DUBAI–When new technologies or platforms emerge, they tend to follow a familiar trajectory in terms of security. The evolution typically goes through something like the following stages: Hey, look what we built; huh, no, we didn’t think about that problem; we’re very serious about security; ok, now we’re actually serious about security. This is the […]
Patches are available for buffer overflow bugs in Yokogawa production control software. Public exploits are available for the vulnerabilities, as well as a Metasploit module.
Industrial control system wireless gateways from Digi International are vulnerable to Heartbleed, ICS-CERT warns. The vendor has firmware upgrades available and urges immediate updates.
Bug bounties once were restricted mainly to large software companies such as Mozilla and Google. But the success of these programs has led many other infrastructure and product companies, including Yahoo, Facebook, Barracuda, PayPal and even Microsoft, to launch their own reward systems. Now, the phenomenon has spread to individual developers. Looking at the list […]
The devices that control traffic lights and electronic signs in many cities are vulnerable to a number of attacks, can be exploited quite easily and used to spread malware from device to device.
The White House wants you to know that it did not know about the OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability before you did. The White House also wants you to know that administration officials don’t think stockpiling zero days isn’t necessarily good for national security. That’s all well and good, except that it mostly doesn’t matter.
Siemens continues to work on patches and provide updates to their ICS and SCADA systems affected by the OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability.
An ICS protocol sniffer has been released to GitHub. OpenICS builds data dictionaries, rather than signatures, from the packets it captures in order to help business leaders make security decisions.
A number of ICS products from Siemens and Innominate are vulnerable to the OpenSSL heartbleed flaw, some of which do not have updates available yet. The list of products affected by the heartbleed vulnerability continues to grow by the day, with OpenVPN being one of the latest. A researcher on Friday said that he was […]
The problem of critical infrastructure security has become a key issue in the last few years, as high-profile attacks such as Stuxnet and others have grabbed headlines and alerted politicians and others to the weaknesses facing these vital systems.
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