A recent White House report on big data wonders aloud about the capability of sensors and smart meters to turn homes into fish tanks, completely transparent to marketers, police -- and criminals.
The Boeing Company is pioneering a way to securely bring together business IT networks with what ordinarily are entirely separate networks for industrial-control systems (ICS) in order to gain efficiencies and benefits in information-sharing in manufacturing.
The government is calling on industry to provide evidence on what it thinks is the best ‘organisational standard’ for effective cyber risk management, which it will then endorse as the preferred approach.
If a cyberattack from a hostile foreign source ever hit a public electric or water utility, affecting its industrial control systems, causing America's critical infrastructures to fail, would we understand that had even happened? We have more doubts than ever, after every twist and turn in the saga that began with the Nov. 10 "Public Water District Cyber Intrusion" report from the Illinois Statewide Terrorism & Intelligence Center (STIC) that set off a media firestorm after the report was leaked to the media.
As new information about Duqu continues to come out, some experts are starting to question whether the danger posed by the trojan has been exaggerated.
Efforts to strengthen critical infrastructure targets continue to focus on front-end systems rather than on underlying industrial control systems where the real problems exist, security experts warned this week.
Multi-core processors promise a big performance boost for servers, PCs and even smartphones, but much work remains to get the most out of these new chips. <a href="http://news.ncsu.edu/releases/wms-solihin-prefetching/">North Carolina State University researchers</a> are among those seeking to maximize what multi-core processors have to offer.
Siemens said it intends to fix a vulnerability discovered in its industrial control system products, but the NSS Labs researcher who found the bug says the company seems to be downplaying the seriousness of the problem to save face.
Although a public talk about new vulnerabilities found in Siemens industrial control systems (ICS) was pulled yesterday from a conference agenda due to its sensitive nature, the head of the vulnerability-test group that discovered the security holes said it expects Siemens will soon have a fix and will be discussing it.
If you thought the <a href="http://www.fcc.gov/">Federal Communications Commission</a>'s <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/122210-fcc-net-neutrality.html">vote to approve</a> limited net neutrality rules were the end of the dispute, think again.