
The Matthew Chapman Podcast
Why Exposed PLCs And AI Memory Poisoning Matter
<p>Here is your briefing for Thursday, August 6, 2026. Over 4,400 Rockwell PLCs Exposed Online, 22 Found in Water Attack Cities Forescout scanned the internet and found more than four thousand four hundred exposed Rockwell Automation programmable logic controllers worldwide, including twenty-two in cities already hit by recent cyberattacks on US water utilities. Nineteen of those sat on the same mobile carrier network. The company could not confirm any had been compromised, but the exposure alone is the story. Attackers in the water incidents did not need zero-days. They changed IP addresses and set passwords on controllers that were already reachable from the...

