On 18 October, 2010 a significant event occurred concerning threats to SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) environments. That event is the addition of a zero-day exploit for the RealFlex ...

How much would a government be willing to pay for hacking tools designed to exploit the systems that control oil, gas and water plants? In many cases, they needn't pay much at all. Whilst weaknesses ...

A Russian security company plans to release an upgraded exploit pack for industrial control software that incorporates a raft of new vulnerabilities released by an Italian security researcher. The ...

Luigi Auriemma made news back in March 2011 with the release of 34 zero-day (0-day) SCADA vulnerabilities. This week, he's back in the news with the release of 15 new 0-day advisories, 13 of which ...

The year has opened up with a bang, with security researcher Dillon Beresford taking the latest shot at supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems. Sunday night, Dillon contacted me ...

A new tool from security researchers that came out of work at Digital Bond's S4 conference in January automates password cracking for a common industrial control system. The main trouble with securing ...

The United States' industrial control systems, which run factories, power plants and transportation networks, are vulnerable to remote network attacks due to easily discovered flaws in supervisory ...

The researcher who discovered a hole in a prominent SCADA software package used in China claims that holes in the country’s SCADA systems aren’t uncommon, and blames a lack of transparency for the ...

Is critical infrastructure any more secure than it was a year ago, or five years ago? Well according to three different reports from experts, it doesn’t seem like it. Instead, it seems like critical ...

An Italian researcher has published details of a new batch of unpatched vulnerabilities found in the SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) products from seven different vendors. Assessing ...

A Russian security company plans to release an upgraded exploit pack for industrial control software that incorporates a raft of new vulnerabilities released by an Italian security researcher. A ...