What Happens When You Don't Upgrade

Belarusian railway saboteurs severely impeded Russian resupply operations in northern Ukraine.  Railway workers, security force defectors, and cyber specialists all worked independently to disrupt rail transportation.

The Cyber Partisans launched the first attack, hacking into the railway’s computer network in the days leading up to the invasion and snarling rail traffic before Russian troops had even crossed the border. Infiltrating the railway network’s computers was relatively easy, said Yuliana Shemetovets, a spokesperson for the group, which is based in New York, because the railway company is still using Windows XP, an outdated version of the software that contains many vulnerabilities.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/23/ukraine-belarus-railway-saboteurs-russia/

SoulAsylum:

That time bomb is waiting in this country as well. In our case its incompetence.

It's too frightening to contemplate.  An attack on our public utilities would literally cripple us.  The power grid, water supplies, the financial system...virtually all of it is at risk.  Imagine one day when you can't get money out of an ATM, the gas pumps don't work, your credit cards are useless...

That time bomb is waiting in this country as well. In our case its incompetence. 

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hack-dhs-bug-hunters-find-122-security-flaws-in-dhs-systems/