There was another big one at what I think was an oil refinery. They turned off safety valves but made some wrong move and it triggered some kind of master shut down. They could have blown the whole facility and killed people if it went undetected.
Theres a link here
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Is it anarchism, terrorism (where’s the demands or ideology), Russians?
Long thought useless hipsters by the IRA army council, it’s finally the IFSC brigades time to shine
Nation states or some type of billionaire bond villain are the only ones who could afford to engage in this type of hacking.
The Russians, US, Israelis and the Chinese would be the main players. Then North Korea & Iran would also have serious capability.
The North Koreans are more into monetary gain, ransomeware, Bitcoin theft etc than espionage.
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You don’t have to like em but you have to hand it em- those Israeli/Mossad do not fuck about. That Stuxnet was an incredible effort
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Aussie but quick intro laid out plain
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Serious IT talent in Belarus
Because of the complexity, or the need to physically get devices or links into the system?
They’ve moved on from tractor production.
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Complexity. You’ll have seen it mentioned in that other video that stuxnet used 20 zero days. That was 20 previously unknown bugs. The research required to uncover those would be massive.
The Russians, Chinese etc would literally have hundreds if not thousands of people working on hacking campaigns.
It’s not that those systems are left wide open, its that the hackers find the one door out of 100 doors that wasn’t locked.
Thank god we dont have nuclear plants, paddy would be relying on Norton antivirus to keep an eye on it.
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That Stuxnet code was actually discovered/unravelled by an Irish lad working with Symantec
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He mentioned air traffic control … hackers could cause havoc with planes in the sky …
Yep, we all saw what happened Colm Meaney in Die Hard 2.
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Fair enough that’s me clamped, no doubt we have some excellent programmers with all the tech industry here.
On a smaller scale this could all be happening to you with your smart TV, smart fridges, smart bulbs. All smart means is that it can connect to a network and probably a very insecure network at that.
If the IT lads could keep the PC’s turned on in the office we genuinely wouldnt need half of them these days.
There is no printer worries anymore which was easily 30% of their roles previously. Gas cunts with their ink cartridges back in the old normal.
I’d like to go on record and say the Russians are free to put my dishwasher going for me any time.
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