The security of critical infrastructure is in the spotlight again this week after a researcher released attack code that can exploit several vulnerabilities found in systems used at oil-, gas- and ...

Customized Russelectric ® supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems enable users to monitor system operation, acknowledge alarms, and review PLC set points and alarm history. The basic ...

As utilities become more interconnected, and increasingly reliant on remote communications capabilities including automated metering, their elderly supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) ...

Researchers have found vulnerabilities in industrial control systems that they say grant full control of systems running energy, chemical and transportation systems. The vulnerabilities were ...

Unauthorized access into a SCADA system in order to cause harm. Pumps and motors are made to run faster than normal, equipment is turned on and off, and valves and controls are switched erroneously, ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. Little-known fact: The power plant able to generate the most ...

Hackers are using the Shodan computer search engine to find Internet-facing SCADA systems using potentially insecure mechanisms for authentication and authorization, according to a warning from ...

A sophisticated new piece of malware that targets command-and-control software installed in critical infrastructures uses a known default password that the software maker hard-coded into its system.

Gas, electricity, water and transport systems controlled by Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems are vulnerable to malware infection because of a lack of PC patching and anti-virus ...