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Oldsmar’s Cyber Attack Raises the Alarm for the Water Industry

Cisco Security

Someone on the Internet successfully accessed the computer controlling the chemicals used to treat drinking water for the city and changed the level of sodium hydroxide to 11,100 parts per million (ppm), a significant increase from the normal amount of 100 ppm. How did this industrial workstation become accessible from the Internet?

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Too much UPnP-enabled connected devices still vulnerable to cyber attacks

Security Affairs

. “The hackers behind it reportedly took advantage of poorly configured routers that had the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) service enabled, which caused the routers to forward public ports to the private devices and be open to the public internet,” reads the analysis published by Yang.

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A Reflection On ForAllSecure's Journey In Bootstrapping Behavior Testing Technology

ForAllSecure

Network filters applied by solutions like Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) aim to solve symptoms, not the root cause. To learn more about the synergistic power of symbolic execution and fuzzing, download the “What is Behavior Testing” whitepaper here. This is an easy band-aid. How do we know which software to fix?

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A Reflection On ForAllSecure's Journey In Bootstrapping Behavior Testing Technology

ForAllSecure

Network filters applied by solutions like Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) aim to solve symptoms, not the root cause. To learn more about the synergistic power of symbolic execution and fuzzing, download the “What is Behavior Testing” whitepaper here. This is an easy band-aid. How do we know which software to fix?

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A REFLECTION ON FORALLSECURE'S JOURNEY IN BOOTSTRAPPING BEHAVIOR TESTING TECHNOLOGY

ForAllSecure

Network filters applied by solutions like Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) aim to solve symptoms, not the root cause. To learn more about the synergistic power of symbolic execution and fuzzing, download the “What is Behavior Testing” whitepaper here. This is an easy band-aid. How do we know which software to fix?