Denial of Service Vulnerability in the OSI Layer of the SISCO_MMS_Lite Suite MMS Protocol

MMSLite is a communication component development library based on the IEC61850 standard for substation network communication developed by SISCO, mainly used for Intelligent Electronic Devices IEDs such as Remote Terminal Units RTUs, Automatic Relays, Programmable Logic Controllers PLCs and so on....

Power Grid Honeypot Puts Face on Attacks

TENERIFE, Spain –The rhetoric around hacking the power grid would have you believe it’s a relatively mundane practice. Policymakers, intelligence agencies and vendors, for example, spread the word gleefully, leaning on scenarios such as state-sponsored hackers shutting off the lights in the dead ...