6 Nov 2012 | 2012
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...
6 Nov 2012 | 2012
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...
5 Nov 2012 | 2012
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...
2 Nov 2012 | 2012
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...
2 Nov 2012 | 2012
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...
1 Nov 2012 | 2012
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,...
26 Oct 2012 | 2012
The US Dept of Homeland Security had another reorganization. The Control Systems Security Program is now under the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCIC). This was new to me, Justin Searle of UtiliSec has a two-day course Pentesting Smart...
25 Oct 2012 | 2012
Reid Wightman provided one last set of Project Basecamp tools before leaving for ioActive. This latest release are two tools for PLC’s running the CoDeSys ladder logic runtime, which is a list of 261 vendors. codesys-shell.py: just like it sounds, you get the...
23 Oct 2012 | 2012
I have a problem with field security devices. Well, not really A problem, but multiple problems. 1. Avoiding The Root Cause of Insecurity There is a tendency in the ICS community, and even among those considered ICS security gurus, to promote building higher walls...
19 Oct 2012 | 2012
The ICSJWG meeting was this past week in Denver, and the schedule was packed with great presentations, and speakers with a wealth of experience to share with the ICS community. There was a significant bump in attendance this time around. Attendees were from a...
