Threatpost’s exclusive interview with Ralph Langner continues, as our conversation shifts from the legacy of the Stuxnet worm to larger issues facing the critical infrastructure sector including mounting attacks, tensions between vendors and security researchers over responsible disclosure, and what’s needed to secure critical infrastructure and industrial control systems.
A new report finds that the ‘bad guys’ are winning, and that most nations are ill-prepared for crippling cyber attacks.
Ralph Langner is the closest thing to a rock star that you get in the Dockers and pocket-protector world of industrial control systems. The German researcher made headlines in 2010 as among the first security experts to analyze parts of the Stuxnet worm’s code devoted to manipulating programmable logic controllers by Siemens, and the first to explicitly link the Stuxnet malware with an effort to disable Iran’s uranium enrichment operation.
Facebook and the state of Washington are suing an ad network they accuse of encouraging people to spread spam through clickjacking schemes and other tactics.
The FBI is in the early stages of developing an application that would monitor sites such as Twitter and Facebook, as well as various news feeds, in order to find information on emerging threats and new events happening at the moment. The tool would give specialists the ability to pull the data into a dashboard that also would include classified information that’s coming in at the same time.
A Hawaiian legislator has introduced a broadly worded data-retention bill that require ISPs and other service providers to retain their customers’ Internet activity records for at least two years. The bill, introduced by state Rep. John Mizuno, does not have any provisions for exclusions or privacy considerations and would force the ISPs to hold the customer data, but it does not make any mention of how the data should be protected.
VIEW SLIDESHOW Scenes from S4 2012S4 is a conference hosted by Digital Bond, a security consulting firm based in Sunrise, Florida. Now in its fifth year, the S4 draws some of the world’s top experts in securing industrial control systems to sunny Miami Beach to discuss the state of the art.
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.
In what may become a precedent setting digital rights ruling, Judge Robert Blackburn of the United States District Court of Colorado ruled that compelling an individual to provide access to the encrypted contents of a device does not violate the US Constitution’s prohibition of self incrimination.
The Web site of Sayres and Associates was offline Tuesday, just days after news broke that the firm had parted ways with Aaron Barr, Anonymous’s most famous victim. The reasons for the site’s disappearance, and for Barr’s departure are unclear.
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