As the details of STUXNET’s design unfolded last fall, like many, I was truly impressed by the pin-point precision that the malware authors used to ensure that their target, and only their target, was impacted by the virus. In this regard, STUXNET may be one of the…
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Entries tagged with: Nss Labs
- by Michael Medoff , CFSE, CISA
- Wednesday, June 01, 2011
- Industrial Cybersecurity
Industrial automation is in the cross hairs of the hacker
- by Michael Medoff , CFSE, CISA
- Wednesday, August 10, 2011
- Industrial Cybersecurity
Keeping “Dancing Monkeys” out of your PLC
Last week a security researcher, Dillon Beresford of NSS Labs, presented at the Blackhat conference on the security vulnerabilities he found in Siemens PLC firmware. One of many stories on Dillon’s findings can be found here. Among other things, Dillon found “dancing monkeys” in the code! Actually,…