DHS Warns ICS, SCADA Owners About Increase in Malicious Activity

An alert from the Department of Homeland Security late last week urges private- and public-sector industrial control system ICS owners to be proactive in auditing the security, particularly, authentication controls of their systems. The alert is in response to a growing concern over the number of...

Fedora Core 1 : coreutils-5.0-34.1 (2004-091)

An updated coreutils package is available fixing an issue in the ls1 utility, described at : https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2003-0853 Note that this vulnerability affects Internet-facing services which execute ls1 with user-supplied input, and although wu-ftpd is one such service it is not supplied...

Persistent Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

We have identified and fixed a persistent cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities that affects Stash instances, including publicly available instances that is, Internet-facing servers. XSS vulnerabilities allow an attacker to embed their own JavaScript into a Stash page. More information is...

Persistent Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

We have identified and fixed a persistent cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities that affects Stash instances, including publicly available instances that is, Internet-facing servers. XSS vulnerabilities allow an attacker to embed their own JavaScript into a Stash page. More information is...

Homeland Security Warns SCADA Operators Of Internet-Facing Systems

In the wake of the hack of water and sewer infrastructure operated by a Texas community, the Department of Homeland Security is again warning owners and operators of critical infrastructure to take note of SCADA and industrial control systems that may be accessible from the Internet. DHS’s...

Was The Three Character Password Used To Hack South Houston's Water Treatment Plant A Siemens Default?

Siemens said on Tuesday that it is working with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to investigate a cyber intrusion into a water treatment plant in South Houston, Texas, but couldn’t confirm that a default, three digit password hard coded into an application used to control the company’s...

Hacker Says Texas Town Used Three Character Password To Secure Internet Facing SCADA System

In an e-mail interview with Threatpost, the hacker who compromised software used to manage water infrastructure for South Houston, Texas, said the district had HMI human machine interface software used to manage water and sewage infrastructure accessible to the Internet and used a password that w...

Search Engine Finds Vulnerable SCADA Systems

UPDATED: ICS-CERT, the emergency response team for industrial control systems, has warned companies that run SCADA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition software that the systems running it may be easily discovered using a free Web based search engine dubbed Shodan. The warning came in the for...

RPC Portmapper Service Detection (UDP)

UDP based detection of a RPC portmapper service. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

RPC Portmapper Service Detection (TCP)

TCP based detection of a RPC portmapper service. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...