Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the nuclear power plant ‘disruption,’ the StrongPity APT group, and the proliferation of IoT botnets.

The head of an international nuclear energy consortium said this week that a cyber attack caused a ‘disruption’ at a nuclear power plant in the last several years.

Government ICS report reveals access control a major issue for sector along with nagging issues around poor code quality and cryptography.

The Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) cautioned users who work in electrical substations to update certain builds of energy automation software this week. ICS-CERT claims two vulnerabilities exist in the Siemens SICAM Power Automation System, or PAS, that could enable an attacker to reconstruct passwords and obtain sensitive information under certain conditions. Siemens, the German...

A vulnerability that exists in embedded computers manufactured by Moxa could allow remote authenticated users to overwrite firmware, in turn rendering the devices unusable. Moxa, a Taiwan-based networking company, announced recently that instead of patching the line of products affected by the vulnerability, UC 7408-LX-Plus, it would discontinue the devices. The Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT)...

A number of publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in Moxa networking gear won’t be patched until August, if at all, according to an alert published on Friday by the Industrial Control System Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT). Researcher Joakim Kennedy of Rapid7 disclosed in March some details affecting critical flaws in Moxa NPort 6110 Modbus/TCP to serial...

More than 1,400 vulnerabilities exist in a widely used drug cabinet system, according to an advisory issued by the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) on Tuesday. The problems exist in Pyxis SupplyStation, an automated medical supply cabinet manufactured by CareFusion. The systems, common in nursing setups in facilities across the healthcare sector,...