Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU Denial of Service

OVERVIEW Arnaud Ebalard from Agence Nationale de la Sécurité des Systèmes d’Information ANSSI has reported a denial-of-service DoS vulnerability in Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU. Siemens produced a new firmware version that mitigates this vulnerability and then reported it to NCCIC/ICS-CERT. This...

Digi International Gateways Vulnerable to Heartbleed

Wireless Web mesh gateways used everywhere from industrial control environments to home area networks are vulnerable to the Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability. The Industrial Control System Computer Emergency Response Team ICS-CERT issued an advisory Thursday warning SCADA and ICS managers with Dig...

Hacking Traffic Systems for Fun and Chaos

It has been a running joke in the tech industry for years that the hacking scenes in movies are, well, a joke. Hackers in hoodies pushing a few keys and taking down the power grid or causing massive traffic pileups by turning all the stoplights green at once. While those scenes provide endless...

Siemens Update on Heartbleed Patches in ICS, SCADA

Industrial control equipment manufacturer Siemens has produced a security update that mitigates the OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability in its eLAN systems and now its WinCC OA supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA software as well. The company is continuing to work on patches to resolve th...

OpenICS ICS Protocol Decoder Builds Data Dictionaries

Industrial control system security has been called archaic, laughable and even non-existent. Most ICS and SCADA systems weren’t built with the Internet in mind, much less security, but yet they are at the forefront of manufacturing, building automation and critical infrastructure operations...

ICS-CERT Warns of Heartbleed Vulnerabilities in Siemens Gear

A number of ICS products from Siemens and Innominate are vulnerable to the OpenSSL heartbleed flaw, some of which do not have updates available yet. The list of products affected by the heartbleed vulnerability continues to grow by the day, with OpenVPN being one of the latest. A researcher on...

Cyber Intelligence Asia 2014: CERTs and Industrial Security

In March I spoke at Cyber Intelligence Asia 2014, where CERTs from most Asians countries were presented. The fact is that only a few CERTs are now dealing in some way with industrial security, ICS and SCADA matters. One of the best of those is CERT of Japan, which is doing a great job here, and...

Siemens Ruggedcom Addresses BEAST Flaw in WiMax Products

The BEAST attack on some TLS implementations made major news when it was disclosed, showing that attackers could intercept and decrypt SSL-protected sessions in real time, breaking a significant portion of the confidentiality model of the protocol. Vendors rushed to patch and implement mitigation...

Advantech WebAccess DBVisitor.dll ChartThemeConfig SQL Injection

This module exploits a SQL injection vulnerability found in Advantech WebAccess 7.1. The vulnerability exists in the DBVisitor.dll component, and can be abused through malicious requests to the ChartThemeConfig web service. This module can be used to extract the site and project usernames and...

Patch Available for Schneider Electric Serial Modbus Driver

Schneider Electric, a leading provider of industrial control systems, recently patched a remotely exploitable vulnerability in a driver found in 11 of its products. The Industrial Control Systems Computer Emergency Response Team ICS-CERT released an advisory yesterday alerting users to the...

ICS Vulnerabilities Afffect Critical Infrastructure Security

Industrial control systems manufacturer, Siemens, has released new versions of its SIMATIC S7-1200 CPU family, resolving six security vulnerabilities in that product, and its SIMATIC S7-1200 PLC programmable logic controller, resolving an addition two vulnerabilities there. These patches are...

Is It Time for Certified ICS Security Specialists?

The information security field is full of certifications – CompTIA, GIAC, CHE, ISC2 CISSP, CISM, with a vast number of areas and directions within these families. In the industrial space, the most “unsecured” enterprise sector compared to well-established information security practice in most...

Schneider Electric Patches SCADA, ICS Security Vulnerabilities

The Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team ICS-CERT last week issued advisories warning of serious vulnerabilities in Schneider Electric SCADA gear. Schneider Electric is a supplier of energy management control products that are used in a number of critical industries in North...

OpenSSL Vulnerability

OVERVIEW This advisory is a follow-up to the updated alert titled ICS-ALERT-14-099-01E Situational Awareness Alert for OpenSSL Vulnerability that was published April 29, 2014, on the NCCIC/ICS-CERT web site. The OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability was independently identified by both Neel Mehta of...

Yokogawa Multiple Products Vulnerabilities

OVERVIEW Yokogawa reports that several buffer overflow vulnerabilities affect several of its products. Juan Vazquez of Rapid7 Inc.,Rapid7 Inc., http://www.rapid7.com, web site last accessed May 13, 2014. and independent researcher Julian Vilas Diaz reported to CERT/CC that they identified several...

Attacking ICS Systems 'Like Hacking in the 1980s'

PUNTA CANA–Here’s how nuts the world of ICS security is: Jonathan Pollet, a security consultant who specializes in ICS systems, was at a Texas amusement park recently and the ride he was waiting for was malfunctioning. The operator told him the ride used a Siemens PLC as part of the control syste...

Electric Cybersecurity Regulations Have Serial Problem

A class of SCADA vulnerabilities discussed at a recent conference is getting attention not only for the risks they pose to master control systems at electric utilities, but also for illuminating a dangerous gap in important critical infrastructure regulations. Researchers Adam Crain and Chris...

InduSoft Web Studio Directory Traversal Vulnerability

OVERVIEW This advisory was originally posted to the US-CERT secure Portal library on April 17, 2014, and is now being released to the NCCIC/ICS-CERT web site. ICS-CERT received a report from the Zero Day Initiative ZDI concerning a Directory Traversal vulnerability affecting the InduSoft Web Stud...

Zero Day Vulnerability Patched in SCADA HMI Software

Malaysian SCADA software company Ecava released a patch yesterday for a zero-day vulnerability in its flagship human machine interface HMI that was publicly disclosed at a conference this week. The patch repairs a buffer overflow vulnerability in the company’s IntegraXor Web-based HMI software. H...

DHS Warns of Schneider Electric ClearSCADA Vulnerability

The Department of Homeland Security is warning the maintainers of industrial control systems ICS about a remotely exploitable uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in Schneider Electric’s ClearSCADA software. Schneider Electric says that it has developed a new version of ClearSCADA that...