“With SCADA software being primarily responsible for critical operations and national infrastructures, an attack of this nature could not only result in the loss of data, but can also cause damage to ...

Our critical infrastructure is an attractive target for enemy nations, terrorist groups, or even run-of-the-mill cyber criminals, and many security experts believe that it is not remotely protected ...

As renewable energy expands, the systems that support wind, solar, and battery storage must operate with precision and ...

The first time Scott Lunsford offered to hack into a nuclear power station, he was told it would be impossible. There was no way, the plant's owners claimed, that their critical components could be ...

With a new Stuxnet 2 (W32.Duqu) now found and the Department of Homeland Security warning of a possible security attack by Anonymous, it probably is a good start to define some security solutions to ...

There is a trend in Enterprise SCADA toward larger systems controlling more assets from a single location within the pipeline company. As additional control systems are required for new assets, ...

When your business covers hundreds of square miles, the health of your infrastructure becomes very important, as in this example of a typical, large water company, serving the water and wastewater ...

A trio of researchers have uncovered 25 security vulnerabilities in various supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and industrial control system (ICS) protocols. A trio of researchers have ...

Australia's critical infrastructure is still under threat due to a shortage of educational resources, according to researchers and security experts. The major concern is security of Supervisory ...

Remember Firesheep . . . the addon that was so easy to use that even the clueless could successfully hack Facebook and Twitter accounts via Wi-Fi? In some scarier than your average security news, ...

Critical infrastructure systems – many of them aging and outdated – continue to show fraying around the edges, opening up the power grid, water plants, industrial control systems and more to nefarious ...