In this second of two reports, we continue with a summary of the January 2006 BlackHat Federal Conference presentation by David Maynor, who was at that time an R&D research engineer for Internet ...

Computerized process-control systems run some of the most critical infrastructures in the U.S., such as power utilities, water treatment plants, chemical plants and mass-transit systems. Until ...

Like Cliff Claven (the jovial factoid-sharing postal carrier of the syndicated television comedy, "Cheers"), I'm easily enthralled by trivia. For example, I bet you didn't know that Hells Canyon, ...

The U.S. currently faces a growing threat from cyber-attacks against its critical infrastructure (CI) vital to our modern society. Many understand this growing threat but don’t know the origins of a ...

Calvin Hennick is a freelance journalist who specializes in business and technology writing. He is a contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. Heavy-industry firms — including energy ...

A defense-in-depth architecture built around a dual-data model reduces the risk of supervisory control and data acquisition networks being hacked or their data being stolen. The dual-data approach ...

As the U.S. bulk power system continues to focus on distributed energy resources (DERs) for more of our overall electricity needs, the ability of the grid operators, power marketers, and reliability ...

Calvin Hennick is a freelance journalist who specializes in business and technology writing. He is a contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. The threat landscape facing companies in ...

The use of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) devices is growing. That growth is expected to continue to soar. According to research firm Frost & Sullivan SCADA revenues will grow from ...

There was a time when the thought of hacking a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system would have been more likely to be part of a fictional movie plot than a news story. Yet the ...

In a slide presentation from the January 2006 BlackHat Federal Conference, David Maynor, was who was at that time an R&D research engineer for Internet Systems Security (ISS) X-Force and colleague ...