S4 Video: Attacking The Plant Through WirelessHART

There are two weeks left to submit your session proposal for the S4x17 Main Stage or Stage 2: Technical Deep Dives. Take a look at the Call For Presentations and submit this month. Subscribe to The S4 Events YouTube Channel This S4xVideo is a great example of what we...

Why Invest In Complexity (Toecker)

This guest post is by Michael Toecker of Context Industrial Security and a Digital Bond Alumnus. It first appeared on the SCADASEC list. I thought it was great, and Michael kindly allowed us to post it here. The world isn’t about just the process anymore,...

DNS Slides and Tools Release

Way back at S4xJapan, 2015, Labs did a small research project on DNS domain squatting.  We never thought that it would amount to much in terms of press, but did think that would be a useful talk to spur vendors into action before it was too late. Already we have...
S4x17 Call For Presentations

S4x17 Call For Presentations

Today through August 31st the S4x17 Call For Presentations is open. It is the place to present advanced topics in ICS and related fields to an audience will get it. The process is real simple. Send an email with 2 or 3 paragraphs on your session idea to...

S4 Classic Video: Langner’s Stuxnet Deep Dive

Tomorrow we will be officially opening the S4x17 Call For Presentations (CFP), so I thought it would be the perfect time to highlight one of the S4 Classics to show what a S4 Technical Deep Dive looks like. Watch how Ralph goes through the code/logic in detail so...

S4xEurope Video: IRONGATE – Technical Deep Dive

We decided to put the IRONGATE video from last week’s S4xEurope out first. There is no new big reveal over the information put out in the FireEye article, but Rob provides a lot of context that makes it easier to understand. He also focuses on unanswered...

Why IRONGATE Is A Big ICS Security Story

We were thrilled to add a session by Rob Caldwell / FireEye to next week’s S4xEurope agenda when we learned in April about the ICS malware they have named IRONGATE. This is the second biggest ICSsec story of the year to date, albeit a distant second from the...

S4x16 Keynote Video – General Michael Hayden

General Hayden gave the Day 1 Keynote at S4x16 and really brought it. He had strong and often controversial opinions that were well defended. He pointed out where he disagreed with President Obama, FBI Director Comey and most of Europe. Check it out below or...

S4x16 Video: Billy Rios … Infusion Pump Teardown

Billy Rios of Whitescope gives a classic S4 Technical Deep Dive on a medical device called an Infusion Pump at S4x16 in Miami South Beach. He opens them up, shows the hardware, connections between boards, attack paths, default credentials, rogue firmware upload and...