Moxa Won't Patch Publicly Disclosed Flaws Until August

Update A number of publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in Moxa networking gear won’t be patched until August, if at all, according to an alert published on Friday by the Industrial Control System Cyber Emergency Response Team ICS-CERT. Researcher Joakim Kennedy of Rapid7 disclosed in March some...

Schneider Electric MiCOM S1 Studio Improper Authorization Vulnerability

Overview This advisory provides mitigation details for a vulnerability affecting the Schneider Electric MiCOM S1 Studio Software. Independent researcher Michael Toecker of Digital Bond has identified an improper authorization vulnerability in the MiCOM S1 Studio Software using the Microsoft Attac...

Attack on SCADA Vendor Telvent Raises Concerns

Telvent, the maker of a SCADA product used in a number of critical industries, said that its corporate network has been compromised by attackers and that some of the files used by customers on their own networks were changed. This attack is the latest in what looks to be a series of incidents of...

Slideshow: Scenes from S4 2012

VIEW SLIDESHOW Scenes from S4 2012 S4 is a conference hosted by Digital Bond, a security consulting firm based in Sunrise, Florida. Now in its fifth year, the S4 draws some of the world’s top experts in securing industrial control systems to sunny Miami Beach to discuss the state of the art. Here...

Security audits

A presentation on Project Basecamp was a highlight of the conference. The talk presented the findings of a volunteer-led security audit of leading programmable logic controllers PLCs. The audit found that decrepit hardware, buggy software and pitiful or nonexistent security features make thousand...

Wrapping up the SCADA conference

S4 is a conference hosted by Digital Bond, a security consulting firm based in Sunrise, Florida. Now in its fifth year, the S4 draws some of the world’s top experts in securing industrial control systems to sunny Miami Beach to discuss the state of the art. Press was allowed this year for the fir...