January 15, 2018

More SCADA app vulnerabilities found

A big motivation for pulling software apart to find security flaws is the idealistic hope that developers will get the message and do a better job next time. But what happens if they don’t?

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August 01, 2017

Multiple vulnerabilities found in radiation monitoring gateways

The gateways are used to prevent the illicit trafficking of nuclear and radiological materials.

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May 02, 2017

GE patches flaws allowing attackers to ‘disconnect power grid at will’

Patches come in response to notification of a talk at Black Hat discussing how hackers 'broke the homebrew encryption algorithm

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October 28, 2016

Ensuring that ICS/SCADA isn’t our next IoT nightmare

The DDoS chaos of the past month tells us that we need to work together to ensure future standards and reduce security risks

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March 28, 2016

US indicts 7 Iranians for cyber attacks against Wall Street, NY dam

NASDAQ, the New York Stock Exchange and more were bombarded with DDoS attacks between 2011 and 2013, and a dam's SCADA control system was breached.

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January 20, 2016

Selfie-posting power grid workers are inadvertently exposing critical information

The selfie posters are giving away infrastructure information to potential electricity grid attackers, one expert has warned.

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January 14, 2016

Ukrainian power grid was hit by “co-ordinated cyberattack”

SANS says that the recent Ukrainian power outages attributed to hackers didn't "just happen", but were co-ordinated attacks.

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December 08, 2015

A search engine for the Internet of (insecure) Things

The things that people attach to the Internet are "absolutely astounding": think ATM machines, bank safes, and control systems for power plants.

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July 21, 2015

Baby, you can hack my car: researchers take over a Jeep from 10 miles away

Two renowned security researchers have discovered a way to remotely hack into and take over a Jeep Cherokee, controlling the brakes and accelerator as well as other components.

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