Phoenix Contact ILC Security Bypass Vulnerability

Phoenix Contact ProConOs and MultiProg are programmable logic controllers PLCs for use in industrial PCs from the Phoenix Contact group. A security bypass vulnerability exists in the Phoenix Contact ILC PLCs, which can be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to access read and write PLC...

PLC Blaster Worm Targets Industrial Control PLCs

LAS VEGAS – Security researchers at Black Hat USA described a proof-of-concept worm that targets weaknesses within automated industrial control systems used to manage critical infrastructure and manufacturing. The worm, according to OpenSource Security, has the capability to autonomously search f...

The vulnerability of microprogrammed software in programmable logic controllers PCD allows a intruder to gain administrator privileges.

The vulnerability of PCD programmable logic controllers’ microprogramming software exists due to the rigid encoding of registration data. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor, operating remotely, to gain administrator privileges through an FTP session...

Vulnerability of microprogrammed software for Micrologix 1100 and 1400 programmable logic controllers, allowing a intruder to execute arbitrary code

The vulnerability of the microprogrammed logic controllers Micrologix 1100 and 1400 is caused by buffer overflow on the stack. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code...

Siemens ICS Switches Hit With Buffer Overflow, Authentication Bugs

There are a number of serious vulnerabilities in the Siemens Ruggedcom WIN switches, including a remotely exploitable buffer overflow and a flaw that could allow an attacker to take actions on the device without authentication. The vulnerabilities affect several models of the Ruggedcom WIN...

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...

Dillon Beresford Talked Siemens Vulnerabilities

NSS researcher Dillon Beresford continued his research into the security of SCADA and industrial control systems with a talk on vulnerabilities in Siemens Step 7 programmable logic controllers. Read more: Black Hat: Remote DOS, Backdoor, Easter Egg Among Newly Discovered Siemens Holes...

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 Source Code Released Online - Download Now

Stuxnet Source Code Released Online - Download Now Stuxnet is a Microsoft Windows computer worm discovered in July 2010 that targets industrial software and equipment. While it is not the first time that crackers have targeted industrial systems,it is the first discovered malware that spies on an...

Security Firms Scramble For SCADA Talent After Stuxnet

Three months after the world first learned of the sophisticated Stuxnet worm, insiders say that there’s a scramble to find and hire engineers with knowledge of both security and the industrial control systems that were Stuxnet’s intended target. Anti virus companies admit their research teams wer...