Cesar Cerrudo on Securing Smart Cities

IOActive Labs CTO Cesar Cerrudo talks to Ryan Naraine about major realistic security problems affecting technology implementations of smart cities — from traffic control systems to surveillance cameras and power grids — and warns that the damages from live attacks could be catastrophic. Download:...

Traffic Networks Firm Patches Sensor Vulnerabilities

A year after it was notified about a security vulnerability, a company in charge of manufacturing sensors used in traffic control systems has patched a series of previously disclosed bugs that could have opened the products up to a handful of exploits. A warning from the Industrial Control System...

Hacking Traffic Systems for Fun and Chaos

It has been a running joke in the tech industry for years that the hacking scenes in movies are, well, a joke. Hackers in hoodies pushing a few keys and taking down the power grid or causing massive traffic pileups by turning all the stoplights green at once. While those scenes provide endless...

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...