Major Drone Attack Against Global Oil Production Showcases Weak Cybersecurity Thinking
5 min readSep 16, 2019
Drones attacked an oil processing facility last week and shut down half of all Saudi capacity, representing about 5% of the world’s daily oil production. We have seen how a botnet of compromised home appliances can take down a sizeable chunk of the internet, control structures of electricity and other critical infrastructures are being hacked…