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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

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Can criminal hackers shut down a city’s electrical grid? There’s a classic trope in fiction, that a criminal hacker somehow gets information that allows them or their team to take down a power grid of a major city. So this power grid attack is sounding more credible. Well, nothing’s impossible.

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Colonial Pipeline Attack Shows Critical Infrastructure Vulnerabilities

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Colonial Pipeline–sprawling 5,500 miles from Houston to New York City–halted its mainlines on Friday, May 7, when administrators detected advanced ransomware internally. Colonial attack route speculation. Colonial attack route speculation. The Colonial Pipeline supplies 45% of the U.S.

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EP 49: LoL

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Living off the Land (LoL) is an attack where files already on your machine, ie your operating system, are used against you. Vamosi: Whenever there's a data breach, a ransomware attack, large security event in general, I would like to learn something about how it happened. There's a lot of hyper masculine companies down there.