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New Cyber Attacks Hit Airport, Metro in Ukraine (reuters.com)
Cyber attacks hit Ukraine's Odessa airport and the metro system in Kiev on Tuesday, with the state-run Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) saying a new wave of hacks was hitting the country and asking transport networks to be on particular alert. From a report: Ukraine was the chief victim of a major cyber attack earlier this year, and the government had warned on Oct. 13 that another strike might be coming. "We ask the owners of telecommunication systems, other information resources, transport infrastructure first of all, as well as ordinary internet users, to comply with stricter cyber security requirements," CERT-Ukraine said in a statement. The cyber police and the infrastructure ministry said that Tuesday's strikes did not appear to constitute a mass attack. The central bank said the banking system was working normally. "We report that the IT system of Odessa international airport has been hit by a hacker attack. All services of the airport are working in a stricter mode," the airport said in a statement.
So, how will Putin's troll network be spinning this one?
1. It's a false flag attack by the Ukraine's own government.
2. It's all part of the Gay Jew conspiracy.
3. Iran
4. Something something CIA/Mossad/
5. But... Hillary's emails!
Stay tuned to Slashdot to find out!
ukraine is weak
We shouldn't allow any Russian-owned traitors like Moscow Donald to continue endangering our country with their treason.
Regardless of actual evidence Russia will be blamed. Get popcorn and enjoy the show.
Coming soon to an America near you!
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
"I could stand in the middle of fifth avenue and shoot someone, and people would still vote for me."
Remember people, this is what your God Trump thinks of his supporters. Basically, he clearly called them morons during the campain, and you proved him right by electing him.
Russia is just training its enemies how to defend themselves. The eyes of the cyber-world are watching Ukraine. Lots of IT talent there.
It is like a proxy war, isn't it. Online, so the blood that is spilled, measured in lost hours of lives, is impossible to measure.
It's been a while, but I have been there. It was pretty old when I was last there, although I read that they are building a new terminal. Odessa isn't a particularly busy airport so it probably makes safer test for any hackers (fewer flights mean fewer victims if it causes an airplane crash). Kiev's main airport KBP should definitely be on the lookout. As a point of interest, an Anonymous Coward posted about the "Gay Jew conspiracy" and Russian trolls, but note that Odessa does actually have some direct flights to Israel. The city of Uman is about halfway between Kiev and Odessa and both the Kiev and Odessa airports have direct flights to Israel and get a decent number of pilgrims who visit a grave in Uman of a rabbi important to Hassidic Judaism.
They should have been using Kaspersky to protect their systems... oh wait a minute ;-)
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Like credit card numbers, and started to wipe away all our individual debt?
Every single post critical of Russia, Putin, or Trump has been downmodded to -1. Good job Putinbots.
You may be be fucking hores, but just like them, you're money well spent.
Now check this very post suffer the same fate !
Operating in a stricter mode
So what? The airports put "use strict;" at the top of their perl scripts? Is this some sort of loose-syntax exploit?
Policing the Cyber sex from Cyber command headquarters!
Did this kind of hacking ever happen with manned radar stations?? I'm pretty sure that thousands of fields that are maturing to ripeness with the same potential problem when robotics kick in. Human beings do have SOME value.