networking @sh.itjust.works notgold @aussie.zone 4mo ago

Networking Infrastructure Attack Causing Train Delays Ahead of Opening Ceremony

www.abc.net.au France's high-speed rail network hit by arson attacks hours before Olympics ceremony

Fires started in railway cabling have impacted up to 800,000 people across the French railway network on the eve of the Paris Olympics.

"Train operator SNCF's chief executive, Jean-Pierre Farandou, said the attackers had started fires in "conduits carrying multiple (fibre-optic) cables" that carried "safety information for drivers" or control the motors for points."

Seems this attack is becoming more common place. Used to just be the occasional tractor or digger damaging fibre but now it's seems to be intentional.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-26/vic-teens-charged-over-politically-motivated-graffiti-josh-burns/104147956

3 comments

Secure your stuff

If it is critical it should be air gapped with only authorized personnel able to connected things to it
- How would that help when someone sets your wires on fire?
  
  They needed physical access