Update 2 (May 15, 2017) : New variants of Wannacry Ransomware continue to attack individuals and organizations. The original version and one updated version were luckily be able to be stopped from spreading, due to a kill switch that was found by a security researcher accidentally. Now victims number in the hundreds of thousands, all … Read more
Nov 29,2016– The Internet of Things (IoT) is a growing phenomenon, where several thousands of devices such as webcams, CCTV cameras, displays, switches, routers and many other “smart” devices are connected to the internet. Typically every such connected device has its own IP address or is in a range of IP addresses that can be … Read more
Aug 30, 2016– ICS-CERT has informed that a new Whitepaper has been released by the National Cybersecurity & Communications Integration Center that details how Windows Management Instrumentation can be used by attackers to perform system reconnaissance,antivirus and virtual machine (VM) detection, code execution, lateral movement, persistence, and data theft. This whitepaper will show how to … Read more
July 4, 2016– Industrial Cybersecurity suddenly became very important last week when it was reported that there are fake Rockwell automation files floating around on the internet, that attempt to install ransomware to unsuspecting users of Rockwell Control Systems (Allen Bradley series of PLCs). Among malware infections, ransom ware is the worst kind to infect … Read more
June 24, 2016– A new cybersecurity vulnerability has been discovered regarding Rockwell Automation Allen Bradley Stratix industrial networking switches, as reported by the ICS-CERT website. This vulnerability could be exploited remotely and puts Control systems using these switches at risk, unless patched immediately with a Firmware update fix released now. According to Rockwell Automation, the … Read more
