National Protection and Programs Directorate Washington – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today the formation and chartering of the nation’s first Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Supply Chain Risk Management Task Force,…
National Protection and Programs Directorate Washington – Senior officials from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) met today with members of the Sector Coordinating Council (SCC) for the Election Infrastructure Subsector and conducted a classified…
DHS has made significant progress since 9/11 in enhancing the security of the nation’s critical physical infrastructure as well as its cyber infrastructure and networks. Today’s threats to cybersecurity require the engagement of the entire…
Overview This ICS-CERT Advisory is a follow-up to ICS-ALERT-11-080-01. An independent researcher has identified six vulnerabilities in the Siemens Tecnomatix FactoryLink supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) product. The researcher has also publicly released exploit…
Overview The sun generates solar flare and coronal mass ejection (CME) events in an approximate 11-year cycle. The plasma clouds generated from these events have the potential to cause geomagnetic storms that can interfere with…
Overview ICS-CERT has received a report from independent security researcher Dan Rosenberg with Virtual Security Research (VSR) of an unauthenticated Structured Query Language (SQL) vulnerability in the Ecava IntegraXor human machine interface (HMI) product that…
Overview This advisory is a follow-up to ICS-ALERT-11-066-01 – WellinTech KingView 6.53 ActiveX Vulnerability, published on the ICS-CERT Web page on March 7, 2011. An independent security researcher reported a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in…
Overview An independent security researcher has published information to a vulnerability disclosure website regarding a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Wonderware InBatch and I/A Series Batch software products (all supported versions). According to the researcher’s…
Overview Researchers at Digital Bond have identified multiple vulnerabilities in the Control Microsystems ClearSCADA application. The following vulnerabilities have been identified: Heap Overflow Vulnerability Cross-site Scripting Vulnerabilities Insecure Web Authentication. Affected Products The following ClearSCADA…
Overview McAfee has published a white paper titled “Global Energy Cyberattacks: Night Dragon,”McAfee, http://www.mcafee.com/us/resources/white-papers/wp-global-energy-cyberattacks-night-dragon.pdf, accessed February 10, 2011. which describes advanced persistent threat activity designed to obtain sensitive data from targeted organizations in the global…