Items Tagged with "SCADA"
Making Patching Work for SCADA and Industrial Control System Security
April 05, 2013 Added by:Eric Byres
Applying patches is a critical part of good security. According to US-CERT, about 95% of all network intrusions could have been avoided by keeping systems up to date with appropriate patches. What I am against is patching as a knee-jerk reaction to security vulnerabilities. You can’t expect your control system to operate reliably if you don’t have a controlled process for patching.
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ICS-CERT Alerts of Mitsubishi MX SCADA Vulnerability
April 03, 2013 Added by:Steve Ragan
ICS-CERT has issued a warning this week after vulnerability details concerning Mitsubishi’s MX Component started to gain attention online.
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The Threat to Industrial Control Systems from Physical Persistent Design Features (PPDF)
April 01, 2013 Added by:Joe Weiss
Industrial control systems (ICSs) were designed for reliability and safety and to enable system operability and functionality. Many ICSs were originally designed before networking was commonplace. Consequently, cyber security was not a design consideration.
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SCADA and ICS Security Patching: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
March 26, 2013 Added by:Eric Byres
Let's examine the good, the bad and the ugly details of patching as a means to secure SCADA and ICS systems. And to begin, let’s suppose patches could be installed without shutting down the process...
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SCADA and ICS Security: Welcome to the Patching Treadmill
March 15, 2013 Added by:Eric Byres
After Stuxnet, security researchers and hackers on the prowl for new targets to exploit shifted their efforts to critical industrial infrastructure. Unfortunately, the SCADA and Industrial Control Systems applications they are now focusing on are sitting ducks.
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SANS SCADA and Process Control Security Survey - The State of the Industry is Discouraging
March 04, 2013 Added by:Joe Weiss
SANS has published their SANS SCADA and Process Control Security Survey. The results paint a very confusing picture and actually demonstrate the existing approaches to awareness and security are not working.
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Symantec Uncovers Earliest Known Version of Stuxnet (Version 0.5)
February 26, 2013 Added by:Mike Lennon
According to Symantec, Stuxnet Version 0.5, an earlier and less sophisticated version of Stuxnet, was designed to close crucial valves that feed uranium hexafluoride gas into the centrifuges, causing serious damage to the centrifuges and the uranium enrichment system as a whole.
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iPhones Are Coming to the Plant Floor – Can we Secure Them?
February 20, 2013 Added by:Eric Byres
Like icebergs, mobile technology has become an unstoppable force of nature. They have invaded the corporate office – is the plant floor the next frontier? What is your company doing about mobile devices on the plant floor? Does it have a strategy?
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Time to Speak Up on New IF-MAP Specs for ICS and SCADA Security
February 12, 2013 Added by:Eric Byres
Something I believe industry urgently needs is better standards for information exchange between security solutions. Unfortunately while TCG has had feedback from the IT community, they have received little from the SCADA or ICS community. I encourage everyone involved with SCADA and ICS security to review the specification.
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SCADA Security Directions for 2013 - How Will ICS and SCADA Security Change in 2013?
February 01, 2013 Added by:Eric Byres
You see, every January I get asked to make between three and five predictions for the upcoming year. Then every December people remind me that I made those predictions 12 months ago. Then they get to tell me how poorly I did.
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Perfect Citizen, US vulnerability assessment program on critical infrastructures
January 02, 2013 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
CNET web site has published a news on a secret National Security Agency program named Perfect Citizen that is targeting on large-scale the control systems inside utilities, including power grid and gas pipeline controllers, with the purpose to discover security vulnerabilities.
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Hackers at the Controls
December 16, 2012 Added by:Jayson Wylie
An FBI report details what could be the hacking elite sect of Anonymous, Antisec, using a backdoor to compromise an air-conditioning control system in New Jersey. This leaves me to the question of how vulnerable the government and private sectors are for these types of compromise...
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Modernizing Physical Security and Incorporating Best Practices Into New Assets
November 18, 2012 Added by:Michele Westergaard
Cyber security threats to the utility industry are increasing in number and sophistication. The North American Reliability Corporation (NERC) is increasing the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) regulatory requirements to ensure facilities are meeting basic standards in this area...
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Industrial Control System Security: A Reliability Issue?
November 06, 2012 Added by:Larry Karisny
Cyber Security Expert Joe Weiss has spearheaded the ICS Cyber Security Conference for 12 years and when he calls in the troops, the best come to serve. Last month’s conference held at Old Dominion University's Virginia Modeling Analysis and Simulation Center -- VMASC in Suffolk, Va. -- was no different...
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Optimism... or Special Interests?
October 31, 2012 Added by:Jayson Wylie
There seems to be some political purpose to the current interests around Kaspersky. They are becoming involved in investigating malware of a cyber weapon nature instead of the constant pursuit of Trojan variants and financial fraud that is more damaging to the masses originating around their home office...
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Securing Smart Grid, SCADA, and Other Industrial Control Systems
October 11, 2012 Added by:Ben Rothke
The Stuxnet computer worm of mid-2010 was a huge wake-up call for the energy industry. It also catapulted SCADA from an obscure term to the forefront of industrial security. But nearly two years later, it is unclear if the energy sector is adequately prepared for sophisticated information security threats...