Is critical infrastructure any more secure than it was a year ago, or five years ago? Well according to three different reports from experts, it doesn’t seem like it. Instead, it seems like critical ...

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 ...

Industrial control systems such as SCADA systems sit squarely at the intersection of the digital and physical worlds. They're vulnerable, they're unpatchable, and they're connected to the Internet.

Critical national infrastructures such as the National Grid, water and other utility networks have SCADA technology at their heart. SCADA-driven systems are typically found in industrial systems such ...

Though the Department of Homeland Security isn’t yet ready to call the recent system failure at an Illinois water-processing plant an act of cyberterrorism -- a direct contradiction of an initial ...

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We’ve covered the troubles with SCADA security at length, but have yet to see a real consensus on how to proceed. Amol Sarwate, security research manager at Qualys, took a crack at making sense of ...

It’s never comfortable to talk about data breaches, but companies rarely have a choice. Whether a company reports a system breach because it’s required to, or whether the media picks up on the story ...

Over the past several years, the City of Orlando Public Works Department has installed extensive high-technology upgrades and automation systems in its three wastewater treatment plants, vastly ...

Many critical national infrastructure systems include supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) functionality. These systems can be viewed as the set of software, computers and networks that ...