article thumbnail

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

The Verge

Alpharetta, Georgia-based Colonial Pipeline, which has the largest fuel pipeline, was forced to shut down its oil and gas pipeline system on Friday after a ransomware attack that has slowed down the transportation of oil in the eastern U.S. Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images.

Energy 114
article thumbnail

Cruise is using food bank deliveries as cover to run tests?that may violate stay-home orders, drivers say

The Verge

Cruise’s self-driving cars are back on the road in San Francisco, but the company may be skirting the city’s shelter-in-place rules in its rush to get there, some of the company’s backup drivers say. Engineers, developers, and backup drivers were told to stay at home, as the city’s shelter-in-place order made public road testing impossible.

Banking 63
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

ForAllSecure

In 2015, shortly after the Jeep hack, the National Transportation and Safety Board (NTSB) released a study suggesting that someone could take wireless signals within an airplane and perhaps cause mischief. But also, something you should understand is that all of these airplanes do feature mechanical backup instruments.

article thumbnail

The Hacker Mind Podcast: Surviving Stalkerware

ForAllSecure

For example, the way, mobile phone pings the local cell tower are used by the Transportation Department to report traffic conditions on major roads and highways. As I commuted and did all these weird multimodal transportation things to deal with the traffic of Boston. I just left that location.