For patch NTP-Network Time Protocol vulnerabilities, Apple released the first Auto-Update Patch-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Last night, Apple released its first automated patch, used to repair Appleoperating systemon the keyNetwork Time Protocol（NTP）vulnerabilitiesthe. The patch can be automatically patched, and does not require the user to restart the operation. NTP Network TimeProtocol, the Network Time Protocol, is...

HP's Zero Day Initiative Changes Bug-Buying Guidelines

HP’s Zero Day Initiative has decided to adjust its guidelines and criteria or buying some vulnerabilities in the future, eliminating some large classes of bugs from its menu. The group, which has been among the more visible and prominent of the vulnerability purchasing programs since its inceptio...

First Time Ever Apple Automatically Pushes Security Patch for Mac OS

First time ever in the History, Apple Inc. has pushed out an automatic security update for Macintosh OS X computers to address a critical security issue that, according to the company, was too risky to wait for users to patch after seeking their prior approval. Despite having the ability for year...

Apple Patches NTP Vulnerabilities in First Automated Patch

Apple last night for the first time pushed an automated patch to Mac OS X users, taking care of critical Network Time Protocol NTP vulnerabilities. The fix was delivered automatically and did not require Mac users to restart their machines. The latest security issue in NTP, which is used by...

Exploits Circulating for Remote Code Execution Flaws in NTP Protocol

Researchers at Google have uncovered several serious vulnerabilities in the Network Time Protocol and experts warn that there are exploits publicly available for some of the bugs. The vulnerabilities are present in all versions of NTP prior to 4.2.8 and include several buffer overflows that are...

CONPOT ICS SCADA Honeypot

CONPOT ICS SCADA Honeypot Conpot is a low interactive server side Industrial Control Systems honeypot designed to be easy to deploy, modify and extend. By providing a range of common industrial control protocols we created the basics to build your own system, capable to emulate complex...

Stuxnet's First Five Victims Provided Path to Natanz

Stuxnet’s first five victims were a carefully crafted list of targets that ultimately provided the attackers with the road map they needed to get inside a uranium enrichment plant in Natanz, Iran and disrupt the country’s nuclear program. Cobbled together from clues left behind by the infamous...

Patching Bash Vulnerability a Challenge for ICS, SCADA

While the most urgent focus where the Bash vulnerability is concerned is around Internet-facing web servers, embedded systems and industrial control systems are not exempt from worry. Experts are concerned about Linux-based industrial control systems and SCADA equipment, in particular, that may b...

Network Time Protocol Vulnerabilities

OVERVIEW This updated advisory is a follow-up to the updated advisory titled ICSA-14-353-01B Network Time Protocol Vulnerabilities that was published February 4, 2015, on the NCCIC/ICS-CERT web site. Google Security Team researchers Neel Mehta and Stephen Roettger have coordinated multiple...

Traffic Networks Firm Patches Sensor Vulnerabilities

A year after it was notified about a security vulnerability, a company in charge of manufacturing sensors used in traffic control systems has patched a series of previously disclosed bugs that could have opened the products up to a handful of exploits. A warning from the Industrial Control System...

Siemens Patches Five Vulnerabilities in SIMATIC System

Siemens released an update for two builds of its SIMATIC automation system this week, addressing a quintet of vulnerabilities, four of which are remotely exploitable. The German company’s SIMATIC WinCC, a SCADA system and SIMATIC PCS7, a distributed control system DCS are directly affected by the...

Havex, It’s Down With OPC

FireEye recently analyzed the capabilities of a variant of Havex referred to by FireEye as “Fertger” or “PEACEPIPE”, the first publicized malware reported to actively scan OPC servers used for controlling SCADA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition devices in critical infrastructure e.g., wate...

DHS Releases Hundreds of Documents on Wrong Project Aurora

In response to a Freedom of Information Act request for information about the Operation Aurora attack on Google and other organizations in 2009 the Department of Homeland Security released hundreds of pages of documents related not to that attack campaign, but to the Aurora project run at Idaho...

ICS-CERT Confirms Public Utility Compromised Recently

Attackers recently compromised a utility in the United States through an Internet-connected system that gave the attackers access to the utility’s internal control system network. The utility, which has not been named, had remote access enabled on some of its Internet-connected hosts and the...

Critical Infrastructure Continues to Patch Heartbleed

Unified Automation issued a security advisory warning that its OPC UA software developers kit SDK for Windows contains the OpenSSL cryptography library that is vulnerable to Heartbleed. Schneider Electric, another industrial control system ICS manufacturer, posted its own advisory with mitigation...

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...

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...

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...

Cybersecurity Framework for U.S. Critical Infrastructure

Critical infrastructure operators have been delivered a cybersecurity framework by the U.S. government that paints broad strokes as to how to defend IT and SCADA networks in some of the country’s most sensitive industries such as energy, water and financial services. NIST today announced the...