A security researcher is showing that it’s not hard to hold industrial control systems for ransom. He’s experimented with a simulated water treatment system based on actual programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and documented how these can be hacked. David Formby, a PhD student at Georgia Institute of Technology, conducted his experiment to warn the industry […]
A new dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) attack method disclosed by researchers on Friday can allow malicious actors to steal sensitive data from a virtual machine, through a covert channel, using JavaScript. Anders Fogh, principal malware analyst at G DATA Advanced Analytics, and Michael Schwarz, a Ph.D. student at the Graz University of Technology in Austria, […]
The best way to keep data safe is to keep it away from the Internet. This is what’s called an “air gap,” and it’s considered the most practical and effective means to keep hackers out. But the wide availability of drones makes jumping the air gap easier than ever, as Yokogawa Senior Prinicpal Tech Specialist […]
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