critical infrastructure

At DEF CON 29, a researcher explained why agricultural machinery should be considered critical infrastructure and demonstrated vulnerabilities in the main manufacturers’ equipment.

We trace how the perception of hackers has evolved based on the classic traffic-light-hacking scheme in three versions (British, American, Indian) of The Italian Job.

Even if a computer is physically isolated, data can be stolen from it using some very unusual methods.

Industrial Norwegian giant Hydro hit by ransomware — security incident analysis.

Ten mistakes that led to the destruction of the Death Star.

Guess the villain — was it hackers or wild animals?

An unwitting army of connected devices caused an insane disruption of major Internet sites. IoT users need to wise up.

After many years of working with clients trying to protect their industrial systems you learn one thing: critical infrastructure needs special attention.

Up close and personal, one Kaspersky Labs editor’s experience with the system failure at Delta Air Lines.

Kaspersky Lab experts checked industrial control systems for vulnerabilities and found lots of them.

Israel’s Electric Authority – an agency in charge of regulating and overseeing the distribution of electricity in Israel – had to mitigate what officials there called a “severe cyber attack.”

“Retrofitted and added cybersecurity” is not an option for the Smart Cities concept: risks are too dire to build “seven cities of cyber-Troy” upon each other. Our position here is that cybersecurity should be considered early on, at every possible level.

The word “IoT” (Internet of Things) has been a buzz word for several years now. It has become the era when more home electronics and cars are connected to the

Critical infrastructure operators are often reluctant to deploy full-scale anti-malware protection. They are worried about compatibility, performance, compliance, and the most important thing: possible downtime. But our research shows that malware is the true enemy.

Brian Donohue interviews Adam Firestone, President and General Manager of Kaspersky Government Security Solutions, about why critical infrastructure systems are insecure, and why added on security does not work.

Igor Soumenkov, a Kaspersky Lab contributor to the Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs script assessment, explains how close to real life the game world is.

In March I spoke at Cyber Intelligence Asia 2014, where CERTs from most Asians countries were presented. The fact is that only a few CERTs are now dealing in some