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‘Crash Override’ Might Take Down US Power Grid

What if the attack on the Kiev power station last Christmas which killed power to a goodly chunk for the city was just a dry run?  For what? Security researchers at ESET and Dragos analyzed the malware used in the attack and say it represents a dangerous advancement in attacks on critical infrastructure. Like Stuxnet […]

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When Medical Devices Get Hit With Ransomware

Is it possible that North Korea used stolen NSA hacking tools to infect medical devices at U.S. hospitals?  Forbes says, yes it is. When the WannaCry ransomware spread out of control last week infecting 48 hospital trusts in the UK and unnamed medical facilities in the U.S. for the most part U.S. businesses were not […]

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The Rickety World of Industrial Control Systems

Industrial Control Systems (ICS) run everything from waste water to nuclear power.  Unfortunately, they are on pretty shaky ground. During the cold war, Ronald Reagan’s CIA convinced the Russians to use American control software to manage a gas pipeline in Siberia.  Unfortunately for the Russians, the CIA placed a few time bombs in the software […]

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