Pwn2Own Miami Contestants Haul in $180K for Hacking ICS Equipment

The very first Pwn2Own hacking competition that exclusively focuses on the industrial control systems ICS has kicked off in Miami. So far, a total of $180,000 has been awarded for pwning five different products. The contest hosts at Trend Micro’s Zero Day initiative ZDI have allocated more than...

Microsoft Issues Updates for 96 Vulnerabilities You Need to Patch this Month

As part of June's Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released security patches for a total of 96 security vulnerabilities across its products, including fixes for two vulnerabilities being actively exploited in the wild. This month's patch release also includes emergency patches for unsupported version...

Hackers Cause World's First Power Outage with Malware

SCADA system has always been an interesting target for cyber crooks, given the success of Stuxnet malware that was developed by the US and Israeli together to sabotage the Iranian nuclear facilities a few years ago, and "Havex" that previously targeted organizations in the energy sector. Now once...

Stuxnet Malware Mitigation (Update B)

Overview In July, ICS-CERT published an advisory and a series of updates regarding the Stuxnet malware entitled “ICSA-10-201 USB Malware Targeting Siemens Control Software.” Since then, ICS-CERT has continued analysis of the Stuxnet malware in an effort to determine more about its capabilities an...

Snowden Confirms Stuxnet Malware developed by NSA and Israel Together

In an interview with Germany's Der Spiegel Magazine, American whistleblower Edward Snowden has Confirmed that Stuxnet Malware was developed by NSA and Israel Together. Stuxnet made international headlines in 2010 for specifically target a uranium enrichment facility in Natanz, Iran. Stuxnet was...

Snowden Confirms Stuxnet Malware developed by NSA and Israel Together

In an interview with Germany’s Der Spiegel Magazine, American whistleblower Edward Snowden has Confirmed that Stuxnet Malware was developed by NSA and Israel Together. Stuxnet made international headlines in 2010 for specifically target a uranium enrichment facility in Natanz, Iran. Stuxnet was...

Password Cracker Targets Siemens S7 PLCs

Siemens S7 programmable logic controllers, the same PLC family exploited by the Stuxnet malware, are in the crosshairs of a password-cracking tool that is capable of stealing credentials from industrial control systems. PLCs are microprocessors that automate mechanical processes inside factories,...

Army Looking for Ways to Infiltrate Air-Gapped Systems

Every time a story emerges up about malware popping up on an industrial control system or someone remotely hacking into some piece of critical infrastructure, there is a reliable and justifiable chorus of experts wagging their fingers and asking, “Why in the world was that system connected to the...

Indian Security Agencies taking offensive mode for Cyber Security

India is set to take steps to protect its cyber infrastructure and designate agencies for carrying out offensive cyber attacks on other countries. Indian Government announce the appointment of first coordinator for The National cyber security agency. Mr. Gulshan Rai , who presently heads the Indi...

US ,Israel or Russia , Who is Behind Stuxnet?

US ,Israel or Russia , Who is Behind Stuxnet ? Initially After Symantec did a little reverse engineering on the now infamous Stuxnet worm, many started pointing the finger at the US and Israel, especially since it was concluded that the piece of malware was designed to target a specific version o...

Duqu malware was created to spy on Iran's nuclear program

Duqu malware was created to spy on Iran's nuclear program A Report by Kaspersky Lab Expert, Ryan Naraine says that the DUQU malware was created to spy on Iran's nuclear program. IrCERT Iran's Computer Emergency Response Team Duqu is an upgraded version of "Stars". Back in April this year, The...

Microsoft Windows 32-bit Platforms Unspecified vulnerabilities

This host is prone to multiple unspecified vulnerabilities. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbmswindowsstuxnetunspecifiedvuln.nasl 7172 2017-09-18 11:07:34Z cfischer $ Microsoft Windows 32-bit Platforms Unspecified vulnerabilities Authors: Antu Sanadi Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Network...

Microsoft Windows 32-bit Platforms Unspecified vulnerabilities

This host is prone to multiple unspecified vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Microsoft to Issue Emergency Patch for Critical Windows Flaw

Microsoft will issue an out-of-band patch on Monday for a critical vulnerability in all of the current versions of Windows. The company didn’t identify which flaw it will be patching, but the description of the vulnerability is a close match to the LNK flaw that attackers have been exploiting for...