E002-2026 Cyberium Podcast - NoName and the Price of Open Doors

Europe is panicking over NoName057(16) and Z-Pentest, the pro-Russia crews claiming attacks on grocery distribution and threatening water and power grids. Ray is not impressed. He opens with the detail that should scare you more than any claim: after an intrusion, your own control panels can lie to you, and a temperature reading back to normal does not, on its own, prove your goods were kept safe. The official files describe mediocre opportunists walking in through industrial remote-access panels left exposed with factory passwords, while Italy's cybersecurity agency documents real cold-chain incidents in France and Italy whose attribution is still unconfirmed. In this episode: why "we repelled the attacks" is the metric of self-congratulation, what a DDoS actually proves and what it doesn't, who really pays for the open door that vendors and maintainers find so convenient, and the three verifiable questions every official should answer before grabbing a microphone. Blunt, documented, and angry for a reason.