Researchers Highlight Medical Device Security at Annual ICS Conference

Two popular industrial control system ICS researchers this week demonstrated how easily medical devices, including a Philips-branded machine that regularly interacts with x-ray machines and other hospital equipment, can be hacked. At Digital Bond’s annual SCADA Security Scientific Symposium S4...

Malware Infects US Power Plants through USB Drives

The US Department of Homeland Security's Cyber Emergency Response Team has released a report, which stated that two American electrical power plants were compromised late last year and has identified a number of glaring electronic vulnerabilities. Some unknown malware infected two power plants...

Malware Infects US Power Plants through USB Drives

The US Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber Emergency Response Team has released a report, which stated that two American electrical power plants were compromised late last year and has identified a number of glaring electronic vulnerabilities. Some unknown malware infected two power plants...

Malware Infects Two Power Plants Lacking Basic Security Controls

During the past three months, unnamed malware infected two power plants’ control systems using unprotected USB drives as an attack vector. At both companies, a lack of basic security controls made it much easier for the malicious code to reach critical networks. In one instance, according to a...

Canary Labs Inc Trend Link Insecure ActiveX Control Method

Overview This advisory provides mitigation details for a vulnerability in the Canary Labs, Inc. Trend Link software. Researcher Kuang-Chun Hung of Security Research and Service Institute−Information and Communication Security Technology Center ICST has identified an insecure ActiveX control metho...

Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk RNADiagReceiver

Overview This Updated Advisory is a follow-up to the original Advisory titled “ICSA-12-088-01 – Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk RNADiagReceiver DOS Vulnerabilities” that was published March 28, 2012 on the ICS-CERT web page. This advisory is a follow-up to ICS-CERT Alert...

Ecava IntegraXor ActiveX Directory Traversal

Overview Independent researchers Billy Rios and Terry McCorkle have identified a Path Traversal vulnerability in the Ecava IntegraXor application. Ecava has produced an update that mitigates this vulnerability. The researchers have validated that the patch fixes this vulnerability. Affected...

Siemens Automation License Manager Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Overview This advisory provides mitigation details for a vulnerability that impacts the Siemens Automation License Manager ALM. Siemens ProductCERT has identified an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerabilitySSA-783261, https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-783261.pdf, Web site...

Team Ghostshell Allegedly Dumps 1.6 M Aerospace, Nanotechnology Records

Hacktivist collective Team Ghostshell is claiming this morning to have spilled 1.6 million accounts from a handful of companies in the aerospace, nanotechnology, banking, law, education and government realm, a hack the group deems Project White Fox. The group claims White Fox is its “final stand”...

GE Intelligent Platforms Proficy Plant Applications Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities

Overview ICS-CERT received a report from GE Intelligent Platforms and the Zero Day Initiative ZDI concerning multiple memory corruption vulnerabilities in the GE Intelligent Platforms Proficy Plant Applications. These vulnerabilities were reported to ZDI by independent security researcher Luigi...

7-Technologies Termis DLL Hijacking

Overview ICS-CERT originally released Advisory ICSA-12-025-02P on the US-CERT secure portal on January 25, 2012. This web page release was delayed to allow users time to download and install the update. Researcher Kuang-Chun Hung of the Security Research and Service Institute−Information and...

Ocean Data Systems Dream Reports XSS and Write Access Violation Vulnerabilities

Overview Independent researchers Billy Rios and Terry McCorkle identified cross-site scripting XSS and write access violation vulnerabilities in Ocean Data Systems Dream Report application. ICS-CERT has coordinated these vulnerabilities with Ocean Data Systems, which has produced a new version th...

Schneider Electric Quantum Ethernet Module Hard-Coded Credentials

OVERVIEW --------- Begin Update B Part 1 of 3 -------- This updated advisory is a follow-up to the updated advisory titled ICSA-12-018-01A Schneider Electric Quantum Ethernet Module Hard-Coded Credentials that was published on June 04, 2013, on the ICS-CERT Web site. It is also a follow-up to the...

ING. Punzenberger COPA-DATA GMBH DoS Vulnerabilities

Overview ICS-CERT originally released Advisory ICSA-12-013-01P on the US-CERT secure portal on January 13, 2012. This web page release was delayed to allow users time to download and install the update. Researcher Kuang-Chun Hung of the Security Research and Service Institute--Information and...

SCADA Hacking : Exploit released to Hack Solar Energy Plants

ICS-CERT - Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team has released the Advisory titled ICS-ALERT-12-284-01 - Sinapsi eSolar Light Multiple Vulnerabilities. They Report about report multiple vulnerabilities with proof-of-concept PoC exploit code that affecting the Sinapsi eSolar Ligh...

3S CoDeSys Vulnerabilities

Overview This advisory is a follow-up to the alert update, ICS-ALERT-11-336-01A 3S CoDeSys Vulnerabilities, which was released on the ICS-CERT Web page on December 02, 2011. Security researcher Celil Unuver SignalSec LLC and independent researcher Luigi Auriemma have identified vulnerabilities in...

I-GEN opLYNX Central Authentication Bypass

Overview This advisory provides mitigation details for a vulnerability that impacts the i-GEN opLYNX Central software. Exploitation of this vulnerability would allow partial leakage of information and access to system settings. Independent researcher Anthony Cicalla has identified an authenticati...

Carlo Gavazzi EOS Box Multiple Vulnerabilities

Overview This advisory provides mitigation details for multiple vulnerabilities that impact the Carlo Gavazzi EOS-Box Photovoltaic Monitoring System. Carlo Gavazzi has identified two vulnerabilities in the Carlo Gavazzi EOS-Box Photovoltaic Monitoring System. Carlo Gavazzi has produced a firmware...

Hard-Coded Password Leaves GarrettCom Switches Open to Attack, ICS-CERT Warns

The Department of Homeland Security is warning users of some of GarrettCom’s switches that there is a hard-coded password in a default account on the devices, which are deployed in a number of critical infrastructure industries, that could allow an attacker to take control of them. A researcher a...

RuggedCom Devices Have Hard-Coded SSL Keys

Siemens subsidiary RuggedCom’s Rugged Operating System ROS contains a vulnerability that could give an attacker the ability to decrypt SSL traffic between RuggedCom networking equipment and end-users, according to an ICS-CERT alert. Justin W. Clarke, a security researcher at Cylance Inc., disclos...