On 18 October, 2010 a significant event occurred concerning threats to SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) environments. That event is the addition of a zero-day exploit for the RealFlex ...

How much would a government be willing to pay for hacking tools designed to exploit the systems that control oil, gas and water plants? In many cases, they needn't pay much at all. Whilst weaknesses ...

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Digital Bond and Rapid7 announced today at the S4 Conference the release of a new Metasploit module to exploit the GE D20 PLC, and a partnership to move ...

A Russian security company plans to release an upgraded exploit pack for industrial control software that incorporates a raft of new vulnerabilities released by an Italian security researcher. The ...

Luigi Auriemma made news back in March 2011 with the release of 34 zero-day (0-day) SCADA vulnerabilities. This week, he's back in the news with the release of 15 new 0-day advisories, 13 of which ...

A new tool from security researchers that came out of work at Digital Bond's S4 conference in January automates password cracking for a common industrial control system. The main trouble with securing ...

Is critical infrastructure any more secure than it was a year ago, or five years ago? Well according to three different reports from experts, it doesn’t seem like it. Instead, it seems like critical ...

The United States' industrial control systems, which run factories, power plants and transportation networks, are vulnerable to remote network attacks due to easily discovered flaws in supervisory ...

MIAMI, Florida --A group of researchers has discovered serious security holes in six top industrial control systems used in critical infrastructure and manufacturing facilities and, thanks to exploit ...

A Russian security company plans to release an upgraded exploit pack for industrial control software that incorporates a raft of new vulnerabilities released by an Italian security researcher. A ...

There’s good news for people who love bad news about the security of industrial control systems. At the SCADA Security Scientific Symposium (S4) in Miami Beach in January, there were a host of new ...