Pierluigi Paganini
November 27, 2014
The industrial supplier Siemens has patched two critical vulnerabilities in its solutions, Siemens WinCC application in use must be updated urgently. The industrial supplier Siemens has patched two critical vulnerabilities in the Siemens application that bad actors are exploiting in the wild. Siemens has also informed its customers that its researchers are already working on updates […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 15, 2014
Last ICS-CERT MONITOR report reveals that hackers had access to the systems of an unnamed manufacturing organization for several months. According to the ICS-CERT MONITOR report, which summarizes the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team’s (ICS-CERT) activities between May â August 2014, threat actors had access to the systems of an unnamed manufacturing organization for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2014
ICS-CERT issued a security advisory for the existence of vulnerabilities in a variety of Schneider Electric StruxureWare SCADA Expert ClearSCADA versions. According to a recent advisory issued by the ICS-CERT (ICSA-14-259-01) several Electricâs StruxureWare SCADA Expert ClearSCADA are affected by different vulnerabilities. The independent researcher Aditya Sood has discovered a weak hashing algorithm and CSRF vulnerability in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 10, 2014
ICS-CERT issued an alert for the presence of a hardcoded password flaw in Daktronics Vanguard highway dynamic message sign (DMS) configuration software. Security experts have discovered a new flaw in Daktronicsâ Vanguard software which could be remotely exploited by hackers to hack electronic road signs. A week ago, it was reported that Daktronicsâ Vanguard dynamic highway message sign (DMS) configuration […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 16, 2014
Security experts at Rapid7 firm have public disclosed a series of flaws affecting several thousands of critical infrastructure using Yokogawa software. Several thousands of critical infrastructure may still be vulnerable to SCADA flaws public disclosed this week. It has been estimated that more than 7,600 different chemicals, power and petrochemical plants are affected by the bugs disclosed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2013
The ICS-CERT issued a new Monitor report that revealed a surge of brute force attacks against control systems mainly belonging to the energy sector. The ICS-CERT issued a new Monitor report that revealed an intensification for brute force attacks against control systems mainly belonging to the energy sector. The ICS-CERT received notification for more than 200 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 16, 2013
Stuxnet first and news of countless zero-day vulnerabilities in the wild have strengthened the idea that citizens security is constantly menaced by group of hackers that for different purposes are able to inflict serious damages to the structures that surround us. Critical infrastructures represent privileged targets for very different actors such as cyber terrorists or […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 08, 2012
It’s been long debated the need to protect critical infrastructures from cyber attacks, cyber threats could hit foreign countries causing loss of human lives identically to a conventional attack. Donât forget that similar attacks con be organized by state-sponsored hackers or cyber criminals with the different purposes, target destroying or cyber espionage. Emergency Response Teams […]
