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Following is a list of publicly available articles and publications about industrial cyber security, breaches and attacks, and other related events.

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McAfee FOCUS: Critical Infrastructure Security Requires Partnerships

LAS VEGAS - McAfee FOCUS 2012 - Solving security challenges to critical infrastructure companies requires partnerships between vendors, a panel of solution providers and experts said today at McAfee's Focus conference in Las Vegas. Working closely with suppliers, explained Gary Woodward, director of business development at Emerson Process more

Westinghouse picks McAfee to protect nuclear control systems

An agreement between Westinghouse Electric Company and McAfee will see the former provide McAfee Enterprise Security Manager and Network Intrusion Protection to new and existing nuclear power plants. "This agreement will help us deliver cyber security in accordance with some of our industry associations' best practices and guidelines," more

Protecting critical infrastructure in the digital age

Critical infrastructure protection (CIP) has been one of the primary roles of armies throughout history. Dr Gareth Evans discovers how our increasing dependence on modern communication, transport and commodity networks are being threatened by modern forms of warfare, as we go deeper into the digital age. While the character of the key assets more

Paranoia Means Better Security

“You need to be paranoid. You need to assume your system is under attack,” said Andrew Ginter, director of industrial security at Waterfall Security Solutions. That is part of what a user must think about when they are a victim of an advanced persistent threat (APT) like Stuxnet, Ginter said during his talk Tuesday with Joel Langill, chief technology officer at more

Waterfall and One Way Security

1. Waterfall Has More Control System “Connectors” A “connector” allows what is typically two-way traffic to be sent through a one-way security device. You essentially install a protocol or application client / server on both sides of their device. The secure side server gets the information as usual, then pushes it out to the insecure side server using more

Following Stuxnet Trojan, NERC security chief calls for rugged software

The security chief at the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) is calling for better designed and more hardened systems in the wake of the Stuxnet malware threat. The Stuxnet Trojan quickly gained the attention of the security industry because it was one of the first pieces of malware to use multiple previously unknown vulnerabilities. more

Firewall Configuration Errors Revisited

Abstract: Practically every corporation that is connected to the Internet uses firewalls as the first line of its cyber-defense. However, the protection that these firewalls provide is only as good as the policy they are configured to implement. The first quantitative evaluation of the quality of corporate firewall configurations appeared in 2004, based on Check Point more

New threat: Hackers look to take over power plants

Computer hackers have begun targeting power plants and other critical operations around the world in bold new efforts to seize control of them, setting off a scramble to shore up aging, vulnerable systems. Cyber criminals have long tried, at times successfully, to break into vital networks and power systems. But last month, experts for the first time discovered more

DHS Ramping Up Defense of Critical Control Systems

The discovery of the first worm to target networks controlling power plants points has prompted an expansion of specialized forensic teams to combat the cybersecurity threat. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to ramp up a program that sends specialized forensic teams to combat the cybersecurity threat on U.S. critical control systems more

Siemens Gets Attacked by Trojan

In the USA today, Siemens is strongly warning its users that Trojan, which is the name of a certain malware program is directly targeting PCS 7 as well as Simatic WinCC. This virus is further distributed with the use of USB memory sticks. The sad part is that it is very good at taking advantage of the present vulnerabilities of Microsoft security. more

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