2010 was the year that BP’s Deepwater Horizon infamously blew up and sank in the Gulf of Mexico releasing millions of gallons of oil into the ocean. The principle cause turned out to be a mechanical ...

In the same year that a massive explosion and oil spill rocked the Gulf of Mexico, a digital disaster played out halfway around the world. A drilling rig was at sea after leaving its construction site ...

Malicious software unintentionally downloaded by offshore oil workers has incapacitated computer networks on some rigs and platforms, exposing gaps in security that could pose serious risks to people ...

A lone hacker is earning between £38,500 to £64,000 ($60,000 to $100,000) per month by using an automated attack tool to send around one million spam emails a day, according to researchers from ...

He adds that original equipment manufacture products on all current generation BOPs have been found to carry varying levels of infection. “Your BOP may be infected,” Van Gemert says. The viruses have ...

The RIG exploit kit is now infecting victim's computers with a new ransomware variant called Buran. This ransomware is a variant of the Vega ransomware that was previously being distributed through ...

A report in the Houston Chronicle indicates that oil rigs and platforms have been “incapacitated” by malware that employees downloaded, both whilst ashore and on the ocean-borne resource extraction ...

2010 was the year that BP’s Deepwater Horizon infamously blew up and sank in the Gulf of Mexico releasing millions of gallons of oil into the ocean. The principle cause turned out to be a mechanical ...