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Dragos
Company blog · dragos.com/blogsecurity
Dragos is the company blog at dragos.com, writing about security. Since 2017, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “CRASHOVERRIDE”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Dragos's blog for industrial control system threat write-ups, such as the TRISIS and CrashOverride reports. Most comments are about the company, its founders or unrelated security news.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- CRASHOVERRIDE2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-06-12
- AI in the Breach: How an Adversary Leveraged AI to Target a Water Utility's OT2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-07
What Hacker News says?
The primary founder (Nir Zuk) is a Unit 8200 alumni, as are the founders of Checkpoint and a bunch of other cyber security companies. Nir Zuk is also a US citizen and went out of his way to base PANW in the US, including their hardware manufacturing and software engineering operations. You'll find former-intelligence blob operators in a great many cyber security companies. Including former American intel employees[0…
Comment linking /
on “Google to buy Wiz for $32B”Submitted Recommendations Following the Colonial Pipeline Cyber Attack as a story · 2 points
HN discussionInternet-accessble industrial control systems have been a problem for many years now. It's a documented issue but it's difficult to fix for a variety of reasons: 1. Difficult to identify the owner: a lot of the devices are on mobile networks that don't point to an obvious owner. 2. Unknown criticality: is it a demo system or something used in production? 3. Security budget: lots of smaller utilities don't have a bud…
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on “Hacker increased chemical level at Oldsmar's city water system, sheriff says”Submitted AI in the Breach: How an Adversary Leveraged AI to Target a Water Utility's OT as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAs a veteran, now civil servant, I think this is an excellent thing for the US military to do. BIAS: I am a PLTR shareholder and I collab with at least one of the units involved. Another similar commissioning was the founder of Dragos, Robert M Lee who was previously a Cyber officer in the Air Force. We need top talent from industry. These highly skilled individuals will be good pickups for the work confronting our…
Comment linking /team/robert-m-lee/
on “US Army Appoints Palantir, Meta, OpenAI Execs as Lt. Colonels”Submitted Accenture Aquires Majority Stake in Dragos as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMy thoughts are that companies don't receive any return in giving you feedback and it's easier to claim retaliation/fear/liability* as the reasoning for not doing it. I'm not sure why anyone thinks ghosting the person reduces their ability to retaliate. Maybe a company could ask a candidate to sign a NDA if they would like feedback otherwise let them know they may not hear back from you. I don't discount your situat…
Comment linking /blog/what-to-expect-when-interviewing-at-dragos/
on “Ask HN: Anyone else struggling to get a software dev job?”Submitted AI in the Breach: How an Adversary Leveraged AI to Target a Water Utility's OT as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHere is the dragos write up on this (pdf): https://dragos.com/blog/trisis/TRISIS-01.pdf
Comment linking /blog/trisis/TRISIS-01.pdf
on “Hackers shut down plant by targeting its safety system”Submitted Costly Mistakes in Cyber Incident Response Preparation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionDirect link to the Dragos executive summary and full report PDF: https://dragos.com/blog/crashoverride/
Comment linking /blog/crashoverride/
on “U.S. Power Companies Warned ‘Nightmare’ Cyber Weapon Already Causing Blackouts”Submitted Ekans Ransomware and ICS Operations (February 2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFull Transcript @ https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/68/ A mysterious mechanical failure one fateful night in a Saudi Arabian chemical plant leads a cast of operational technology researchers down a strange path towards an uncommon, but grave, threat. In this episode, we hear how these researchers discovered this threat and tried to identify who was responsible for the malware behind it. We also consider how this…
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/TRISIS-01.pdf
on “Ep.68 Triton (Podcast June 2020)”Submitted Dragos Inc. Analysis of CRASHOVERRIDE Threat to Electric Grid Operations [pdf] as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted CRASHOVERRIDE as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Analyzing the CRASHOVERRIDE Malware as a story · 1 points
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