Blog Posts Tagged with "ICS-CERT"
ICS-CERT: Risk Management for the Electricity Sector
May 14, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
The DOE collaborated with the NIST and NERC to release a second draft of the Electricity Sector Cybersecurity Risk Management Process guideline, designed with the idea that cybersecurity risk management should be driven by the business needs of the company...
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ICS-CERT: Progea Movicon Memory Corruption Vulnerability
May 11, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
Security researcher Dillon Beresford of IXIA has identified a memory corruption vulnerability in the Progea Movicon application. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote attacker to read an invalid memory address resulting in a denial of service...
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ICS-CERT: WellinTech KingSCADA Insecure Password Encryption
May 10, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
Researchers Alexandr Polyakov and Alexey Sintsov from DSecRG identified an unsecure password encryption vulnerability in WellinTech KingSCADA application. When KingSCADA OPCServer and OPCClient are not on the same node, a remote attacker may obtain passwords to the system...
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Join ICS-CERT on the US-CERT Secure Portal
May 09, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
One of the best kept secrets in the critical infrastructure world is the US-CERT secure portal, a web-based platform that provides a mechanism for secure, unclassified information exchange between government agencies and the private sector asset owners and operators...
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ICS-CERT: Planning for a Cyber Incident?
May 08, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
Organizations without an existing incident response capability should consider establishing one. To aid control systems owners and operators, the CSSP has prepared a Recommended Practice: Developing an Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Incident Response Capability...
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US Gas Pipeline Companies Under Major Cyber Attack
May 07, 2012 Added by:Headlines
“Analysis of the malware and artifacts associated with these cyber attacks has positively identified this activity as related to a single campaign from a single source. It goes on to broadly describe a sophisticated 'spear-phishing' campaign..."
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ICS-CERT: Getting Started Securing Industrial Assets
May 04, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
Over the past year significant discoveries in the areas of adversarial capabilities have identified that many companies across the 18 critical infrastructure and key resources (CIKR) are struggling to cope with the growing threats. Efforts have been taken to defend critical assets...
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ICS-CERT: The Role of Fusion Centers
May 03, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
ICS-CERT recommends that industrial control systems owners and operators contact their local fusion center to better understand the role of their fusion center in supporting the private sector in critical infrastructure protection and cybersecurity...
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ICS-CERT: WellinTech KingView DLL Hijack Vulnerability
May 02, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
Independent researcher Carlos Mario Peñagos Hollman identified a DLL Hijack vulnerability in WellinTech’s KingView application. WellinTech has created a patch that resolves the vulnerability. Mr. Hollman has tested the patch and verified that it resolves the vulnerability...
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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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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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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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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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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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