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Fiction is Becoming Reality When it Comes to Cybercrime

22. Februar 2021

onelogin 400x120 colorWe need to start thinking of sci-fi and fantasy as educational instead of fictional. We have already been using them as inspiration for years. The first flip phones certainly looked a lot like the communicators from classic Star Trek. But are we looking at them to anticipate the nefarious schemes the bad guys might come up with?

 

A recent attempt on February 5th, 2021 to poison the water supply of a town near Tampa, Florida is straight out of the bad guy handbook. In fact, Computer Weekly directly made the comparison between this recent attack and villain’s plans from the Batman Begins movie which was released in 2005. The attacker in the Florida incident was trying to remotely access the water supply control system and increase the amount of lye, which is poisonous if ingested. In Batman Begins, the bad guy was trying to get hallucinogens into Gotham City’s water supply. ...read more!