Abhisam informs us that its Industrial Cybersecurity e-learning course is now available online. This course can be taken on a new e-learning portal, prettygoodcourses.com, which has a range of free and paid courses. More courses are being added every week. There are free courses, like the one on Hydrogen Sulfide and other popular paid ones […]
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The US Industrial Control System Computer Emergency Response Team (ICS CERT) has released an updated report regarding the inner workings of the TRITON / HatMan malware that affected Triconex Safety Instrumented Systems last year, at an unnamed plant (probably in Saudi Arabia as per multiple sources). It now appears that the malware is not a […]
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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 […]
Continue ReadingOct 29, 2014– After the discovery of Stuxnet in 2010, there seemed to be a lull in the rate of discovery of malware that specifically targeted industrial systems. If you recollect Stuxnet was the first really widespread, sophisticated and highly targeted malware that was directed at Siemens Control Systems including the SIMATIC range of PLCs. […]
Continue ReadingApril 07, 2011 – All of us have heard about Stuxnet, the terrible cyber worm that is supposed to be targeting only Siemens PLCs used in plants all over the world.If you’ve not heard of it, here’s an excellent report. Here is a video from a TED talk, given by Ralph Langner, a German Industrial […]
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