Get your S4x15 Hotel Reservation at The Surfcomber today or tomorrow. They still have rooms for Tuesday through Friday nights at the $249 conference rate. The non-conference rate is $529. We are in the fourth and final tier of S4x15 registration. Seats 151-190 and...
Threatpost and a handful of other news outlets are reporting on a worm actively exploiting the Shellshock bug against unpatched NASes. As an aside I find it a bit strange that the attackers are only performing clickjacking attacks — a much more obvious attack...
The big story of the week was from Bloomberg’s Robertson & Riley: Mysterious ’08 Turkey Pipeline Blast Opened New Cyberwar Era. While the headline isn’t correct, the sourcing is anonymous and some of the technical conclusions are wrong, this is a...
We have updated the ICS Village page on the S4x15 site. The network diagram is updated so now you will see that there will be Wonderware, Open BACnet stack, and Modicon PLC on the network. The next update will include an almost full list, we will keep a couple of...
The South Beach Pool Party will be at the Surfcomber Hotel on Thursday after the S4 Technical Sessions. We are pleased to announce the entertainment for the party … The Aqualillies! This synchronized swimming group will perform a few numbers in the great...
S4x15 attendees have some choices for the Friday activity. There is the ICSage: ICS Cyber Weapons conference and now two one-day advanced training classes. We pick classes that will teach students with the right experience a new, leading edge skill in one day. These...
This year we have a fun addition to the S4 Cocktail Party held on the Kovens Center deck overlooking the Intracoastal Waterway … drones. We are bringing in CineDrones to let attendees fly a drone through an obstacle course. They claim the drones are virtually...
We have added Kim Zetter, author of Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon, to the S4x15 Week Agenda. We will have Kim onstage for a live interview as part of ICSage on Friday. I’ll have a few questions, but we...
Sean McBride’s Finding SCADA Honeypots on Shodan article is a twist on the Internet connected ICS story. He finds 58 Conpots and 67 honeypots listed as Water Control Valve #27. Two points in this article. One, some basic analysis is required to weed out...
Stephen Hilt and a team of volunteers are working furiously on the ICS Village for S4x15. The ICS Village at S4x14 had a large amount of ICS devices, 6 different vendor PLC’s, HMI, industrial switches, historians, …, and we allowed attendees to play and...
