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A new executive order signed on Friday by U.S. President Donald Trump prohibits the acquisition of bulk-power system equipment that could contain intentional backdoors planted by foreign adversaries.
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Continue reading New Executive Order Aims to Protect U.S. Power Grid From Backdoored Equipment
The actions of the hackers who recently targeted water facilities in Israel show their sophistication and prove that they knew exactly what they were doing, according to people with knowledge of the attacks.
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Continue reading Hackers Knew How to Target PLCs in Israel Water Facility Attacks: Sources
Researchers say a critical denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability they discovered in Inductive Automation’s Ignition Gateway could allow hackers to cause disruption on the plant floor.
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Continue reading Critical Ignition Gateway Vulnerability Can Lead to Disruption in Plants
The Israeli government has issued an alert to organizations in the water sector following a series of cyberattacks aimed at water facilities.
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Continue reading Israel Says Hackers Targeted SCADA Systems at Water Facilities
Several serious vulnerabilities have been found in the ABB System 800xA distributed control system (DCS), including flaws that can be exploited for remote code execution, denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, and privilege escalation.
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Continue reading Flaws in ABB DCS Allow Hackers to Cause Disruption in Industrial Environments
Oil and gas organizations have been targeted in recent spearphishing campaigns using the “Agent Tesla” spyware Trojan, security firm Bitdefender says.
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Continue reading Oil and Gas Companies Targeted With Agent Tesla Malware
A potentially serious vulnerability discovered by researchers in Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) chips can expose many mission- and safety-critical devices to attacks.
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Continue reading Starbleed: Flaw in FPGA Chips Exposes Safety-Critical Devices to Attacks
A threat actor that has been spotted targeting Azerbaijan has shown an interest in the energy sector, specifically SCADA systems related to wind turbines, Cisco’s Talos threat intelligence and research group reports.
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Continue reading Hackers Targeting Azerbaijan Show Interest in SCADA Systems
Advice for CISOs on Bridging the IT-OT Security Gap: Part 1
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Continue reading Three Tips to Help CISOs Close the IT-OT Security Gap
Siemens has released six new advisories for its April 2020 Patch Tuesday updates, including three that inform customers about the impact of the SegmentSmack vulnerability on some of the company’s industrial products.
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Continue reading Siemens Industrial Devices Affected by ‘SegmentSmack’ Linux Kernel Flaw