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Researchers Terry McCorke and Billy Rios identified a buffer overflow flaw in a number of components of the ABB WebWare Server applications that are currently being used in many legacy ABB products. However, because they’re approaching the end of their life cycle, the company revealed that no patches should be ... |
5 April 2012
07:46 GMT |
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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA), an agency part of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), acknowledged that in December 2011 hackers managed to breach the systems owned by a Northwest rail company, disrupting railway signals and slowing down trains. According to Nextgov, on two consecutive da... |
24 January 2012
07:55 GMT |
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Using a tool he designed, a security researcher managed to find and locate more than 10,000 industrial control systems (ICS) connected to the public Internet and exposed to hackers, even though officially they’re supposedly contained in closed networks.
Eireann Leverett, a computer science doctoral student at ... |
24 January 2012
07:13 GMT |
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After Danny Ayalon, Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister, stated that the country was one of the best in the world when it came to cyber security, possessing the power to go after any hacker, a member of Anonymous published some information on Israeli SCADA systems.
“Who wanna have some fun with israeli scad... |
12 January 2012
07:22 GMT |
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A few days back we saw how security researcher Billy Rios got angry at Siemens after the company claimed that no authorization bypass flaws were present in their SIMATIC systems. Now, Siemens came forward with a statement reporting that they’re planning to fix the vulnerabilities next month.
Rios became upset ... |
27 December 2011
07:35 GMT |
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In May 2011 a security researcher informed Siemens on the existence of an authentication bypass bug that existed in their SIMATIC systems. While he silently waited for the bug to be resolved, he found out that Siemens completely denies the presence of such a flaw and as a result he decided to publish his findings on ... |
23 December 2011
07:31 GMT |
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Recently we’ve learned about a former member of Anonymous who contacted the US Department of Justice (DoJ) offering his services in the apprehension of the hacktivist collective. The one known as Tony Berman, or root, also promised to bring in information on Jacob Appelbaum, one of Tor project’s lead mem... |
20 December 2011
13:31 GMT |
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As it turns out, the DHS was right when they claimed that the water pump incident was a simple failure and nothing more. The founder and owner of Navionics Research, and the one who helped set up the Illinois utility's SCADA systems was actually the one who accessed the systems from Russia, during one of his vac... |
1 December 2011
05:33 GMT |
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Speaking on behalf of the FBI at the Flemings Cyber Security conference, the deputy assistant director of the Bureau’s Cyber Division admitted that the infrastructures of three cities were illegally accessed by hackers who made use of vulnerabilities in supervisory control and data acquisitions (SCADA) systems.... |
1 December 2011
04:56 GMT |
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Experts believe that the recent attacks on the SCADA systems of the water utilities in South Houston and Illinois are just a small fragment of what's about to happen if companies fail to properly secure their networks.
According to SC Magazine, Sourcefire's technical director, Dominic Storey, believes that... |
25 November 2011
05:32 GMT |
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released the final results of their investigation on the water pump failure incident that occurred at an Illinois water utility. The results show that there was no cybercriminal activity involved and everything was in fact just a ... |
23 November 2011
02:54 GMT |
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There's been a lot of debate lately on the hacks that targeted SCADA system and now the hacker came forward to state that what he actually did can barely be called a hack since there was not much protection to guard the infrastructure.
According to Threat Post, the hacker who calls himself pr0f claims that even... |
21 November 2011
10:00 GMT |
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After seeing that the Department of Homeland Security(DHS) believes the pump failure incident to be nothing more than an unfortunate event instead of a hacking operation, a cyber mastermind came forward to prove that the security methods that protect SCADA systems are highly vulnerable.
The hacker who calls himsel... |
19 November 2011
04:15 GMT |
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A public water utility company's network was attacked after a hacking operation that targeted a SCADA software vendor resulted in the theft of an unknown number of customer usernames and passwords.
Joe Weiss, an industry expert on control systems, reported in a blog post that the issue was not disclosed by the... |
18 November 2011
04:45 GMT |
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Security experts warn that some companies fail to properly secure their SCADA systems and leave them accessible from the Internet. Some control interfaces have even been indexed by Google.During a Black Hat USA workshop entitled "Building, Attacking And Defending SCADA Systems in the Age of Stuxnet," FusionX CTO Tom ... |
5 August 2011
05:58 GMT |
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A security researcher demonstrated dangerous attacks against popular models of Siemens programmable logic controllers (PLCs) at the Black Hat USA security conference.The attacks and vulnerabilities were discovered by NSS Labs security researcher Dillon Beresford and affect Siemens Simatic Step 7 SCADA systems.SCADA (... |
4 August 2011
13:01 GMT |
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The US Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) is advising users of ICONICS GENESIS32 and BizViz to deploy a newly released patch that addresses critical vulnerability in the two SCADA products.The stack overflow flaw was discovered by security researchers Scott Bell and Blair Strang of Se... |
12 May 2011
13:53 GMT |
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The wave of vulnerabilities disclosed in SCADA software continued this week with another public disclosure and an advisory about a patched flaw.Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) software is responsible for monitoring and controlling equipment in industrial facilities, including oil and gas refineries, ... |
25 March 2011
10:54 GMT |
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A security researcher has publicly disclosed 34 serious and critical vulnerabilities in multiple SCADA software applications together with proof-of-concept exploit code. Italian security researcher Luigi Auriemma stirred up controversy two days ago when he published detailed information about vulnerabilities in s... |
23 March 2011
04:47 GMT |
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It seems that the recently discovered Stuxnet rootkit, which shocked the security industry through its sophistication, hides even more secrets. According to Symantec, an in-depth analysis revealed that in addition to stealing trade secrets, the malware can also inject rogue code into SCADA systems, which are used to ... |
7 August 2010
05:59 GMT |
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C4 Security has released an advisory describing a buffer overflow vulnerability in the ABB PCU400 software that is used as a communication interface between SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) servers and remote terminal units on the network. This specific product is known to be used for controlling crit... |
26 September 2008
04:56 GMT |
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Security researcher Kevin Finisterre has released a working exploit for a vulnerability discovered in June in the CitectSCADA software used by many companies to control industrial machineries. This poses a threat for vital strategic facilities like power/water distribution plants or oil/gas refineries to name a few. ... |
10 September 2008
09:50 GMT |
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