Market Fail: Regulations May Be Only Hope For Securing Critical Infrastructure

Threatpost’s exclusive interview with Ralph Langner continues, as our conversation shifts from the legacy of the Stuxnet worm to larger issues facing the critical infrastructure sector including mounting attacks, tensions between vendors and security researchers over responsible disclosure, and...

Video Presentation on Stuxnet by Hungry Beast

Video Presentation on Stuxnet by Hungry Beast In June last year, a computer virus called Stuxnet was discovered lurking in the data banks of power plants, traffic control systems and factories around the world. Pandora's box has been opened; on the new battlefield the aggressors are anonymous, th...

Cyber jihadists could use Stuxnet worm to attack the west !

Cyber jihadists could use Stuxnet worm to attack the west ! ACCORDING TO Mikko Hypponen, F-Secure's chief security researcher, there has been a revolution in malware with Stuxnet. "The worst case scenario is that Al-Qaeda or another organisation could gain access to this type of knowledge and...

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...

The Difficulty of Surveillance Crowdsourcing

Internet Eyes is a U.K. startup designed to crowdsource digital surveillance. People pay a small fee to become a “Viewer.” Once they do, they can log onto the site and view live anonymous feeds from surveillance cameras at retail stores. If they notice someone shoplifting, they can alert the stor...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at www.almostedenplants.com

Security researcher Cyber-Unity, has submitted on 21/03/2007 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting www.almostedenplants.com, which at the time of submission ranked 1626856 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 22/03/2007...