As enterprise and control networks continue the trend toward tighter integration, cyber security on both sides must improve. TNC, from the Trusted Computing Group, offers an innovative solution. This article describes how the Tofino Industrial Security Solution would be used with MAP technology to manage network access and protection for legacy SCADA and control devices.....
Computer-based network attacks are slowly bleeding U.S. businesses of revenue and market advantage, while the government faces the prospect of losing in an all-out cyber war, experts told Senators in a hearing on Tuesday.
A report based on an analysis processed in 2009 by the ScanSafe Threat Center on behalf of the company's corporate customers in more than 100 countries reflecting cyberattack trends world-wide.
An article by the New York Times highlighting countries and particular attack venues via software for 2010. Also outlined are concerns and fears from some of the world's most prominent software and hardware manufacturers.
A new report on international cybersecurity argues that the Internet is a Hobbesian "state of nature" where anything goes, where even government attacks maintain "plausible deniability," and where 80 percent of industrial control software is hooked into an IP network.
At least three US oil companies were the target of a series of cyber attacks that may have originated in China. Experts say the level of sophistication in the growing global war of Internet espionage is increasing.
A public-private group the Energy Department is forming to better secure the nation's electric grid from cyberattacks must be given strong regulatory and budgetary authority to drive sweeping changes to computer networks, security specialists said.
Most IT professionals are pretty confident that they know what applications and operating systems are running on their desktops and servers. Unfortunately, the same doesn't hold true for the control systems running the World's critical national infrastructures.
A one-hour documentary that offers an unprecedented glimpse into the world's newest and most vulnerable frontier: cyberspace. We enter the world of hackers like Mafia Boy - a 15 year old high school student who rose to infamy in 2000 by causing millions of dollars in damage after single-handedly shutting down internet giants - including Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, Dell, eTrade, and CNN.
Web Warriors premiered on the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. on November 20 2008, and features interviews with Eric Byres and other prominent security experts. The entire video can be viewed online by following this link to the CBC web site.
Digital Bond poses these two questions to Eric Byres, CTO of Tofino Security: What was the most interesting control system security story of 2008?; and: What is your prediction for 2009?
For anyone who attended the SANS 2009 SCADA and Process Control Summit recently, it became clear that the convergence of IT security and physical security is accelerating.
The Obama administration plans to create a new military command to coordinate the defense of Pentagon computer networks and improve U.S. offensive capabilities in cyberwarfare, according to current and former officials familiar with the plans.
A virus outbreak is wreaking havoc with Integral Energy's computer network, forcing it to rebuild all 1000 of its desktop computers before the "particularly sinister" bug spreads to the machines controlling the power grid....
