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'State technology officials say more than 30 Minnesota municipal water systems were targeted in a coordinated cyberattack this week. 'In at least one case, a city’s well and treatment plant were temporarily knocked offline Monday. Other cities reported that the attack targeted communications and automated operations within their water system — forcing a move to manual workarounds. … 'Officials said water in the affected cities remains safe to drink.' Computer network attack targets Minnesota cities' water systems By Estelle Timar-Wilcox and Andrew Krueger Minnesota Public Radio https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/07/28/30-minnesota-municipal-water-systems-targeted-cyberattack #Minnesota #ComputerSecurity #WaterSystems

Computer security people, Is there any point erasing a brand new HDD when formatting it for first use? (I used to always do this just in case, but the HDD I now want to format seems really slow to erase and it would take days to do.) #AskFedi #ComputerSecurity