Ex-NSA Hackers Score $20 Million To Defend Planes, Trains And Tanks From Cyber Sabotage

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Ex-NSA Hackers Score $20 Million To Defend Planes, Trains And Tanks From Cyber Sabotage
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Shift5 warns America’s transport and weapons systems are vulnerable, claiming it has the best people in the world - former members of an elite NSA hacking unit - to protect them.

That cybersecurity is now a major part of modern espionage and warfare - and that parts of global critical infrastructure are vulnerable - is no secret. In Iran, for instance, drones have reportedly been hacked out of the sky, a uranium enrichment plant breached, and trains disrupted after displays at stations across the country were digitally defaced. In the U.S.

In the private realm, it’s had most success in the train industry. Though it declined to name customers, Lospinoso, who also worked for the Pentagon’s U.S. Cyber Command with Weigand, toldShift5 is helping protect trains from coast to coast with several of the largest U.S. passenger rail systems. “There's a reasonable chance that if you're riding on a locomotive, there's Shift5 gear involved on that system, or there's about to be.

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