Denial of Service Vulnerability in GE PACsystem RX7i

PACsystem RX7i is an intelligent platform product from General Electric, often used for production control in steel, aluminum plants, automotive plants, nuclear power, and high-speed production lines. A denial of service vulnerability exists in GE PACsystem RX7i, which can be exploited by attacke...

Malware targeting industrial plants: a threat to physical security

We live in a world where more and more manufacturing processes are controlled by computers that send instructions to robots. This might sound like a safe and efficient way of work, as it rules out human error, but what happens when a threat actor decides to target production servers? Consider the...

7-Technologies IGSS Vulnerabilities

Overview This advisory is a follow-up to ICS-ALERT-11-080-03 7-Technologies IGSS Vulnerabilities, published on the ICS-CERT Web site on March 20, 2011. An independent researcher has identified eight vulnerabilities in 7-Technologies 7T IGSS SCADA human-machine interface HMI application. Each of t...

Former NSA software developer can Hack Surveillance cameras remotely

A former NSA software developer is saying he has identified how major camera systems used by industrial plants, prisons, banks and the military could be hacked to freeze a frame and would allow hackers to spy on facilities or gain access to sensitive computer networks. Craig Heffner, that there...

50 new Scada threats discovered, Another stuxnet in making ?

Scada systems are found in a variety of industrial plants ranging from water and waste treatment to food and pharmaceuticals and even nuclear power plants.Their scurity of these systems is getting worse and is big concern today. Application security management firm Idappcom reported 52 new threat...