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Industrial Control Systems

Part Two: Duqu: father, son, or unholy ghost of Stuxnet?

Jeremy Sparks, Robert M. Lee, and Paul Brandau, cyberspace officers November 09, 2011

Three U.S. Air Force information security experts, independent of their role in the military, studied the Duqu trojan, and you might be surprised by what they found. This is the second article in a two-part series that examines the sophisticated threat that everyone is talking about.

Duqu: father, son, or unholy ghost of Stuxnet?

Jeremy Sparks, Robert M. Lee, and Paul Brandau, cyberspace officers November 02, 2011

Three U.S. Air Force information security experts, independent of their role in the military, studied the Duqu trojan, and you might be surprised by what they found. This is the first article in a two-part series that examines the sophisticated threat that everyone is talking about.

Duqu trojan spreads through 0-day Microsoft bug

Dan Kaplan November 01, 2011

A piece of malware that has drawn comparisons to the notorious Stuxnet worm is using an unknown Windows kernel vulnerability to infect its targets.

New malware appears carrying Stuxnet code

Dan Kaplan October 18, 2011

A sibling of one of the most complex and potentially menacing computer worms ever created has impacted roughly five Europe-based manufacturers of industrial control systems, security researchers said Tuesday.

Researchers pull their SCADA talk over exploit fears

Dan Kaplan May 19, 2011

A scheduled talk on vulnerabilities in industrial control systems, which operate things like power plants and oil refineries, was shelved Wednesday after the affected vendor was unable to develop a working fix in time.