“Digital signatures that protect access to power-plant control systems are highly insecure, an industry leader warns — and some companies want to make the problem worse.” (Source: Disaster awaits U.S. power grid as cybersecurity lags | Security & Privacy – CNET News.) Ori...
The SANS Institute announced on December 27 that the DHS National Cyber Security Division and Idaho National Laboratory have won the 2011U.S. National Cybersecurity Innovation Award for building cybersecurity skills needed to defend the power grid and other control systems....
Russian hackers are reported to have been behind an attack on a water utility station in Springfield, Illinois, earlier this month, destroying a pump after gaining unauthorized access to the system. As reportedly previously SCADA – Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition – systems are often u...
via The Register Officials with the US Department of Homeland Security warned that hackers could attack the country’s power generation plants, water treatment facilities, and other critical infrastructure with clones of the Stuxnet computer worm, which was used to disrupt Iran’s nuclear-...
via infoTECH News The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology issued the following news release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued the final version of its Guide to Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security (SP 800-82), in...
via Infosecurity “When you introduce computers everywhere in the grid — in the generation, transmission, distribution, and metering in homes — then you also introduce security risks. Unfortunately, it is very common that when new infrastructure is introduced, security is more of an...