TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of May 22, 2017

For those of you who follow the National Football League NFL, do you remember Super Bowl 47? I wasn’t exactly thrilled about the teams that played since I’m not a 49ers or Ravens fan. What was interesting about the game is that it was halted for over half an hour in the third quarter because of a...

Scan Reveals Hydropower Plants, Other Critical Infrastructure Exposed Online

An Internet scan of the IPv4 address space uncovered more than 100 critical facilities exposed to the public Internet, including hydropower plants in Germany and Italy, and a smart building in Israel hosting luxury apartments. The investigation, conducted by researchers at Internet Wache of Berli...

0-Day SCADA Exploits Publicly Exposed by Italian researchers

0-Day SCADA Exploits Publicly Exposed by Italian researchers An Italian researcher has uncovered at least a dozen security flaws in software used in utilities and other critical infrastructure systems, prompting security advisories from the U.S. government. Security researcher Luigi Auriemma...