Cyber-Kinetic
Cyber-Kinetic Incidents Timeline
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Untargeted Attack – Worcester Airport Control Tower Lost Communication
A teen’s hack of a Boston area telephone system cut off communications for the airport control tower and other critical systems.
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Malfunction – Ariane 5 Rocket Explosion
The 1996 maiden launch of the Ariane 5 rocket by the European Space Agency ended spectacularly with a malfunction causing it to explode 40 seconds after lift-off. The cause was tracked to a single integer overflow coding error.
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Malfunction – USS Yorktown Stranded
A computerized US Navy warship’s propulsion system was disabled by bad data that it was not equipped to handle.
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Targeted Attack – Explosion of Siberian Natural Gas Pipeline
Claimed by a former U.S. CIA operative to have been achieved by inserting malicious code into Canadian pipeline software that Soviet operatives were trying to steal.
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Malfunction – Therac-25 Radiation Poisoning
Six cancer patients died or suffered serious damage from malfunctions in radiation therapy equipment. Because of concurrent programming errors, the machine sometimes gave its patients radiation doses that were hundreds of times greater than normal, resulting in death or serious…
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Targeted Attack – BrickerBot: Botnet That Permanently Incapacitates Poorly Secured IoT Devices
BrickerBot botnets were the “permanent denial-of-service botnet” looking for insecure IoT devices such as those with telnet-based interface exposed and with default passwords and then attempting to take the devices out before they could be enslaved by Mirai and similar…
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