At S4x14 Adam Crain of Automatak, along with Chris Sistrunk, presented the results of their Project Robus that fuzzed DNP3 stacks and found most had problems with processing malformed or illegal responses. This year at S4x15 Adam talked about Avoiding Insecurity...
Part 1 covered the need to pull and publish more useful information from the gathered ICS incident and vulnerability data. Part 2 covers “Are the numbers intentionally misleading? 245 Incidents Reported To ICS-CERT in 2014 Means What? The big statistic picked up...
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” Mark Twain (purportedly quoting Benjamin Disraeli) The latest edition of the ICS Monitor, last week’s USA Today articles and the reemergence of Joe Weiss’s secret database...
Andrew Ginter of Waterfall Security Solutions speaks on Embedding Malware in ICS Protocols. His conclusion is this is harder than one thinks. The easier solution might be to use the SQL server, web server, ftp server, or other commonly exploited protocols that...
Eireann Leverett of the University of Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies looks at control system related catastrophe scenarios and the economic impact of these scenarios with an eye towards how insurance and reinsurance policies will be written and priced. Admittedly...
Episode 2015:2 SANS ICS Security Training and Certification SANS provided four individuals for our Unsolicited Response podcast on the 5-day ICS 410: ICS/SCADA Security Essentials training course and the related Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional (GICSP)...
Continuing in the line of CANBus research and tools release I’d like to announce some quick work on a proof-of-concept CANBus IPS called, unoriginally, the CANBus Protector. I took some time to work on defense of CAN after conducting a lot of vulnerability...
Digital Bond is pleased to announce the 2nd edition of S4xJapan will be held on November 5 – 6 in Tokyo. The event will be in the Mori Building, Roppongi Hills. The Academy Hills facilities on the 49th floor were perfect for the event last year. The room where...
The Capture The Flag (CTF) contest in the ICS Village at S4x15 was a big hit. We have had numerous requests from attendees and those that heard about it for more information and data. So Stephen has put together a page of information. The page includes: Examples...
