Security News Misconfigured HMIs Expose US Water Systems to Anyone With a Browser

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Censys researchers follow some clues and find hundreds of control-room dashboards for US water utilities on the public internet.
A stray artifact in a TLS certificate led security researchers to an unnerving discovery: hundreds of control-room dashboards for US water utilities were sitting a click away from the public internet, and dozens of them offered full, no-password control over pumps, valves and chemical feeds.
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