Operators at Iran's Natanz nuclear facility might well have caught Stuxnet before it spread and sabotaged operations at the plant if they had been watching the wires for anomalous network traffic, a ...
Like Cliff Claven (the jovial factoid-sharing postal carrier of the syndicated television comedy, "Cheers"), I'm easily enthralled by trivia. For example, I bet you didn't know that Hells Canyon, ...
Computerized process-control systems run some of the most critical infrastructures in the U.S., such as power utilities, water treatment plants, chemical plants and mass-transit systems. Until ...
In this second of two reports, we continue with a summary of the January 2006 BlackHat Federal Conference presentation by David Maynor, who was at that time an R&D research engineer for Internet ...
Within the energy industry, networked equipment can help enterprises make more informed business decisions, reduce environmental impacts, provide better customer service and improve safety. But ...
Over the past several years, the City of Orlando Public Works Department has installed extensive high-technology upgrades and automation systems in its three wastewater treatment plants, vastly ...
No matter the industry, the success of companies is becoming dependent on how effectively they are able to deploy and manage IT resources. This integrated approach to technology increasingly applies ...
Advanced Control Systems, along with fiber optic partner PCS, Inc., has completed a three-year network installation project with the Marietta Board of Lights and Water to provide a turnkey system with ...
A renowned ICS/SCADA security researcher has discovered a surprising twist in cyberattacks hitting plant floor networks: traditional banking Trojan malware posing as legitimate ICS software updates ...
The Internet of Things needs technology to connect people to machines and processes. From the operators on the plant floor to the execs in the C-suites, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA ...
In 2015 and 2016, hackers caused massive power outages in Ukraine during one of the coldest times of the year. The December 2015 attack, which left 225,000 Ukrainians without electricity for the ...
In a slide presentation from the January 2006 BlackHat Federal Conference, David Maynor, was who was at that time an R&D research engineer for Internet Systems Security (ISS) X-Force and colleague ...