- Dangerous Malware Discovered that Can Take Down Electric Power Grids
June 12, 2017
Last December, a cyber attack on Ukrainian Electric power grid caused the power outage in the northern part of Kiev — the country’s capital — and surrounding areas, causing a blackout for tens of thousands of citizens for an hour and fifteen minutes around midnight. Now, security researchers have discovered the culprit behind those cyber attacks ...
- Infrastructure Software Vulnerabilities Raise Concern Among Cybersecurity Experts
June 9, 2017
Vulnerabilities in software that automates everything from factories to traffic lights has become the nation’s top cybersecurity threat, an agent on the FBI’s Denver Cyber Task Force said Thursday in Colorado Springs. Supervisory control and data acquisition software is used to control — sometimes remotely — many types of devices in the energy, transportation, manufacturing and ...
- Honeywell Process Solutions to establish cybersecurity center of excellence in Singapore
June 8, 2017
Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS; Houston; www.honeywellprocess.com), with the support of the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), will establish a new industrial cybersecurity center of excellence (COE) for Asia Pacific in Singapore. The COE will feature a state-of-the-art cybersecurity research and development lab, an advanced training facility and a security operations center that provides managed security ...
- Industrial cyber security – Securing Operational Technology 101
May 26, 2017
It would be fair to say that cyber security is at the top of most businesses’ list of concerns. The increased emphasis on IT and technology – every company is a technology company today, after all – has made it this way. Technology and data have become so deeply entrenched in many organisations that if it ...
- Deloitte and Dragos Partner on Industrial Cybersecurity
May 9, 2017
The industrial control system cybersecurity space continues to attract new investments, partnerships and companies. To say that the industrial cybersecurity industry has changed dramatically over the past few years would be a major understatement—not only because the changes have been so significant, but because the evolution is still underway. Just in the past few months we’ve ...
- Factory Robots Are Easy to Hack, Researchers Show
May 3, 2017
In perhaps one of the scariest findings in recent months, researchers have discovered that factory robots can easily be hacked. This, of course, could have grave effects on entire industries and pose safety issues. Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro found that numerous factory robots have a weak network security, using simple combinations of username and passwords that ...
- Almost All Security Professionals Fear an Increase in Attacks on Industrial IoT
March 14, 2017
As nice as it is to have a connected world, the security threats brought on by the desire to have every device we own connected to the Internet are great. In fact, a staggering 96% of IT security professionals expect an increase in attacks on industrial Internet of Things. According to a new survey published by ...
- IIoT Hot Buttons for 2017
February 6, 2017
By Jason Andersen, Vice President, Business Line Management, Stratus Technologies In our 35-plus years of providing continuous availability solutions for enterprises, we’ve seen only a handful of technology shifts that you could call “seismic.” The globalisation of eCommerce was a big one that was transformational for mission critical infrastructures. At Stratus, we believe that the next ...