The world’s most advance industrial malware – malware that is designed to go after industrial control systems in places like power plants – called PIPEDREAM, may already have infiltrated some critical infrastructure control systems, waiting to unleash who knows what. Global business advisory firm Ankura said that they are concerned that PIPEDREAM cannot be stopped […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced the final version of a special publication focusing on helping manufacturers improve the cybersecurity of their industrial control system (ICS) environments. The guide, titled Protecting Information and System Integrity in Industrial Control System Environments: Cybersecurity for the Manufacturing Sector, is a collaboration between NIST and many […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apple Offers Fixes For Broken iPhone 12s While not exactly a security issue, Apple is offering to fix defective iPhone 12s that were made between October 2020 and April 2021 and which have a defective receiver module component. That is mighty kind of them since every single one of them is still under warranty and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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]BBC and others are reporting that a German steel mill was hacked. The report came not from the news media or the mill, but rather the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). As a result, not a lot of details are known, but the posting are new, so perhaps more information will come out […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Seems far fetched, but it is not. Of course, it is expensive. It took Stephen Hilt almost two weeks and $400. Of course that is the “quantity one” price. With a little work and volume, the price would go down. Dark Reading is reporting that Stephen, who works for the industrial control security firm Digital […]
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