Critical vulnerability in Citect's SCADA software
Core Security Technologies issued an advisory disclosing a vulnerability that could severely impact organizations relying on Citect’s flagship industrial process control software, CitectSCADA. This discovery indicates that thousands of companies using Citect’s SCADA systems could unknowingly be exposing critical industrial processes and assets that they otherwise sought to protect...[Read More]
Cyber Incident Blamed for Nuclear Power Plant Shutdown
A nuclear power plant in Georgia was recently forced into an emergency shutdown for 48 hours after a software update was installed on a single computer. [Read More]
Florida Power Failure
A relatively minor glitch in Florida's electrical grid somehow triggered a chain reaction on February 26, 2008 that caused a nuclear plant to shut down... [Read More]
Schoolboy Hacks Into City's Tram System
This attack on the transportation system is yet another example of the risk of secondary pathways back doors into control systems, in this case a wireless transmitter for track switch control. [Read More]
Russia Accused of Unleashing Cyberwar
A three-week wave of massive cyber-attacks on the small Baltic country of Estonia, the first known incidence of such an assault on a state, is causing alarm across the western alliance, with Nato urgently examining the offensive and its implications. [Read More]
Pennsylvania Water Hack Brings Total to Ten
The news of an FBI report of a foreign hacker penetrating security at a Harrisburg, Pa. water filtering plant bring the total of ISID and WaterISAC recorded incidents against water systems to ten. [Read More]
Nuclear Plant Shut Down by Network Trouble
Operators at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant in Alabama were forced to do an emergency shut down after network packet storms caused the drives operating the recirculation system to fail last August. The network storm impacted both the primary and back-up systems. [Read More]
The Pizza Plot - A Tale of Corporate Espionage
So you don’t think that your company’s manufacturing or SCADA data is valuable to anyone else? Read this fascinating tale of how Schwan's used production information from a Kraft plant in Sussex, WS. to reshape the store-bought pizza market. It wasn't cyber driven, but it sure could have been... [Read More]
Maroochy Shire Sewage Spill - The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth
The appeal court records on the most famous cyber-security SCADA incident in the world. These attacks caused millions of liters of sewage to spill into surrounding creeks, parks and a major hotel. [Read More]
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