Cybersecurity in public transport: The operator of Hannover’s public transport was hacked. According to the linked article, it seems to be a ransomware attack.
Bus and railway operation are not affected, but different systems such as the displays at the stations or the ticketing platform for the new “Deutschlandticket”.
https://www.csoonline.com/de/a/cyberattacke-auf-hannoversche-verkehrsbetriebe,3674537
Today I attended the CNA e.V. railway technology forum 2024 in Nuremberg for ICS GmbH. The title of the conference was “Unlocking the opportunities of railtech”, which is both necessary and possible with the help of digital systems such as ETCS, ATO and CTMS – if it’s done in the right way. Cybersecurity plays a vital role in…
The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) informs about a wave of DDoS attacks against websites of mainly airports as well as from the financial sector and the government, which happened last week. Post of BSI on LinkedIn
A short excerpt from my pitch on ‘Security for Safety’ as part of the BW-International Session at it-sa 2021 is available here: Post | LinkedIn
German Federal Office For Information Security (BSI) now officially warns to use anti-virus software of the russian manuafacturer Kaspersky. BSI – FAQ – Kaspersky
This morning I’m on the way to Frankfurt for ICS – Informatik Consulting Systems participating at a DKE security working group meeting regarding standardisation of railway security.
Patric Birr and I published an article in SIGNAL+DRAHT, the leading international medium for control and safety technology plus communication and information technology in the railway sector. In the article we propose automating Security Risk Assessments by using digital twins. These allow attack trees to be derived automatically enabling a systematic analysis of potential attack…