Today through August 31st the S4x17 Call For Presentations is open. It is the place to present advanced topics in ICS and related fields to an audience will get it. The process is real simple. Send an email with 2 or 3 paragraphs on your session idea to...
Tomorrow we will be officially opening the S4x17 Call For Presentations (CFP), so I thought it would be the perfect time to highlight one of the S4 Classics to show what a S4 Technical Deep Dive looks like. Watch how Ralph goes through the code/logic in detail so...
A great 22 minute presentation by Ralph Langner of The Langner Group at S4x16. He provides some very specific examples of a cyber / physical attack on nuclear power plants. For example, a cyber attack on all of the feedwater systems. What is the key to this type of...
We decided to put the IRONGATE video from last week’s S4xEurope out first. There is no new big reveal over the information put out in the FireEye article, but Rob provides a lot of context that makes it easier to understand. He also focuses on unanswered...
We were thrilled to add a session by Rob Caldwell / FireEye to next week’s S4xEurope agenda when we learned in April about the ICS malware they have named IRONGATE. This is the second biggest ICSsec story of the year to date, albeit a distant second from the...
General Hayden gave the Day 1 Keynote at S4x16 and really brought it. He had strong and often controversial opinions that were well defended. He pointed out where he disagreed with President Obama, FBI Director Comey and most of Europe. Check it out below or...
Billy Rios of Whitescope gives a classic S4 Technical Deep Dive on a medical device called an Infusion Pump at S4x16 in Miami South Beach. He opens them up, shows the hardware, connections between boards, attack paths, default credentials, rogue firmware upload and...
I had the chance to interview Marty Edwards who leads the ICS cyber security effort at the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The first 6 minutes introduce Marty and clarify what ICS-CERT does (it’s much more than a CERT). 6:50: What are ICS-CERT’s...
We will have a series of articles coming soon on the new Siemens S7 PLC security features, and I’m pleased to announce that Oliver Narr of Siemens will join representatives from GE, Rockwell Automation and Schneider Electric on our NextGen PLC Security panel at...
Register for S4xEurope, June 9-10 in Vienna The latest and likely last addition to the S4xEurope agenda is a session I’ve wanted ever since seeing Tyler Williams from Shell present at the ARC Industry Forum in early 2015. It is a very honest session on...
