My City Was Hacked

Started by deanwebb, April 08, 2017, 11:08:28 PM

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April 08, 2017, 11:08:28 PM
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On 7 April 2017 at around 11:45 PM, Dallas was hacked. Emergency sirens went off for about 90 minutes, until they were shut down completely. As I see it, in at least one way, those sirens were no false alarm.
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

EOS

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April 10, 2017, 06:01:03 AM
I was reading about that this morning...    And you have a good point, maybe the alarms weren't false..

deanwebb

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April 10, 2017, 08:17:56 AM
Quote from: EOS on April 10, 2017, 06:01:03 AM
I was reading about that this morning...    And you have a good point, maybe the alarms weren't false..

It was a classic case of a gray hack. Guy found that the door was open and then left a message to everyone that it needed fixing.
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.
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