Late last week a story came out about Juniper Networks routers being susceptible to a remote reboot. Versions of JUNOS and JUNOSe prior to 10.X can be crashed by sending a single packet to an open port on the router. The reboot occurs when a packet with the TCP Header...
The newly appointed “Cyber Security Czar”, Howard Schmidt recently noted that he considers smart phones and such devices one of the largest areas of concern for cyber security. Saying “What they’ve been attacking on the desktop they’ll...
We selected Kris Harms from Mandiant to give next week’s S4 Keynote on the topic of Advanced Persistent Threat [APT]. This week Google and Adobe announce investigations of some more serious than normal attacks. A couple of key excerpts from the Google blog: In...
In mid-December we completed the Quickdraw project which creates security events for legacy PLC’s that lack a security event logging capability. In the following weeks I will write a blog series on Quickdraw, but a lot of this work involves adding SCADA...
Happy New Year to all our loyal blog readers with special thanks to those that contributed through the comments last year. I enter the year with a strong feeling of optimism for the control system community. There are not an irrefutable, or even compelling, set of...
