{"id":551,"date":"2013-01-15T09:55:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T08:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crowmoor.se\/blog\/?p=551"},"modified":"2026-10-19T19:34:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T18:34:53","slug":"stealing-a-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowmoor.se\/blog\/?p=551","title":{"rendered":"Stealing a train – or more correctly accidently starting it"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is an interesting story going around the news<\/a> in Sweden today. A train was stolen by a young janitor. She drove it rather fast into a house. No one was hurt and now the security routines are to be updated. It puts a finger right on a rather important spot in the field of security: Why would one attack us?<\/p>\n

Who in Sweden would ever come up with the idea to steal a train? There is no way you could get away with it, you can\u00b4t sell it, take it home or in any other way use it. So why would anyone attack you? I\u00b4m rather certain that this train theft will show that she either was under influence of drugs or that is just a case of joyriding that went terribly wrong and here is also the reason why you could be attacked: You exist and have something that could be attacked just because it exists. It is so easy to download a hacking kit and start running scripts and if you don\u2019t use secure coding, patch management etc. you could become a target for a script kiddie just as the janitor stole the train. Most attacks are an effect of a random encounter on the web, still the attack could be as devastating as smashing a train into a house!<\/p>\n

—EDIT—
\nJust recently the investigation showed that the janitor had accidently started the train due to the fact that several security mechanisms where bypassed. Still the original story is interesting even if it in this case was an accident. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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