Privacy News Network Rail targeted by 4 Cyber-Attacks

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Four major cyberattacks have been reported on UK railway computer networks over the past year, according to new statistics revealed by UK-based security firm Darktrace, which is employed to guard much of the UK's rail network from attack.

While detail about the full extent of the hacks remains unknown, experts indicate that such breaches are typically "exploratory" rather than disruptive.

Speaking with Sky News, Sergey Gordeychik, cybersecurity researcher at Russian firm Kaspersky Lab, said access to UK rail could give hackers control over everything from online information boards to the computer systems that manage signals, internal messages and even the trains themselves.

"If they have enough knowledge, then they can create real disaster related to train safety," he said. "We see at the moment that state-sponsored attackers are already inside critical infrastructure."

Gordeychik continued: "So they have access, they monitor, they collect intelligence but they don't try to create a disaster. Why? I believe that they don't have the order at the moment. But in case of any maybe warfare, it can be an option to use cyber weapon against civil infrastructure. This is scary."

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[SpartacusSystem]

Now would be a good time for them to push out some IT cyber-security based apprenticeships.

 

[DJ Panda]

If my car got hacked. My money would be 2nd priority safety is number 1. It sickens me what people will do for money even if it involves possibly crashing a train and killing people..

 

[Andytay70]

Technology rules our lives and sadly will end it too at the rate things are going.

 

[Logethica]

Now would be a good time for them to push out some IT cyber-security based apprenticeships.

I fully agree with you..

If my car got hacked. My money would be 2nd priority safety is number 1. It sickens me what people will do for money even if it involves possibly crashing a train and killing people..

I fully agree with you..

Technology rules our lives and sadly will end it too at the rate things are going.

I fully agree with you..

3 Excellent Points IMO, each of which from a different angle..
1) Funding/Research 2)Ethics 3)The Pitfalls of Technological Progress
...each point is entirely relevant,and the 3 points combined sum it up 100% IMO

 

[_CyberGhosT_]

It sickens me what people will do for money even if it involves possibly crashing a train and killing people..

Sickens yes, but in this day and age it comes as no surprise at all. All countries are going or have gone the way of
Capitolistic asses to the extreme, it’s sad really

 

[simbelmayne]

It sickens me what people will do for money even if it involves possibly crashing a train and killing people..

Do you really think that money is the cause of such actions? Money could be earned in lots of easier ways, especially if we speak about hackers. This is a preparation for the direct attack, like it happened yesterday in Italy, where two trains crushed on one-way railway face to face. How this could happen accidentally?

 

[jamescv7]

"Some companies will still be using older operating systems or running bespoke applications that will be a logistical nightmare to upgrade. Although at first glance [UK Rail] may seem an insignificant target, the stakes are high when we have large volumes of users in flimsy metal containers passing, sharing lines and travelling at high speeds."

Why not go to Linux? Companies must consider so many factors on that adjustment.

They can hire so many Linux specialist to create a same thing rail way program system without any compromising security.