After breaking trains simply because an independent repair shop had worked on them, NEWAG is now demanding that trains fixed by hackers be removed from service.

In one of the coolest and more outrageous repair stories in quite some time, three white-hat hackers helped a regional rail company in southwest Poland unbrick a train that had been artificially rendered inoperable by the train’s manufacturer after an independent maintenance company worked on it. The train’s manufacturer is now threatening to sue the hackers who were hired by the independent repair company to fix it.

After breaking trains simply because an independent repair shop had worked on them, NEWAG is now demanding that trains fixed by hackers be removed from service.

  • lad@programming.devEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    TIL that security CTF is

    an exercise in which participants attempt to find text strings, called “flags”, which are secretly hidden in purposefully-vulnerable programs or websites

    Never heard of this and I may not be alone in that. Thanks for pointing this out.

    • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      I did one before. They are SO MUCH FUN. Now I have too many children.

      sob

      edit: There are other ways of capturing the flag like having your team name on the home page of a local web server or whatever.