Tag Archives: Critical Infrastructure

Series of Buffer Overflows Plague Many Yokogawa ICS Products

There is a series of stack buffer overflows in nearly 20 ICS products manufactured by Japanese vendor Yokogawa that can lead to remote code execution.  The bugs affect a long list of the company’s products, which are used in a variety of industries around the world. The Yokogawa products are mainly control systems, plant-management systems, event-analysis […]

Government Releases Policy on Vulnerability Discovery and Disclosure

After more than a year of legal wrangling, the federal government has agreed to hand over its policy on vulnerability use and disclosure. The government had said that the policy was classified and too sensitive to release, but relented late last week and sent the document to the EFF, albeit a heavily redacted version. Know as […]

APT Group Gets Selective About Data it Steals

Dell SecureWorks researchers today at Black Hat released a new report on Emissary Panda, or TG-3390, a China-sponsored APT gang that has refined the types of data it covets.

Census Project Identifies Open Source Tools at Risk

The Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative announced it was releasing to open source data from the Census Project, which uses metrics identify under-resourced open source projects at risk.

TCP Vulnerability Haunts Wind River VxWorks Embedded OS

There is a TCP prediction vulnerability in Wind River’s widely deployed VxWorks embedded software that can enable an attacker to disrupt or spoof the TCP connections to and from target devices. VxWorks is an embedded operating system that’s used in a large number of ICS products that are deployed in sectors such as energy, water, […]