These are typical, illustrative, and sad. Conversation 1: PLC Vendor A PLC vendor reached out to Digital Bond and encouraged us to share any results we found on their systems with them. He said they were very interested in security and understood they needed to do...
EnergySec has formed the Publicly Accessible Control Systems Working Group (PACS-WG) to try to track down and remove Internet accessible devices identified in Project Shine and elsewhere. The kickoff webinar is next Friday. Eric Byres and Tofino have teamed with Joel...
A I spoke recently with Kelly Jackson Higgins of Dark Reading about the number of vulnerabilities being found post-Stuxnet. This obviously is due to the increased attention from researchers and hackers. The data also shows some vendors and products have a steady...
Last September, I did a guest blog post titled “Online-Malware-Support-Shows-Infected-ICS-Computers”, where I searched for HiJackThis posts containing automation software. Basically, there are forums available to users that had been infected with viruses....
All ICS are not created equal — at least not from an impact to the critical infrastructure. There is a tendency to treat every ICS vulnerability or ICS security issue as a dire impact to a nation’s critical infrastructure. Those responsible for securing...
Reid Wightman and HD Moore wrote up an Nmap NSE script to detect if your PLC running the CoDeSys ladder logic runtime lacks effective authentication to access the application command shell, transfer files, … the insecure by design issues covered on the Project...
It is hard for me to write it any better than 3S, from their site: In general, we do not offer any standard tools in CODESYS which are to protect the controller from a serious cyber attack. Should the offered password functionality suggest such a protection, this was...
A light week of news with most of the US attention deservedly focused on dealing with and recovering from Sandy. SANS highlighted a new international Consortium for Cybersecurity Action (CCA). It’s largely based around the top ten / top twenty security controls...
ICS-CERT issued an advisory today, C3-ILEX EOSCADA Multiple Vulnerabilities, based on a Digital Bond information. I’ll tell you a bit more of the interesting story and technical details. We found these vulnerabilities on a client assessment in October 2010. They...
I had an opportunity to meet with much of the Japanese Control System Security Center (CSSC) team on Tuesday. They are impressively moving out fast on their efforts to build and educate the ICS security community in Japan. The CSSC was established in March of 2012,...
