The OT Security Opportunity for CISOs
In my previous column, I talked about the rapidly changing geopolitical landscape and the escalation of cyberattacks on critical infrastructure. Some of you may...
SCADA / ICS
Massachusetts Electric Utility Hit by Ransomware
The Reading Municipal Light Department (RMLD), an electric utility in Massachusetts, informed customers on Monday that its systems were targeted last week in a...
Vulnerabilities in Moxa Networking Device Expose Industrial Environments to Attacks
Researchers from Cisco’s Talos intelligence and research group have identified a dozen vulnerabilities in a wireless networking device made by Taiwan-based industrial networking, computing...
Mismanagement of Device Identities Could Cost Businesses Billions: Report
The cost of poorly protected device identities has long been assumed, but not proven, to be large. Specification of the part played by SSH...
Over 400 ICS Vulnerabilities Disclosed in 2019: Report
More than 400 vulnerabilities affecting industrial control systems (ICS) were disclosed in 2019 and over a quarter of them had no patches when their...
Many Upstream Oil and Gas Companies Invested in Cybersecurity in 2019: Survey
Many upstream oil and gas organizations invested in cybersecurity last year in an effort to improve their threat detection and prevention capabilities, according to...
Profinet Vulnerability Exposes Siemens, Moxa Devices to DoS Attacks
A serious vulnerability found in the Profinet industrial communication protocol exposes devices from Siemens, Moxa and possibly other vendors to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. The...
Siemens Patches Serious DoS Vulnerabilities in Several Products
Siemens’ Patch Tuesday updates for February 2020 address serious denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities in several of the company’s products. The company has published a dozen...
Leidos Buys L3Harris Security and Automation Business for $1 Billion
Reston, VA-based Leidos Holdings has announced a definitive agreement to buy the airport security and automation businesses from UK-based L3Harris for $1 billion in...
Vulnerability in Linear eMerge Access Controllers Exploited in the Wild
Hackers are actively targeting a vulnerability in Linear eMerge E3 access controllers to infect the devices with malware and abuse them to launch distributed...