Taiwan’s High-Speed Railway, THSR, Shut Down
INCIDENT
Four trains in Taiwan ended up stopped for 48 minutes last month by an attacker using software-defined radio (SDR) communications and handheld radios to transmit a high-priority “General Alarm” signal. That signal triggered emergency braking procedures.
As a result of that incident, a 23-year-old university student in Taiwan is now under arrest suspected of interfering with the TETRA communication system April 5 used by the country’s high-speed railway network (THSR).
THSR is a high-speed railway network in Taiwan that runs a single 350 km (217 miles) two-way line along the western coast of the country, with trains reaching speeds of up to 186 mph (300 km/h).
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