IOActive Industrial Security, Switches Get Stitches →

April 29, 2015 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, ICS, ICS/SCADA, Information Security, Smart Grids

SANS ICS Rebuttal of Norse Iran Report v1.1

SANS ICS Defense Use Case: The Norse / AEI Rebuttal →

April 29, 2015 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Alternate Attack Analysis, Information Security, ICS, ICS/SCADA

Superb rebuttal co-authored by Robert M. Lee, CAPT USAF (see Captain Lee's personal rebuttal of the NORSE and AEI document here), Michael J. Assante Co-Founder and Chief Security Strategist, NexDefense, Inc., and Tim Conway, ICS and SCADA Technical Training Director at SANS targeting the report entitled "The Growing Cyberthreat from Iran: The Initial Report of Project Pistaschio Harvest" produced by Norse and the American Enterprise Institute. Read it and Weep.

Alexanders' Warning: Catastrophic Attacks on Energy Sector in the Offing

April 28, 2015 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Common Sense, Cyberwar, Electronic Warfare, Government, ICS, ICS/SCADA, Information Security, Intelligence, USNSA

via David Bisson, writing at Tripwire's State of Security blog, comes a particularly dire warning from Keith Alexander, GEN (RET) USA (RET), holder of a Bronze Star and the 16th Director of the United States National Security Agency, focusing on the security bulwarks of the embattled Energy Sector.

IOActive Industrial Security, Stages of a SCADA Attack →

April 21, 2015 by Marc Handelman in ICS, ICS/SCADA, Network Security, Information Security

One Million Attacks Per Day

April 02, 2015 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Cyberwar, Information Security, ICS, SCADA

Meanwhile, in astounding-security-attack-numbers-per-diem news, comes a remarkable litany of the resilience within the State of Israel's power grid, from Israel Electric Corporation Chairman Yiftah Ron-Ta. He describes the nearly one million attacks the utility fended off daily basis during the Summer 2014's Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Operation Protective Edge.