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A newly issued patch plugs more than a dozen vulnerabilities that affect certain versions of an industrial multiport secure router series. On 13 April, Cisco Talos published a report revealing the security weaknesses as part of a coordinated disclosure… Continue reading Patch Plugs More Than a Dozen Vulnerabilities Affecting Industrial Secure Router Series
Vik leads Accenture Security’s global Products Operating Group, with responsibility for the creation and delivery of comprehensive strategies and solutions for Retail, Industrial, Travel, Consumer Goods & Services, and Life Sciences clients…. Continue reading Vik Desai, Accenture – Business Security Weekly #72
Sophisticated malware capable of forcing industrial equipment safety systems to fail was found in industrial control systems in the Middle East, according to information provided to CyberScoop and research produced Thursday by U.S. cybersecurity firms FireEye and Dragos. Dubbed “Triton”or “Trisis,” the malware disrupts an emergency shutdown capability in Schneider Electric’s Triconex safety instrumented system (SIS). By targeting this system, Triton makes it easier for an industrial control system (ICS) to fail and break down. SIS technology is often used in oil and gas production facilities, among other industrial environments. Triton is the fifth known case of malware that has been specially designed to sabotage industrial control systems. In some instances, an ICS-focused failure could result in an explosion, damaged machines, property destruction, injury or loss of human life. According to researchers with FireEye, Triton is likely the work of a nation-state, although it’s not clear which country is responsible. According to FireEye, the […]
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I’ve spent a lot of time in the depths of aging industrial power plants and the control houses of transmission substations. I’ve walked the aisles of countless steel cabinets taking inventory of the gear used to protect and control whatR… Continue reading The Living Dead: Securing Legacy Industrial Systems
What do Robert M. Lee, Eric Byres, Sean McBride, Dr. Oliver Kleineberg, and Sid Snitkin all have in common? If any of these names do not ring a bell, they’re each industrial cybersecurity experts in different realms. Along with Tripwire customers and other industry leaders, they will be sharing fast-paced perspectives and challenging you to […]… Read More
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When working on software development in a team environment, it’s important to know the status of your build at all times. Jenkins can display build automation info on a screen but where’s the fun in that? A popular office project is to build some kind of visual display of a project’s status, and [dkt01] has done just that with this stack light build monitor.
In this day and age of online shopping, random bits of industrial hardware are just an eBay away, so it’s easy to find some cool lamps or indicators for any project. [dkt01] sourced a standard 24V …read more
Continue reading Jenkins Given an Industrial Stack Light for Build Reporting
How to train young engineers in industrial automation is a thorny issue. Most factories have big things that can do a lot of damage and cost tons of money if the newbie causes a crash. Solution: shrink the factory down to desktop size and let them practice on that.
Luckily for [Vadim], there’s an off-the-shelf solution for miniaturizing factory automation: FischerTechnik industrial training models. The models have motors, conveyors, pneumatic cylinders, and sensors galore, but the controller is not exactly the industry standard programmable logic controller (PLC). [Vadim] set out to remedy this by building an interface between the FischerTechnik …read more
Industrial controls are fun to use in a build because they’re just so — well, industrial. They’re chunky and built to take a beating, both from the operating environment and the users. They’re often power guzzlers, though, so knowing how to convert an industrial indicator for microcontroller use might be a handy skill to have.
Having decided that an Allen-Bradley cluster indicator worked with the aesthetic of his project, a Halloween prop of some sort, [Glen] set about dissecting the controls. Industrial indicators usually make that a simple task so that they can be configured for different voltages in the …read more
Continue reading Industrial Indicator Makes the Move from PLC to FPGA
Industrial hardware needs to be reliable, tough, and interoperable. For this reason, there are a series of standards used for command & control connections between equipment. One of the more widespread standards is ModBus, an open protocol using a master-slave architecture, usually delivered over RS-485 serial. It’s readily found being used with PLCs, HMIs, VFDs, and all manner of other industrial equipment that comes with a TLA (three letter acronym).
[Absolutelyautomation] decided to leverage ModBus to control garden variety digital cameras, of the type found cluttering up drawers now that smartphones have come so far. This involves getting old-school, by …read more
Researchers at Kaspersky Lab identified an ongoing series of targeted attacks primarily designed to steal sensitive corporate account data from industrial and engineering organizations in the Middle East.
Continue reading Operation Ghoul Targeting Middle Eastern Industrial, Engineering Organizations
