Background: In late July 2017, I discovered vulnerabilities in a number of AutomationDirect’s industrial control products, particularly around the programming and interaction software. These vulnerabilities can be exploited by placing a crafted DLL file in the software search path which is loaded prior to a valid DLL, allowing an attacker to hijack the DLL and […]
The year was 1999; what an awesome year!! The Y2K bug made us all rich (or poor)… we all started to see dead people using our Sixth Sense … and primary coloured drugs became all the rage as we followed the white rabbit into The Matrix. On top of all that excitement, a couple of […]
At a recent forum, I was asked a very simple question; “Is it really ‘that’ important to secure our IoT devices?” Whilst the answer may seem quite obvious, the real question is why? Why is it ‘that’ important to secure our IoT devices? What could possibly go wrong with insecure deployments? In late September, the […]