Knocking down the legs of the industrial security triad. [Research Saturday]

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🗓️ 11 February 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Pascal Ackerman, OT Security Strategist from Guidepoint Security, joins Dave to discuss his work on discovering a vulnerability in the integrity of common HMI client-server protocol. This research is a Proof of Concept (PoC) attack on the integrity of data flowing across the industrial network with the intention of intercepting, viewing, and even manipulating values sent to (and from) the HMI, ultimately trying to trick the user into making a wrong decision, ultimately affecting the proper operation of the process. In this research, they are targeting Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk View SE products, trying to highlight the lack of integrity and confidentiality on the production network and the effect that has on the overall security of the production environment. The research can be found here: GuidePoint Security researcher discovers vulnerability in the integrity of common HMI client-server protocol Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.7	Search your first call to discover how SRM can help your business. Hello everyone and welcome to the CyberWire's research Saturday.
1:27.0	I'm Dave Bitner and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts tracking down the threats and vulnerabilities,
1:34.1	solving some of the hard problems of protecting ourselves in a rapidly evolving cyberspace.
1:39.7	Thanks for joining us. Pretty much industrial control systems are all around us, right?
1:51.0	Everything we touch is either directly controlled by one of these systems or it's
1:56.0	fabricated by one of these systems. So an industrial control system is a bunch of peripherals that
2:02.2	combined make a product or ship a good or a service to somebody.
2:07.0	That's Pascal Ackerman. He's a senior security consultant forational Technology and Threat and Attack Simulation
2:15.0	at Guidepoint Security.
2:17.0	The research is titled Guidepoint Security Researcher discovers vulnerability in the
2:21.4	integrity of common HMI client server protocol.
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