Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware hacking
Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware hacking
[this is an English translation of the original article in Polish, we occasionally publish the best cyber stories from Poland in English] A train manufactured by a Polish company suddenly broke down during maintenance. The experts
This article is about fixing, but with a twist - it's about fixing trains that their manufacturer sabotaged. :D
In Poland, it took the hacker crew "Dragon Sector" months of work to find a software "time bomb" that was sabotaging "Impuls" trains manufactured by Newag, once their maintenance was handed over to another company.
Let this be a reminder to everyone about closed source technology and critical infrastructure.
This is great - I love that they open sourced the fix to help train operators in other cities.