Industrial Control Systems
ICS-CERT: Event Auditing and Log Management
April 30, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
Without properly configured auditing and logging practices, incident response teams often find it difficult to determine the significance of a cybersecurity event. ICS-CERT has provided a collection of resources to assist vendor and asset-owner security teams...
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Are ICS Vendors Really to Blame for Insecure Systems?
April 27, 2012 Added by:Joe Weiss
The implication is that vendors aren’t interested in securing their legacy products. I do know that many ICS vendors supporting the electric industry are frustrated because the utilities may not be required to actually secure these systems to be NERC CIP compliant...
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ICS-CERT: RuggedCom Weak Cryptography Vulnerability
April 27, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
ICS-CERT is aware of a public report of a default backdoor user account with a password with trivial encoding affecting RuggedCom RuggedSwitch and RuggedServer devices using Rugged OS. The vulnerability is exploitable by generating a password from known data about the device...
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Remember Public Cellular Networks in Smart Meter Adoption
April 26, 2012 Added by:Brent Huston
ICS/SCADA owners must strive to clearly identify their needs around cellular technologies, clearly demarcate the requirements for private/segmented/public cellular network use and understand the benefits/issues and threats of what they are utilizing...
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ICS-CERT: What does a Cyber Attack Feel Like?
April 26, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
The free ICS Advanced Cybersecurity training offers step-by-step guidance on network discovery, exploitation, defense, and detection. After the 3 full days of classroom instruction participants are armed with an arsenal of cyber attack and defense tools and techniques...
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ICS-CERT: Social Engineering and SCADA Security
April 24, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
Social engineering attempts can be highly targeted and conducted in a way that is much more difficult to detect than the spam and phishing emails we receive in our inbox. Phone-based social engineering attempts were recently experienced at two or more power distribution companies...
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Analysis of the April 2012 CPU for the Oracle Database
April 23, 2012 Added by:Alexander Rothacker
It’s mid-April, so it’s Oracle CPU fallout time again. This CPU contains 88 fixes. Thirty-three in this CPU are for vulnerabilities that are remotely exploitable without authentication. In other words, anybody on the network can exploit these vulnerabilities...
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ICS-CERT: Siemens Simatic WINCC Multiple Vulnerabilities
April 20, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
ICS-CERT has received reports detailing several vulnerabilities in Siemens SIMATIC WinCC Human-Machine Interface application which could allow an attacker to log on to a system as a user or administrator with the ability to execute arbitrary code or obtain full access to files...
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ICS-CERT: Siemens Scalance X Industrial Ethernet Vulnerability
April 18, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
Exploitation of the vulnerability allows an attacker to perform malicious actions which may lead to a denial of service condition or possible arbitrary code execution. These actions may ultimately impact the process environment in which the system is deployed...
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All the Lights Will Not Go Out in a Cyber Attack
April 17, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
One of the biggest threats that you hear is that hackers could take out the power grid and all the power would be shut off. America would be thrown back to the power stone age in the flick of a switch (or a series of SCADA exploits). But is this true? The answer is no...
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ICS-CERT: Certec WebMI2ADS Multiple Vulnerabilities
April 17, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
Researcher Luigi Auriemma has identified multiple vulnerabilities in Certec’s WebMI2ADS application. Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) or could lead to data leakage...
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ICS-CERT: Koyo Ecom100 Multiple Vulnerabilities
April 16, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
ICS-CERT is aware of a public report of multiple vulnerabilities with proof-of-concept exploit code affecting the Koyo ECOM100 Ethernet Module. A brute force password cracking tool has been released that targets a weak authentication vulnerability in the ECOM series modules...
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Information Sharing and the ICS-ISAC
April 15, 2012 Added by:Chris Blask
The topic of information sharing has become one of the most interesting in finding “The Solution” to ICS security. Aspects securing industrial control systems – including timing, technology and workforce – suggest that answers lie less in technology and more in Robert’s Rules...
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Misconceptions about Aurora: Why Isn't More Being Done
April 13, 2012 Added by:Joe Weiss
The 2007 Aurora test at the Idaho National Laboratory demonstrated that if someone can gain access to a controller, the attacker will cause physical damage. As Aurora is a gap in protection of the electric grid, one way to prevent an Aurora attack is by hardware mitigation...
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ICS-CERT: MICROSYS PROMOTIC Vulnerability POC
April 13, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
Researcher Luigi Auriemma identified and released proof of concept code (POC) for a use after free vulnerability in the MICROSYS, spol. s r.o. PROMOTIC application wgich may result in adverse conditions ranging from the corruption of valid data to the execution of arbitrary code...
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ICS-CERT: Siemens Scalence S Multiple Vulnerabilities
April 12, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
Siemens has reported two security vulnerabilities in the Scalance S Security Module firewall - a brute-force credential guessing vulnerability in the web configuration and a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the Profinet DCP protocol stack...
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