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Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Ambiguity?

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Authored by Gareth Pritchard, Azeem Aleem, Peter Tran From the days of Slammer, Stuxnet, Shamoon, etc., to the recent Ukrainian (black energy) Power Grid and “Panel Shock” Attacks, we are witnessing a sophisticated surge in the attack domains across industrial control systems. The shift from legacy systems towards process control networks with connectivity around enterprise…

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Tales from the Black Hat NOC: Are We Broken?

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Walking through the expo hall at Black Hat Europe was uplifting – if the vendor booths were to be believed, APT’s can be stopped in their tracks, Ransomware protection can be guaranteed, and phishing can become a term applied to lake activities again. All it requires is buying this tool! It made me wonder why people…

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Blues and Bridging the Gap of Grief

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The sound of blues flooded our ears, as approximately 2,000 information security professionals settled into the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, LA, for the third annual RSA user conference, RSA Charge, from Oct 25-27. With our stomachs stuffed with local popular fare inclusive of crawfish, oysters & biegnets as we traversed Bourbon Street to…

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How Hot is Your Faucet? What Color is the Water?

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How hot is the water coming out of your tap? Knowing that the water in their apartment gets “crazy hot,” redditor [AEvans28] opted to whip up a visual water temperature display to warn them off when things get a bit spicy.

This neat little device is sequestered away inside an Altoids mint tin — an oft-used, multi-purpose case for makers. Inside sits an ATtiny85 microcontroller  — re-calibrated using an Arduino UNO to a more household temperature scale ranging from dark blue to flashing red — with additional room for a switch, while the 10k ohm NTC thermristor and RGB LED …read more

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Tales from the Black Hat NOC: Finding Mr. Robot?

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The most significant part of Black Hat Europe 2016 finally started, and as expected – we are watching the arrival of smart security experts, who have come to the event to exchange information or show off their latest tools and products. While it’s hard to say what kind of skilled “hackers” we can expect during last…

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Tales from the BlackHat NOC: Fish and Chips Edition

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We’re in the first day of training at Black Hat Europe 2016, and once again – the RSA Black Hat NOC team is volunteering. This round, we’ll have more full packet capture, log analysis, session reconstruction, and analytics for both the wired and wireless networks provided by RSA NetWitness. Except this time, there is one difference (besides…

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Tales from the Black Hat NOC: Setup in London

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Arrival into London went without a hitch. I then took the train to Angel station and walked to the Business Design Center, which is my home for the next week, during the Black Hat Europe 2016. After walking through the doors and finding my way I was greeted by a room full of boxes. Time to…

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3D Secure 2.0 – The New Sheriff in Town

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EMVCo, the global standards body tasked with developing the technical standards for payments technologies, last week announced the availability of 3D Secure 2.0. Collectively, we at RSA congratulate EMVCo on this eagerly anticipated release. As an EMVCo Technical Associate, we were privileged to contribute to the development of the specifications and truly believe that the…

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Stirring Up GRC Ghosts at RSA Charge 2016

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We held RSA Charge 2016 in New Orleans, the week prior to Halloween, in the “most haunted city in America” – and what a phenomenal turnout! We were thrilled to have more 2,000 attendees register and join us in person to share best practices for GRC, security and business risk management.  The conference proved again…

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