What ‘Nightingale Floors’ From Historical Japan Can Teach Us About Intrusion Suppression

Multinational corporations are under siege from a multiplicity of threat actors. The cyber arms bazaar that flourishes around the world has allowed for criminals and nations to wage long-term campaigns against corporations and government agencies. These cyber criminals stalk businesses and...

RSAC 2018: Tech Giants Form Cybersecurity Tech Accord

SAN FRANCISCO – Microsoft President Brad Smith during a keynote at the 2018 RSA Conference condemned government-backed cyberattacks as endangering innocent civilian’s lives – and said that tech companies need to come together to “open the world’s eyes to the impact that this is having.” At this...

Suppressing the Adversary via Threat Hunt Teams

What a brave new world. Global cyber insurgencies continue unabated. Decreasing dwell time is imperative in 2018. In order to achieve this goal, we must embrace the hunt. Every organization should stand up a threat hunt team. The team must be multidisciplinary with experience in e-forensics and...

Hackers Have Reportedly Infiltrated The US Power Grids

By Waqas The IT Security firm Symantec revealed on Wednesday that hackers This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers Have Reportedly Infiltrated The US Power Grids...

Critical Flaws Found in Solar Panels Could Shut Down Power Grids

A Dutch security researcher has uncovered a slew of security vulnerabilities in an essential component of solar panels which could be exploited to cause widespread outages in European power grids. Willem Westerhof, a cybersecurity researcher at Dutch security firm ITsec, discovered 21 security...

Dangerous Malware Discovered that Can Take Down Electric Power Grids

Last December, a cyber attack on Ukrainian Electric power grid caused the power outage in the northern part of Kiev — the country's capital — and surrounding areas, causing a blackout for tens of thousands of citizens for an hour and fifteen minutes around midnight. Now, security researchers have...

Oracle PeopleSoft Products PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools Component Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2016-02554)

Oracle PeopleSoft Products is a suite of enterprise human capital management solutions from Oracle Corporation, and PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools is one of the tools and technology components that transforms the way organizations manage, use, and maintain their PeopleSoft software. PeopleSoft...

CVE-2016-0679

Unspecified vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools component in Oracle PeopleSoft Products 8.53, 8.54, and 8.55 allows remote authenticated users to affect integrity and availability via vectors related to PIA Grids...

CVE-2016-0679

Unspecified vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools component in Oracle PeopleSoft Products 8.53, 8.54, and 8.55 allows remote authenticated users to affect integrity and availability via vectors related to PIA Grids...

Code injection

Unspecified vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools component in Oracle PeopleSoft Products 8.53, 8.54, and 8.55 allows remote authenticated users to affect integrity and availability via vectors related to PIA Grids...

CVE-2016-0679

Unspecified vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools component in Oracle PeopleSoft Products 8.53, 8.54, and 8.55 allows remote authenticated users to affect integrity and availability via vectors related to PIA Grids...

CVE-2016-0679

Unspecified vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools component in Oracle PeopleSoft Products 8.53, 8.54, and 8.55 allows remote authenticated users to affect integrity and availability via vectors related to PIA Grids...

CVE-2016-0679: Undefined Security Weakness

Unspecified vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools component in Oracle PeopleSoft Products 8.53, 8.54, and 8.55 allows remote authenticated users to affect integrity and availability via vectors related to PIA Grids...

Dewan Chowdhury on Hacking Power Grids

Threatpost editor Mike Mimoso talks with Dewan Chowdhury, the founder and CEO of MalCrawler, about hacking power grids and a honeypot they built to mimic an energy management system...

Unspecified Vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft Products (CNVD-2015-06958)

Oracle PeopleSoft Products is a suite of enterprise human capital management solutions from Oracle. An unspecified vulnerability exists in Oracle PeopleSoft Products 8.53 and 8.54. Allowing an authenticated remote user to pivot through unspecified vectors with associated pivot grids compromises...

Cesar Cerrudo on Securing Smart Cities

IOActive Labs CTO Cesar Cerrudo talks to Ryan Naraine about major realistic security problems affecting technology implementations of smart cities — from traffic control systems to surveillance cameras and power grids — and warns that the damages from live attacks could be catastrophic. Download:...

Sensitive Army database of U.S. dams compromised by Chinese Hackers

U.S. intelligence agencies traced a recent cyber intrusion into U.S. Army database that holds sensitive information about vulnerabilities in U.S. dams. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers National Inventory of Dams contains information about 79,000 dams throughout the country and tracks such...

Open Source Smart Meter Hacking Framework can Hack into the Power Grid

A researcher specializing in smart grids has released an open-source tool designed to assess the security of smart meters. Dubbed 'Termineter,' the framework would allow users, such as grid operators and administrators, to test smart meters for vulnerabilities. It claims will let security...

ganglia-info NSE Script

Retrieves system information OS version, available memory, etc. from a listening Ganglia Monitoring Daemon or Ganglia Meta Daemon. Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and Grids. The information retrieved includes HDD size,...

2011 will be Stuxnet-like viruses year !

Known to successfully slow down the Iranian nuclear program, the Stuxnet cyber worm is now expected to spawn variations that are predicted to disrupt non-traditional IT targets, from power grids to electronic voting stations. The Stuxnet cyber worm is a very complex, efficient and stealthy string...