Cyber Terror: Who Sabotaged This Saudi Chemical Plant?🎙Darknet Diaries Ep. 68: Triton

When you work in plants like this, they teach you to fight your instinct to help someone if you see them go down for no reason, most of the deadly gasses are odorless, colorless, and instant death and the last thing the rescue team needs is to retrieve 2 dead bodies from a dangerous area.

Episode 68: "Where Jack discusses SCADA without ever actually saying SCADA."

For those wondering, the company is Sabic.

You’re a great storyteller, and the production really helps to immerse you into it. Really enjoy the pod!

Excellent episode. One thing that didn’t quite get hit on but is important: they talked about the decision to start the plant up without a safety system versus leaving it down. Depending upon the specific system, leaving it down can carry its own risks. Some facilities are multistage and pressure can build up in cases of down or partial down states, particularly if it’s a partial down state that has not been planned for. The risk is not entirely one-sided, and I can definitely give the managers the benefit of the doubt regarding the safety of being partially down versus being up. (My husband worked as a safety officer at a chemical research facility.)

The only hack I've ever been a victim of (to my knowledge, at least) was my OG Roblox account got stolen from me in 2010. That shit turned my little heart cold.

This channel is awesome!! I stumbled on it and immediately hooked!! I am a cyber security professional and love the stories

Always looking forward to new episodes! Thanks for all the work you put into this content, Jack. I just went through all your bonus episodes. Really loved the one with your dad. I'm always doing similar things with my son lol

I feel so stupid when I listen to/watch your channel but I pretty much have had you on for 8 hours while working and loving it man, new subscriber for sure, good job dude.

Awesome episode man, I’m a new follower and have been diving in. Love your story telling style and homework sharing approach.

Omg! Finally!! I love your channel…thank you for posting!!!❤

Good Ep Jack, thanks. Keep them coming.

I am addicted to this podcast

I've worked with similar systems, I'm still trying to figure out if they just messed up because by shutting the safety system down made it obvious it was compromised. And, the safety system still interacts with the overall plc/dcs. These are fail-safe as demonstrated by when the safety controller was shut down, the whole system went offline. So why not just force valves open/closed instead of shutting it down if they wanted to damage physical infrastructure/cause causalities? They did say that they changed the inputs/outputs in the program.

I love this storys and mindgames. Keep on the good work mate!

Keep them coming, idk if u clip parts out but more details better

This one obviously falls into the category of cyber-warfare , especially given that human lives where at stake for the only purpose of sabotaging a competitive faction.

I just love this type of solo event explanations

Who would target Saudi industrial systems? Let me count the ways...

Keep them coming Jack. 🤙