ADC Attacks Can Cause Damage in Industrial Environments

Malicious actors could cause physical damage by exploiting flaws in how analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are used in industrial environments, researchers warned. ADCs are electronic devices that convert analog signals, such as voltage or amperage, into digital signals. In industrial environments, ADCs can be used to produce a digital number from an analog signal coming from…

Flaw in Schneider Industrial Firewalls Allows Remote Code Execution

On Wednesday, at SecurityWeek’s 2016 ICS Cyber Security Conference, in a presentation meant to demonstrate that attackers could easily bypass defenses if proper ICS protection technologies are not in place, researchers at industrial security firm CyberX disclosed the existence of several important flaws. One of them affects Schneider Electric’s ConneXium TCSEFEC family of industrial ethernet…