What kind of malware is hitting industrial control systems, and how worried should we and the operators of theses systems actually be? IT security teams unused to ICS environments are helping potential attackers by not recognizing legitimate ICS software and flagging it as malicious. This software thus unintentionally ends in public databases, where adversaries might […]
On the heels of the recent activity with Stuxnet, the industrial process control computer worm that targeted Iranian nuclear centrifuges, a Blackhat talk by Thanassis Giannetsos explains how to hack yet another commonly used family of controllers. We have mused that this trend, targeting critical infrastructure nodes, is but a shade of things yet to […]
It’s the week of Black Hat and DEF CON and thousands of computer security experts have gathered to Las Vegas. Hot topics this year include Siemens PLC security, revamping the SSL model and Mac laptop batteries. Mikko keynoting in DEF CON 19 One talk which was highly anticipated was Riley Hassell’s and Shane Macauley’s “Hacking […]
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