Month: June 2025

How a summer thunderstorm taught us the hard way about the hidden vulnerabilities in building automation systems The Scene of the Crime It started like any other Monday morning. Our monitoring system was lighting up like a Christmas tree with alerts: “ge-0/0/27 Down,” “ge-0/0/33 Flapping,” “Multiple Interface Failures.” What we initially dismissed as routine network hiccups quickly revealed themselves as something far more sinister. The logs told a story of chaos: ports 25 through 38 were experiencing widespread instability, with …