“The sad truth is that Shodan is just scratching the surface of unprotected or misconfigured SCADA devices… And, of course, the search engine merely finds systems. It doesn’t expose the myriad of bad ...

The ease with which TCP/IP enables one to connect networks has been a huge boon for the power generation industry. Far-flung operations can be hooked up to the network and controlled remotely. And ...

Many leading industrial and governmental network infrastructures employ supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and distributed control systems (DCS) to automate, monitor and control crucial ...

The U.S. currently faces a growing threat from cyber-attacks against its critical infrastructure (CI) vital to our modern society. Many understand this growing threat but don’t know the origins of a ...

One of the most significant contributions can be, as Jyothsna Devi says, the integration of SCADA systems with IoT and enterprise systems. In industrial automation Supervisory Control and Data ...

Recently I was conducting some research on critical infrastructure security for the next version of my book, the Cyber Commander’s eHandbook. During that work, I repeatedly encountered a particular ...

The warning came in the form of an ICS-CERT Alert, published on October 28. The group, which is part of US-CERT, warns that “multiple independent security researchers” have reported using SHODAN to ...

As utilities become more interconnected, and increasingly reliant on remote communications capabilities including automated metering, their elderly supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) ...

The security of critical infrastructure is in the spotlight again this week after a researcher released attack code that can exploit several vulnerabilities found in systems used at oil-, gas- and ...

A security researcher has published code that could be used to take control of computers used to manage industrial machinery, potentially giving hackers a back door into utility companies, water ...

Our critical infrastructure is an attractive target for enemy nations, terrorist groups, or even run-of-the-mill cyber criminals, and many security experts believe that it is not remotely protected ...