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The cybersecurity ‘pandemic’ that led to the Colonial Pipeline disaster

The Verge

Honestly, I think for anyone who’s been tracking ransomware closely, this really shouldn’t be a surprise,” says Philip Reiner, CEO of the nonprofit Institute for Security and Technology. Colonial’s IT system was attacked, but that was connected to the company’s operating system, so it shut that down, too.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

Stuxnet targets supervisory control and data acquisition systems. Instead of just targeting zero days in the Windows operating system- which it did -- it then infected Siemens Step7 systems, causing the fast-spinning centrifuges to tear themselves apart. Intelligence Agency? Yes, that narrows it down quite a bit.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

ForAllSecure

And so some of the things because of those work on nonprofit side, again, all all around the InfoSec community, but looking at these different villages, and if you remember to 2014 Around that time before that or so, car hacking was starting to be in the news, people were talking about it. And so that was a a high school level program.