Hackers claim control over Venice San Marco anti-flood pumps

Hackers breached Venice ’s San Marco flood system, claiming control of pumps and the ability to disable defenses and flood coastal areas.

The technologies that govern the physical world are the quiet infrastructure of modern life. From energy grids to water systems, from factories to flood defenses, operational technology (OT) has long had one essential mission: to keep everything running.

But today, that is no longer enough. The question the market is asking has fundamentally changed: can these systems withstand a cyberattack? If the answer is no, then what we are building is not infrastructure, it is vulnerability at scale.