Comment Re: communication "days"? (Score 1) 42
One thing of note, round trip time does not equal communication time. Sending the data takes lots of time, especially when hardware is old and interference slashes bitrate.
Comment Cold welding? (Score 1) 41
Now, with the lack of oxidizing atmosphere, there exists a phenomenon known as "cold welding". This is not the stuff you see on social media, instead it is metals directly bonding due to the lack of oxides. If a laser is just powerful enough to strip off the oxides (which many exist in a reasonable form factor here on earth), this might make space welding much easier than regular.
How the process goes in my imagination:
1. blast off oxides off both materials
2. align the pieces
3. clamp together
4. Tada!
Submission + - U.S. Warns New Sophisticated Malware Can Damage Critical Infrastructure (securityweek.com)
wiredmikey writes: The U.S government is sounding a loud alarm after discovering new custom tools capable of full system compromise and disruption of ICS/SCADA devices and servers.
A joint advisory from the Department of Energy, CISA, NSA and the FBI warned that unidentified APT actors have created specialized tools capable of causing major damage to PLCs from Schneider Electric and OMRON Corp. and servers from open-source OPC Foundation.
Privately owned ICS security firm Dragos issued a separate notice documenting what is now the seventh known industrial control system (ICS)-specific malware. “[This] is a modular ICS attack framework that an adversary could leverage to cause disruption, degradation, and possibly even destruction depending on targets and the environment,” the company said.
A joint advisory from the Department of Energy, CISA, NSA and the FBI warned that unidentified APT actors have created specialized tools capable of causing major damage to PLCs from Schneider Electric and OMRON Corp. and servers from open-source OPC Foundation.
Privately owned ICS security firm Dragos issued a separate notice documenting what is now the seventh known industrial control system (ICS)-specific malware. “[This] is a modular ICS attack framework that an adversary could leverage to cause disruption, degradation, and possibly even destruction depending on targets and the environment,” the company said.
