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Is This SCADA Hacking Friday?

19

Nov

2011

Today’s infosec news focuses on several possible incidents of penetrations at water utility companies. Elinor Mills at C|Net posted a story on a potential compromise last week at a Springfield, Ill., water company that may have resulted in physical damage. Meanwhile Gareth Halfacree at thinq has a writeup on a potential South Houston water supply […]

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Security 101: Attack Vectors, Part 1

16

Nov

2011

In the first part of this series, we discussed the entry points that an intruder could use to attack our “building,” our metaphor for network security. In the next few posts, we shall focus on the next level: attack vectors. If vulnerabilities are the entry points, then attack vectors are the ways attackers can launch […]

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Combating Distributed Denial of Service Attacks in Brazil, Latin America, and Everywhere Else

04

Nov

2011

One of the most disruptive attacks to deal with in today’s threat landscape is the distributed denial of service attack, often called DDoS. Using the resources of many other computers, an attacker can focus a vast amount of packets and power at a single resource and effectively knock it offline for as long a time […]

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