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Tofino® architect Eric Byres awarded rare ISA honour

Summaries and links to media articles about Byres Security Chief Technology Officer, Eric Byres, becoming an ISA Fellow...

Contractor pleads guilty to SCADA tampering

A former IT consultant for an oil and gas exploration company has pleaded guilty to tampering with the company's computer systems after he was turned down for a permanent position with the company....

Byres Security teams with Juniper Networks to secure SCADA with Tofino® solution

Summaries and links to media articles about the announcement of Byres Security teaming with Juniper Networks to secure SCADA with Tofino® solution....

Gas refineries at Defcon 1 as SCADA exploit goes wild

Gasoline refineries, manufacturing plants and other critical facilities that rely on computerized control systems just became more vulnerable to tampering or sabotage with the release of attack code that exploits a security flaw in a widely used piece of software....

Tofino powers new Honeywell OneWireless Firewall

Summaries and links to media articles about the announcement that Tofino will power the New Honeywell OneWireless Firewall....

Belden and Byres Security join forces to develop rugged industrial network security products

Summaries and links to media articles about the announcement that Belden and Byres Security are partnering.....

Was North Korea behind the US DDOS attacks?

The cyberattacks that took down prominent US and South Korean websites in the last week have apparently ended but the search for those responsible is only just beginning. ....

New Tofino™ VPN module secures remote SCADA communication

Summaries and links to media articles about the announcement of the new Tofino VPN module....

Buggy 'smart meters' open door to power-grid botnet

New electricity meters being rolled out to millions of homes and businesses are riddled with security bugs that could bring down the power grid, according to a security researcher who plans to demonstrate several attacks at a security conference next month ....

Boeing protects SCADA devices with Tofino

Boeing and the Trusted Computing Group demonstrated how the Tofino Industrial Security Solution will be used by Boeing to manage network access and protection for legacy SCADA and control devices.....

Computer spies breach fighter-jet project

Computer spies have broken into the Pentagon's $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter project -- the Defense Department's costliest weapons program ever -- according to current and former government officials familiar with the attacks....

Taking a lesson in federal compliance from the chemical industry

Honeywell's Jon Harmon says the industry's response to CFATS provides a model for compliance with stringent federal security requirements....

CSO Online, April 9, 2009

Taking a Lesson in Federal Compliance from the Chemical Industry

A distinction with a difference in SCADA security

When you're talking about cybersecurity in the process industries, there are only two issues that matter. The first is how much security you need to be really secure....

Electricity grid in U.S. penetrated by spies

Cyberspies have penetrated the U.S. electrical grid and left behind software programs that could be used to disrupt the system, according to current and former national-security officials....

Expert: Hackers penetrating control systems

Article from: PCWorld, March 19, 2009

The networks powering industrial control systems have been breached more than 125 times in the past decade, with one resulting in U.S. deaths, a control systems expert said Thursday....

Byres Research and exida merge

Another Byres company, Byres Research Inc., has merged with exida to form the world’s first company offering functional safety and security certification and consultation.....

Know the risks of running industrial control systems on IP networks

In the never-ending quest to save money and boost performance, many organizations are migrating their industrial control systems onto IP networks. As network engineers get to know these new systems, they must tread carefully -- one mistake can lead to disaster....

Critical infrastructure prime target for cyber criminals in 2009

The year 2008 was a time security threats and malicious activity reached a tipping point, and 2009 stands to be the year critical infrastructure systems become prime targets for cyber criminals and the global financial crisis will be exploited for a variety of malicious activities, according to a new report recently released from VeriSign's iDefense Security Intelligence Services....

Pentagon bans computer flash drives

The Pentagon has banned, at least temporarily, the use of external computer flash drives because of a virus threat officials detected on Defense Department networks....

Tofino™ Enforcer revolutionizes Modbus TCP/IP security

Summaries and links to media articles about the announcement of Tofino Security and MTL Instruments introducing the Tofino™ Modbus TCP Enforcer™ Loadable Security Module (LSM)....

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