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Gamma ray scanners? Night vision cameras? bomb-proof manhole covers? G-Men? It must be Super Bowl time again, and Marion County, Indiana says that they’ve gone where no other municipality has gone before: a permanent, $18 million regional operation center (yes – ROC) that will manage security at the Big Game.
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A new banking Trojan variant can bypass CAPTCHA, as demonstrated by a video posted today by security firm Websense on their Security Labs blog.
Google announced Tuesday that it will revamp its privacy policy and terms of service, boiling more than 60 privacy policies down to one comprehensive document that will extend across most of their products.
The New York State Public Service Commission announced yesterday they’ll be looking into a data breach that may have exposed the personal information of almost two million customers to unknown attackers.
A fake version of the popular Camera+ iPhone application was offered on Apple’s App Store over the weekend, according to a post by Glyn Evans on the iPhoneography blog on Saturday, just the latest example of suspicious and malicious applications to slip through Apple’s shadowy application vetting project.
In his presentation at S4, doctoral student Eireann Leverett presented his research showing how more than 10,000 Internet acccessible industrial control systems can be found online, including HVAC systems, building management systems, PLCs and other industrial systems. Here, Leverett shows a Google Map displaying the location of vulnerable ICS devices in North America.
The Project Basecamp presentation received a rousing response from the audience, many of whom are industrial control security experts who have long warned, quietly, about the woeful state of software security in the industry. But not everyone was enthused. Kevin Hemsley of ICS-CERT questioned Peterson about the decision to go public with the Project’s findings before notifying vendors. Here, Wightman presents his findings at S4.
The devices tested by the Basecamp Project included the D20 PLC by GE, The Modicon Quantum by Schneider Electric, Rockwell and Koyo Electronics. Each device was tested using a number of additional attack vectors. Researchers attempted to upload custom firmware or so-called “ladder logic” for the device, looked for back door accounts, weak authentication, undocumented features that could be exploited and fuzzed each device for vulnerable services. Here, a grid presents the results of the tests. A green check means the device passed the test.
The researchers working on Project Basecamp found significant security issues with programmable logic controller (PLC) they tested. Some PLCs were too brittle and insecure to even tolerate security scans and probing.
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