Today we posted the video of Corey Thuen’s S4x15 Technical Session on the insecure by design Progressive Snapshot dongle. Progressive responded with a statement to a Forbes reporter: if an individual has credible evidence of a potential vulnerability...
While at S4, Digital Bond Labs had a security advisory published by ICS-CERT (see ICSA-15-013-03). One thing that we tried to do differently with releasing information on the issue this time around was to reach out to vendors that were obviously using...
LtCol William Hagestad Jr. of Red Dragon Rising brought his expertise on China and Iran to ICSage. The session includes briefings on Iranian and Chinese offensive cyber security efforts with some interesting Q&A on both....
Bryan Singer and Lily Glick start off the S4 Technical Sessions with a great presentation they named The Pragmatic Pwn of ICS. They focus on the engineering aspects of a cyber attack and the defense of a process using a distillation column (making 80...
Here is my short, 13-minute introduction to S4x15. After going into a brief review of S4x12, x13 and x14, it covers the theme of S4x15 and where ICS security research is heading. https://vimeo.com/117940030/ Assume an attacker has gained a presence on the ICS, such as...
Stephen had an article yesterday on the ICS Village / Capture The Flag (CTF) competition at S4x15. We also will be putting up a page with more info on the flags, techniques and pcaps in the next week. In the meantime, check out the interview with the winning team....
This year at S4x15, Digital Bond set out to create an ICS Capture The Flag, or CTF. Flags were created to simulate real world situations that an attacker would encounter if he targeted an ICS. By the end of the CTF, there were over 30 teams playing. Most of the...
We have posted the presentations from Tuesday’s Operations Technology Day (OTDay) of S4x15. The purpose of OTDay is to provide very practical information on how to apply mission critical IT technology and processes to OT. There were 150 people in attendance for...
This is the companion article to our 15 Reasons to be Pessimistic about ICS Security in 2015 that we ran on Friday. On Wednesday I’ll lay out what to look forward to in 2015 based on these two contrasting articles. Many of the items below come from experiences...
If this is too depressing, wait for Monday’s article 15 Reasons to be Optimistic about ICS Security in 2015. Almost all ICS protocols are still insecure by design with no end in sight. Access to ICS = Compromise.Most potentially influential organization, US...
