Cybersecurity
New York's Little Dam Sends Super-Sized Warning of Cyber-Attacks
- Alleged Iranian hacking of dam near Rye said to show dangers
- Power grids, water-treatment plants called vulnerable in U.S.
The Bowman Avenue Dam is seen in Rye Brook, New York.
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The 20-foot Bowman Avenue Dam on the outskirts of Rye, New York, is so inconsequential that many residents of the affluent commuter town didn’t even know it existed. But Iranian hackers did.
“It’s frightening,” Marilyn Weissman, the manager at Dusty Rose, a sportswear and lingerie store at the Rye Ridge Shopping Center, said when told that there’s a dam in the woods nearby -- and that the U.S. Justice Department says it was attacked by hackers tied to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. “You don’t know what will happen.”