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Sweden Secretly Blames Russian Hackers For Taking Out Air Traffic Control: Report (theregister.co.uk)
John Leyden, reporting for The Register: Sweden suspects a hacker group linked to Russian intelligence was responsible for an attack on its air traffic control systems last November, we're told. Air traffic control systems across much of Sweden were unavailable on November 4. Computer problems meant air traffic controllers were unable to use their displays, an issue that prompted the cancellation of multiple domestic and international flights. Arlanda, Landvetter and Bromma airports were particularly affected. The Swedish Civil Aviation Administration publicly blamed a solar storm. However, behind the scenes the Swedes were notifying NATO about a serious, ongoing cyber attack, Norwegian news outlet aldrimer.no reports.
it still amazes me that SCADA implementations have back doors and direct Internet connectivity. Air Gaps people! No Internet/Intranet access to SCADA systems and access restrictions such as no USB thumb drives in machines and only personnel, verified and doubled up touch the network. It's pragmatic and off the shelf. Use it and then you won't potentially crash planes.
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maybe staying on windows 3.1 would of been better or not.
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It's amazing that a country so far north nearing the winter equinox would would be hit by a solar storm but not the rest of the world...particularly any in the southern hemisphere...so yes I will buy this Russian hacker theory.
We still use old phrases such as the Swedish equivalent of omg. Although i make a point of using it in plural since i kinda wish the aesir faith was still a thing outside of some fringes...
Since when is Sweden a member of NATO?
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The Swedish Civil Aviation Administration publicly blamed a solar storm. However, behind the scenes the Swedes were notifying NATO about a serious, ongoing cyber attack, Norwegian news outlet aldrimer.no reports.
Wait, you mean the government lied to its people?
I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked. We must report this to the authorities at once. I'm sure a proper government-run investigation will get to the bottom of this quickly and the responsible people will be punished. You can count on it.
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The reason why they don't immediately say it's the Russians is because they don't want the public to demand retaliatory measures, which would just escalate the situation dangerously.
Ever heard about the Whiskey on the Rocks incident?
There is no amount of "proof" which would cause the Russians to admit their sub was in Swedish waters.
Considering all the pictures and videos of Soviet troops, tanks, artillery and related vehicles crossing into Ukraine, despite captured Russian troops and nearly 2,000 dead Russian soldiers, despite terrorists in East Ukraine openly stating Russian troops are fighting along side them, Russia still maintains it is not actually invading Ukraine.
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All the ATC systems I worked on up to 2012 were airgapped, apart from a few very low bandwidth links which would be used to pull in meteo type data. No opportunity for a DOS there.
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Putin has been screwing with Russia's neighbors for years, invading Georgia and Ukraine, attempting to inflame ethnic tensions and launching cyber attacks in Lithuania... Anything he can do to disrupt or destabilize his neighbors and Europe in general. For all we know, he's taken the ethnicity issue to an extreme and decided Sweden should be part of Russia because the Rus were Swedish viking-mercenaries.
Or it could just be a continuation of his "sour grapes" policy of trying to make Europe look bad to discourage former Soviet satellites from moving closer to the EU. The sour grapes part is due to Russia's deep seated resentment towards Europe - for centuries Russians have sought to be recognized and accepted as European, and have always been rebuffed. So Putin has been playing on that as a domestic political ploy.
That would be more persuasive if it wasn't already abundantly clear that Russia is fucking around with Sweden.
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