Posts for category: ICS Weekly Executive Summaries

ICS Summary for Week of September 1, 2017

Cobot Exploitation Could Lead to Security Nightmare In a recent report, IOActive researchers have found that Cobots (industrial collaborative robots) have a slew of vulnerabilities that can cause ...

ICS Executive Summary for Week of August 18, 2017

US Pipeline Systems Need Better Cybersecurity [caption id="attachment_5585" align="alignnone" width="1024"] (Source: Bilfinger SE)[/caption] Researchers at Ponemon Institute were sponsored by ...

ICS Executive Summary for Week of August 11, 2017

Solar Panels Vulnerable to Attacks Dutch researcher, Willem Westerhof, revealed that he found a great number of vulnerabilities in solar panels widely used across Europe.  Because the power grids ...

ICS Executive Summary for Week of August 4, 2017

DEF CON Attendees Hack Voting Machines in 90 Mintutes At DEF CON 2017, the annual conference for hacking professionals and enthusiasts, a new event took place called Voting Machine Hacker Village. ...

ICS Executive Summary for Week of July 28, 2017

Patches Needed for Nuclear Radiation Monitoring Devices At Black Hat 2017, researcher Ruben Santamarta of IOActive delivered a white paper on a number of vulnerabilities found in certain ...

ICS Executive Summary for Week of July 21, 2017

Authentication Bypass Vulnerability Found in Siemens SiPass Integrated Server Siemens has patched vulnerabilities found in their SiPass integrated server.  Siemens SiPass integrated is an access ...

ICS Executive Summary for Week of July 14, 2017

Template Injection Attacks Found Targeting Critical Infrastructure  Cisco’s research team, Talos, has released a report on a current trend of cyber attacks on the energy sector.  Since May ...

ICS Executive Summary for Week of July 7, 2017

Connection Found Between NotPetya and BlackEnergy APT Group Similarities were found between the recent NotPetya (also known as ExPetr and Diskcoder.C) outbreak and the attacks on Ukrainian ...

Weekly Executive Summary for Week June 16, 2017

ICS Malware Linked to Power Outages A new analysis done by U.S. critical infrastructure security firm, Dragos Inc., and Slovakian antivirus software maker, ESET, details malware specifically ...

Weekly Executive Summary for Week of June 2, 2017

Trend Micro Report Shows SCADA HMI Vulnerabilities Take 150 Days to Patch Trend Micro and Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) published a report on May 23, 2017 found that vendors for Human Machine ...