarming detail isn't how they got in: they may have walked out with the only complete copy of control logic the operators ever had.

CISA Warns Hackers Are Breaking Into Water Plant Controllers Left Exposed on the Internet
The US cyber agency says attackers are locking operators out of the small industrial computers that run water systems, forcing boil-water notices and manual operations.