I don’t think it is just me. The number of alerts I have been getting over the last few weeks regarding vulnerabilities in very mainstream industrial control system components seems to be out of control. Here are just a few: April 20th – CISA releases 10 Industrial control system (ICS) advisories. This includes Hitachi/ABB, Rockwell, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]What could go wrong? As we rush headlong to deploy billions of Internet of Things devices with no regard to security, that doesn’t make security problems go away. Security researchers today disclosed nine vulnerabilities affecting implementations of the Domain Name System protocol in popular TCP/IP network communication stacks running on at least 100 million devices. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well that is certainly not a comforting thought. Last month the public water supply in a small town in Florida was hacked. Only PURE DUMB LUCK protected those citizens. Did the hacker use exotic unknown vulnerabilities to compromise the system? No. The city didn’t even have a firewall, was using software that was no longer […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]NSA Director General Paul Nakasone testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee about the recent SolarWinds and Microsoft Exchange hacks. He said that foreign hackers are taking advantage of the Intelligence community’s blind spot – adversaries working INSIDE the United States. Our adversaries can come into the United States, set up shop on the web, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Earlier this month Homeland Security released 4 different advisories for industrial control system vulnerabilities. This comes in the wake of a successful breach of a water treatment plant in Florida. While that hack took advantage of poor cyber hygiene practices (obsolete unpatched software, shared passwords, etc.), it did call attention to the fact that our […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Encrypted Phone Firm Sky ECC “Hacked” by Police Police have arrested 48 people and confiscated 14 tons of Cocaine and over a million Euros, after decrypting a half billion messages and listening in on the bad guys for several weeks. The phone company said that they don’t think the encryption was cracked, but rather, they […]
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