🌱 How the Oldsmar water hack still shapes today’s IoT security playbook
Oldsmar, Florida Patch AM: a 4 min readHello Oldsmar! Here's our latest buzz. Let's get into it. ☀️
In today's newsletter:
- How the Oldsmar water hack still shapes today’s IoT security playbook
Also on today's calendar: Sonic Sanctuary: A Soul-Healing Blues Experience and 7 more events.
Today's riddle: Why are frogs poor conversationists? 🤔 (Answer below!)
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- Monday: A couple of afternoon showers, with a high of 90 and low of 74 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• IoT Security Challenges: Risks and Solutions for Smart Devices (securityjournalamericas.com) — A recent cybersecurity explainer revisits the 2021 Oldsmar water treatment incident, where hackers tried to remotely alter chemical levels, as a warning about insecure connected systems. Using Oldsmar and other real-world cases, it outlines how weak passwords, poor patching, and sprawling device networks leave utilities, hospitals, factories, and smart-city infrastructure exposed, and offers practical steps businesses can take to harden their IoT defenses. 
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What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- So yesterday, 24 hours ago I reported this issue with the stairs because when I watched the Amazon delivery person run up and down them and the entire staircase was shaking and I thought it was going to collapse, so I went out there and took video
and pictures submitted it to our Apartment Complex email and I guess they don’t feel it’s that important to come out and take a look at it. There’s … (Nextdoor Aventine Forest Lakes-Abbey) - s enclosure apart..
im currently in tears trying to search the yard,I live on the corner of park Blvd and saint Petersburg drive,the big house with the chain link fence… (Nextdoor Oldsmar)
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🗞 Nearby News
Safety Harbor
- Florida School IT Director Jailed After Cyber Cops Trace Child Pornography To Safety Harbor Home (tampafp.com)
- "I'm Going To Solve A Problem": Florida Man Shoots Roommate In Jealous Rage Over Ex-Wife (tampafp.com)
- From Safety Harbor to the Stars: The Breezy, Interplanetary Sound of Cosmic Jenkins (wmnf.org)
Palm Harbor
- Weekend Top 10: Sharks, Spaghetti, Sleeping Beauty & Dali in America (registrytampabay.com)
- Tampa Bay's best things to do this week, including ‘RuPaul's Drag Race' watch party, New Moon Makers' Market and more (cltampa.com)
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: They jump to conclusions. (Thank you Rita S. for sending it in!)
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