7-Technologies IGSS 8 ODBC Server Remote Heap Corruption

Overview ICS-CERT has received a report from independent security researcher Jeremy Brown that a remote heap corruption vulnerability exists in IGSS Interactive Graphical SCADA System Version 8 from 7-Technologies 7T. 7T has verified the vulnerability and has developed a patch. Affected Products...

Virus Experts Warn of Stuxnet Variant "Duqu"

Virus researchers at Symantec Corp. have discovered a variant of the Stuxnet worm, dubbed Duqu, that is designed to steal information about industrial control systems. Symantec said the malware, which has turned up on more than one customers’ network, could be used to gather data for a future...

National Cyber Security Bulletin on Anonymous

National Cyber Security Bulletin on Anonymous DHS has analyzed the likelihood of Anonymous attacking industrial control systems ICS after the hacktivist group showed such intentions earlier this year. "Assessment of Anonymous Threat to Control Systems" that was drafted by the National Cybersecuri...

National Cyber Security Bulletin on Anonymous

National Cyber Security Bulletin on Anonymous DHS has analyzed the likelihood of Anonymous attacking industrial control systems ICS after the hacktivist group showed such intentions earlier this year. "Assessment of Anonymous Threat to Control Systems " that was drafted by the National...

Department of Homeland Security Releases Cyber Security Evaluation Tool (CSET)

Department of Homeland Security Releases Cyber Security Evaluation Tool CSET The Cyber Security Evaluation Tool CSET is a Department of Homeland Security DHS product that assists organizations in protecting their key national cyber assets. It was developed under the direction of the DHS National...

Siemens FactoryLink Multiple ActiveX Vulnerabilities

Overview ICS-CERT originally released Advisory ICSA-11-343-01P on the US-CERT secure portal on December 09, 2011. This web page release was delayed to allow users time to download and install the update. Researcher Kuang-Chun Hung of Taiwan’s Information and Communication Security Technology Cent...

ARC Informatique PcVue HMI/SCADA ActiveX Vulnerabilities

Overview This Advisory is a follow-up to the Alert, “ICS-ALERT-11-271-01 - ARC Informatique PcVue HMI/SCADA ActiveX Vulnerabilities.” ICS-CERT is aware of publicly and privately disclosed reports of four vulnerabilities in ARC Informatique’s PcVue application. These vulnerabilities include:...

Evidence of Infected SCADA Systems Washes Up in Support Forums

While security experts and lawmakers debate the seriousness of cyber threats to critical infrastructure, one security researcher says that evidence that viruses and spyware already have access to industrial control systems is hiding in plain sight: on Web based user support forums. Close to a doz...

Researcher Will Demo Crippling Siemens Attack Using Metasploit

For years, there’s been an argument that the sophistication of industrial control systems is enough to keep script kiddies – or low-skilled hackers – away. Well, so much for that. Researcher Ralph Langer says that he will use a presentation at an upcoming security conference in Washington D.C. to...

Don't Say I Never Told You: Researcher Warned Congress Of Stuxnet Variants 10 Months Ago

Stuxnet may have been super sophisticated cyber weapon deployed by state actors, but future generations of the malware will be available to run of the mill script kiddies, a noted expert on security and industrial control systems has warned in a letter to the U.S. Congress ten months ago. Ralph...

Stuxnet Part Deux? US Officials Warn of Stuxnet Variants

Officials at the Department of Homeland Security warned lawmakers this week that we may not have seen the last of Stuxnet, the infamous worm that wound its way through SCADA systems just over a year ago. In a statement published on Tuesday, Sean P. McGurk and Roberta Stempfley of the DHS’ Office ...

Siemens Warns of Password Vulnerability in SCADA Software

Siemens AG issued an advisory to customers on Tuesday warning of a weakness in its Simatic S7 programmable logic controllers that could allow a remote attacker to intercept and decipher passwords, or change the configuration of the devices. Siemens advised customers to restrict physical and logic...

AzeoTech DAQFactory Stack Overflow

Overview This advisory is a follow-up to the alert titled “ICS-ALERT-11-256-02—AzeoTech DAQFactory Stack Overflow” that was published September 13, 2011, on the ICS-CERT web page. ICS-CERT is aware of a public report of one stack overflow vulnerability with proof-of-concept POC exploit code...

Critical Infrastructure Vulnerable to Holes in Chinese SCADA Software

The U.S. CERT has issued a security advisory firms using industrial control systems software from the Chinese firm Sunway in the U.S. after a researcher discovered remotely exploitable holes that could be used to knock out or take control systems running the company’s software. The ICS-CERT, the...

Video Presentation on Stuxnet by Hungry Beast

Video Presentation on Stuxnet by Hungry Beast In June last year, a computer virus called Stuxnet was discovered lurking in the data banks of power plants, traffic control systems and factories around the world. Pandora's box has been opened; on the new battlefield the aggressors are anonymous, th...

Hardware Vendor Offers Backdoor with Every Product

IT administrators know there’s nothing more frustrating than losing administrative access to your network equipment. But Allied Telesis, a Japan-based maker of switches, routers and other networking devices, has a fix: guaranteed backdoors for every product. That revelation comes after a support...

Siemens Working On Fix For 'Security Gaps' In Logic Controllers

Siemens AG said on Tuesday that it was talking to its customers about what it acknowledged were “security gaps” in its Programmable Logic Controllers PLCs, after an NSS Labs researcher disclosed the discovery of what he described as serious security holes in the company’s industrial control...

Researcher Says Siemens Downplaying Serious SCADA Holes

Dillon Beresford, the NSS Labs researcher who disclosed serious holes in industrial control system software from Siemens says the company is downplaying the seriousness of the vulnerabilities in its public statements, and that a supposed “fix” for the vulnerabilities is inadequate. In a message...

Wonderware Information Server

Overview ICS-CERT Advisory ICSA-11-195-01P was originally released to the US-CERT Portal on July 14, 2011. This web page release was delayed to allow users sufficient time to download and install the update. Independent security researchers Billy Rios and Terry McCorkle have identified a...

Stuxnet Worm Revealed – Installation, Injection and Mitigation !

In the videos below, Joel Langill deconstructs each part of the worm to show it in action. In the second video you'll see the best practices that InfoSec Institute uses we have a training course dedicated to SCADA control systems which includes a robust Stuxnet lab to mitigate this type of...