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Advanced Industrial Malware Could be Inside Our Critical Infrastructure

The world’s most advance industrial malware – malware that is designed to go after industrial control systems in places like power plants – called PIPEDREAM, may already have infiltrated some critical infrastructure control systems, waiting to unleash who knows what. Global business advisory firm Ankura said that they are concerned that PIPEDREAM cannot be stopped […]

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Friday News for May 4, 2018

U.K.’s High Court Gives the U.K. Gov 6 Months to Fix Law Privacy in the U.K. is a bit of wishful thinking.  Besides having the most public surveillance cameras in the world (Wikipedia says there is one camera for every 14 people in the country), the government has attempted to kill privacy in other ways.  […]

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DDoS Attack Turns Off The Heat. In Finland. In the Winter.

The most recent distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) meant that most people could not get to Twitter.  While that was awful and may have forced a few people to actually work instead of tweeting, for the most part, that was not a big deal.  In fairness to the DYN attack, there were actually hundreds […]

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Hackers break in to German steel mill and cause “serious damage”

BBC and others are reporting that a German steel mill was hacked.  The report came not from the news media or the mill, but rather the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). As a result, not a lot of details are known, but the posting are new, so perhaps more information will come out […]

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