This week in hacking: The control system for a U.S. public utility was compromised. The Department of Homeland Security did not specify which utility was affected in the agencys Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) report. A DHS official told Reuters, While unauthorized access was identified, ICS-CERT was able to work with the affected entity to […]
Just as a good novel has themes, so too do the security challenges facing industrial control systems. In a report recently issued by the Department of Homeland Security’s ICS-CERT (Industrial Control System Cyber Emergency Response Team), those themes revealed themselves to be poor authentication and a failure to protect Internet-accessible devices. The report mentions three […]
By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) – A sophisticated hacking group recently attacked a U.S. public utility and compromised its control system network, but there was no evidence that the utilitys operations were affected, according to the Department of Homeland Security. DHS did not identify the utility in a report that was issued this week by […]
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