Earlier this year I attended the Public Safety Canada Industrial Control System Security symposium in Charlottetown, PEI (FYI the PSC ICS events are outstanding - worth attending, even if you are not Canadian). While there, I had a chance to meet with an old friend, Andrew Ginter, Vice President of Industrial Security at Waterfall Security Solutions. We chatted about an issue I’ve been interested in – or, dare I say, obsessed with – for a while now:...

Last Wednesday (September 11), the U.S. Department of Defense released a draft of its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) for public comment. The idea is for the DoD to create a unified framework for defense contractor cybersecurity.

Our own Jonathan Butts and Billy Rios were interviewed this month on the CBS Morning News about their research showing that medical devices like pacemakers and insulin pumps can be hacked by… basically anybody.  These devices all contain embedded controllers, but unlike most modern computer technologies, they haven’t been designed with security in mind.

On 24 August 2018 Schneider Electric issued a security notification alerting users that the Communications and Battery Monitoring devices for their Conext Solar Energy Monitoring Systems  were shipped with malware-infected USB drives.

Back in 2014, when I was managing Tofino Security, I became very interested in the Dragonfly attacks against industrial control systems (ICS). I was particularly fascinated with the ways that the attackers exploited the trust between ICS suppliers and their customers. Frankly, this scared me because, as I will explain, I knew that all the firewalls, antivirus, whitelisting, and patching in the world would do little to protect us from this threat.