Hackers are regularly trying to break into the country's key commercial and industrial networks, said the UK government's security minister Lord West of Spithead in August this year. Yet disturbingly, the cyber threat to SCADA systems has been met with laxity and complacency – when it's even acknowledged in the first place....
Press coverage of the announcement that the Tofino Industrial Security Solution has been selected by Yokogawa Electric Corporation as its first industrial firewall.....
The days of teenage hobbyist hackers who break into systems just to prove they can do it is over. Today hacking is big business by criminal organizations.....
A teenage boy who hacked into a Polish tram system used it like "a giant train set", causing chaos and derailing four vehicles. The 14-year-old, described by his teachers as a model pupil and an electronics "genius", adapted a television remote control so it could change track points in the city of Lodz....
A technology designed to protect SCADA and other control systems from attacks by hackers and cyber-saboteurs, has successfully completed a programme of beta testing.....
A technology designed to protect SCADA and other control systems from attacks by hackers and cyber-saboteurs, has successfully completed a programme of beta testing.....
A three-week wave of massive cyber-attacks on the small Baltic country of Estonia, the first known incidence of such an assault on a state, is causing alarm across the western alliance, with Nato urgently examining the offensive and its implications....
In the world today, we are relying more and more on the safety and security of software systems. The traditional view of safety-critical software is that it is concerned with avoiding logic bugs that could cause loss of life, whereas security concerns are about preventing unauthorized access and tampering. But are these two concerns really different?
An infected laptop PC gave hackers access to computer systems at a Harrisburg, Pa., water treatment plant earlier this month. The plant's systems were accessed in early October after an employee's laptop computer was compromised via the Internet and then used as an entry point to install a computer virus and spyware on the plant's computer system, according to a report by ABC News....
A round of Internet worm infections knocked 13 of DaimlerChryslers U.S. auto manufacturing plants offline for almost an hour in August 2005, stranding some 50,000 auto workers as infected Microsoft Windows systems were patched....
An Australian man was sent to prison for two years after he was found guilty of hacking into the Maroochy Shire, Queensland computerised waste management system and caused millions of litres of raw sewage to spill out into local parks, rivers and even the grounds of a Hyatt Regency hotel....
