Cooper Power Systems Cybectec DNP3 Master OPC Server Improper Input Validation

OVERVIEW Adam Crain of Automatak and independent researcher Chris Sistrunk have identified an improper input validation vulnerability in Cooper Power Systems Cybectec DNP3 Master OPC Server software. Cooper Power Systems has discontinued the OPC server and recommends that customers use the SMP...

Cooper Power Systems Improper Input Validation Vulnerability

OVERVIEW Adam Crain of Automatak and independent researcher Chris Sistrunk have identified an improper input validation vulnerability in the Cooper Power Systems SMP Gateway DNP3 protocol components. Cooper Power Systems has produced a new firmware version that mitigates this vulnerability. Coope...

NSA misused PRISM - Spied on Al Jazeera, bugged UN headquarters and used for personal spying

Before NSA said that they has zero tolerance for willful violations of the agency's authorities, but NSA had violated privacy rules on thousands of occasions. According to documents seen by SPIEGEL, Arab news broadcaster Al Jazeera was spied on by the National Security Agency. The US intelligence...

njRAT Attacks Spike Against Middle East High-Value Targets

Government agencies, telecom and energy organizations in the Middle East are being targeted by espionage malware known as njRAT. The remote access Trojan is thorough in its data-stealing capabilities. Beyond dropping a keylogger, variants are capable of accessing a computer’s camera, stealing...

ICS, SCADA Attacks Targeted and Disruptive

Honeypots and honeynets have long been used as enticements to lure hackers into a false network in order to study attacks. While long a favorite of many high-end enterprises and security researchers studying attacks against traditional IT infrastructures, a number of industrial control system...

Politics, Uncertainty Slowing Down U.S. Response to Cyber Threats

WASHINGTON–The shift in the last few years to cyberespionage and online attacks against the nation’s critical infrastructure have left the United States government lagging behind, and “a day late and a dollar short”, the former director of the National Security Agency said. The ongoing campaigns...

Schneider Electric Vijeo Citect, CitectSCADA, PowerLogic SCADA Vulnerability

Overview Schneider Electric has identified an XML external entity vulnerability in Vijeo Citect, CitectSCADA, and PowerLogic SCADA applications. Timur Yunusov, Alexey Osipov, and Ilya Karpov of Positive Technologies reported the vulnerability directly to Schneider Electric. Schneider Electric has...

Watering Hole Attack Hits US Department of Labor Website

The United States Department of Labor website is the latest high-profile government site to fall victim to a watering hole attack. Researchers at a number of security companies reported today that the site was hosting malware and redirecting visitors to a site hosting the Poison Ivy remote access...

Alstom Grid S1 Agile Improper Authorization

OVERVIEW This advisory provides mitigation details for a vulnerability affecting the Alstom Grid MiCOM S1 Agile and S1 Studio Software. Note: Alstom Grid MiCOM S1 Studio Software is its own software suite. A user could have MiCOM S1 Studio Software from a different vendor. This advisory only...

Wonderware Intelligence Tableau Server Ruby on Rails Improper Input Validation (Update A)

Overview This updated advisory was orignally posted to the US-CERT secure Portal library on February 5, 2013, and is now being released to the ICS-CERT Web page. Mitigation details for multiple vulnerabilities that impact third-party software integrated into the Invensys Wonderware Intelligence...

Department of Energy Compromised in Sophisticated Attack

Hackers targeted and compromised computer networks at United States Department of Energy headquarters in Washington DC two weeks ago, according to a report published by the Washington Free Beacon earlier this morning. DoE officials confirmed the attack and are currently investigating the incident...

Energy Department networks hit by major Cyber Attack

The Computer networks of Energy Department were attacked by unknown hackers in a major cyber attack two weeks ago and personal information on several hundred employees was compromised. The Washington Free Beacon reports that, FBI agents are investigating the attacks and 14 computer servers and 20...

Energy Department networks hit by major Cyber Attack

The Computer networks of Energy Department were attacked by unknown hackers in a major cyber attack two weeks ago and personal information on several hundred employees was compromised. The Washington Free Beacon reports that, FBI agents are investigating the attacks and 14 computer servers and 20...

Galil RIO-47100 Improper Input Validation

Overview This advisory provides mitigation details for a vulnerability affecting the Galil RIO-47100 “Pocket PLC.” Researcher Jon Christmas of Solera Networks has identified an improper validation vulnerability in the Galil RIO-47100 PLC, which can result in a loss of availability. Galil has...

Operation Red October : Cyber Espionage campaign against many Governments

A new sensational discovered has been announced by Kaspersky Lab's Global Research & Analysis Team result of an investigation after several attacks hit computer networks of various international diplomatic service agencies. A new large scale cyber-espionage operation has been discovered, named Re...

Operation Red October : Cyber Espionage campaign against many Governments

A new sensational discovered has been announced by Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research & Analysis Team result of an investigation after several attacks hit computer networks of various international diplomatic service agencies. A new large scale cyber-espionage operation has been discovered, named Re...

Schneider Electric MiCOM S1 Studio Improper Authorization Vulnerability

Overview This advisory provides mitigation details for a vulnerability affecting the Schneider Electric MiCOM S1 Studio Software. Independent researcher Michael Toecker of Digital Bond has identified an improper authorization vulnerability in the MiCOM S1 Studio Software using the Microsoft Attac...

Energy Manufacturer Also Victimized by IE Zero Day in Watering Hole Attack

This week’s watering hole attack exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer was not limited to the influential Council on Foreign Relations site. A Metasploit contributor said an energy manufacturer’s website has been serving malware related to the attack since September. Researcher...

ENISA Outlines Security Regulations for EU Smart Grid Expansion

The European Union has set a series of ambitious goals for itself: by 2020, the 27 member states expect to collectively use 20 percent renewable energy, reduce CO2 emissions by 20 percent, and increase energy efficiency by 20 percent. In order to accomplish these goals, Europe will need to perfor...

Kaspersky Lab Developing Secure Operating System for SCADA

Eugene Kaspersky is working with his engineers at Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab to create a secure-by-design OS for ICS. In an interview Kaspersky said " It's true no one else ever tried to make a secure operating system. This may sound weird because of the many efforts Microsoft, Apple and...