Can ships be hacked?

Photo: David Adams, MV Dali and the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse - 240326-A-SE916-6662, A layer has been added showing a character and a speech bubble, CC0 1.0 TL;DR Ships can be hacked Was the MV Dali hacked? Practically impossible Polarised views from uninformed commentators do not help...

Sandworm Hackers Caused Another Blackout in Ukraine—During a Missile Strike

Russia's most notorious military hackers successfully sabotaged Ukraine's power grid for the third time last year. And in this case, the blackout coincided with a physical attack...

Russia's Sandworm Hackers Attempted a Third Blackout in Ukraine

The attack was the first in five years to use Sandworm's Industroyer malware, which is designed to automatically trigger power disruptions...

Cuba’s Social Media Blackout Reflects an Alarming New Normal

In response to mass protests, the country has been blocking social media and communication platforms since Sunday—an increasingly common action worldwide...

2034, Part II: Blackout in Washington, DC

“So much was happening and yet they had no news. Everything had been compromised.”...

New Clues Show How Russia’s Grid Hackers Aimed for Physical Destruction

A fresh look at the 2016 blackout in Ukraine suggests that the cyberattack behind it was intended to cause far more damage...

DARPA's Hail Mary Plan to Restart a Hacked US Electric Grid

On tiny Plum Island, DARPA stages a real-life blackout to put its grid recovery tools to the test...

Dragonfly 2.0: Hacking Group Infiltrated European and US Power Facilities

The notorious hacking group that has been in operation since at least 2011 has re-emerged and is still interested in targeting the United States and European companies in the energy sector. Yes, I am talking about the 'Dragonfly,' a well-resourced, Eastern European hacking group responsible for...

SET v7.7 - The Social-Engineer Toolkit “Blackout”

The Social-Engineer Toolkit SET was created and written by the founder of TrustedSec. It is an open-source Python-driven tool aimed at penetration testing around Social-Engineering. SET has been presented at large-scale conferences including Blackhat, DerbyCon, Defcon, and ShmooCon. With over two...

Modern Combat 5: Blackout - Customized SSL, Redefined SSL Common Names verifier, WebView SSL handling enabled vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Modern Combat 5: Blackout published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

June 2011 – Epic Games & Codemasters Hacks

Happening almost simultaneously with the hacks at Nintendo, Bethesda, and other firms, the Epic Games hack spilled email addresses and encrypted passwords online and prompted the company to reset all of its users’ passwords. Codemasters had it bad too: their breach exposed the personal informatio...

Woohooo! After #SopaBlackout, Congress Postpones Action on #SOPA, #PIPA

Woohooo! After SopaBlackout, Congress Postpones Action on SOPA, PIPA A big hurrah to you!!!!! We've won for now SOPA and PIPA were dropped by Congress today. The votes we've been scrambling to mobilize against have been cancelled. When the entire Internet gets angry, Congress takes notice. Both t...

Libyan authorities restrict internet access !

The Libyan government could pull the plug on the country's internet as protests sweep the country. On Friday and Saturday night the country experienced a near black-out, with continued patchy access this week, according to a Google Transparency Report. Libya has had periods of partial or total...

Facebook Owned 42% of Egyptian Web Traffic Before Blackout

How important a role did Facebook play in the popular revolution that swept Egypt last week? According to data from security firm zScaler: it was very important. Fully 42% of the country’s Web surfing on January 27, the day before Egypt’s main ISPs abruptly severed ties to the Internet. Activity ...