A hacker could exploit this vulnerability, identified by independent researcher Paul Davis, to carry out an arbitrary code execution or program crash, according to the advisory issued by the DHS Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team....
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a security alert Monday for an Ethernet add-on for the Schneider Electric Quantum programmable logic controller (PLC). Such controllers can be used to help manage industrial processes inside everything from physical manufacturing plants and printing p...
Thousands of Internet-connected industrial control systems aren’t being properly protected by firewalls or strong authentication, which leaves them at risk of being exploited by attackers. That warning arrived last week, when the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CE...
The hackers behind the Duqu botnet have shut down their snooping operation, a security researcher said today. The 12 known command-and-control (C&C) servers for Duqu were scrubbed of all files on Oct. 20, 2011, according to Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab. That was just two days after rival antivir...
The flap over the reported water utility hack in Illinois begs the question: Is the reporting system that the U.S. has set up to identify cyberattacks on critical infrastructure broken and in need of re-thinking? FBI, DHS say no evidence of a hack in an Illinois water district pump failure Since the...
Hackers recently accessed the critical infrastructure of three unnamed cities by compromising their SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems, the deputy assistant director of the FBI’s Cyber Division said today. Speaking at the Flemings Cyber Security conference in London, ...
New reports on Nov. 28 backed initial DHS skepticism that the failure of a pump at an Illinois water utility was a foreign cyber attack on the system’s supervisory control and acquisition system. The Washington Post reported on Nov. 28 that the failure of a water pump was the result of an error ...
Federal officials said there’s no evidence to support a report that hackers destroyed a pump used by an Illinois-based water utility after gaining unauthorized access to the computer system it used to operate its machinery. In an email sent on Tuesday afternoon to members of the Industrial Co...