Digital Bond’s 5th Annual SCADA Security Scientific Symposium [S4] will be January 19 – 20, 2011 in beautiful Miami Beach. The Call for Papers is out.
Two things I want to highlight about the S4 Call for Papers.
1. Our speaker program is the most generous in the control system security event space. Of course we waive [...]

Yesterday I received a few of the Raven ZigBee USB sticks with the KillerBee firmware loaded on it, thank you Joshua Wright. I grabbed the latest version of Killerbee and started playing around with KillerBee and the ZigBee sticks. KillerBee is an 802.15.4 exploration and exploitation framework. It was extremely easy to get running, I [...]

It took a while, but at long last the 2010 edition of Proceedings of the SCADA Security Scientific Symposium [S4] is now available for purchase on Amazon.com along with the Proceedings from the three previous years.
The 2010 Proceedings include ten papers with 160 pages of technical meat from the S4 program. You can read the [...]

We will be blogging as time permits at S4 on Wednesday and Thursday. A number of the attendees will be tweeting using the hashtag #S4ics.

Every year the percentage of international attendees has increased at S4. We are pleased that the event is pulling in the top researchers from around the world. There just isn’t another venue with detailed technical meat that focuses on control system security. This year a full 1/3 of the physical attendees are from outside the [...]

Bandolier helps measure optimal security — meaning that we set out to identify and audit the best possible security configuration for a particular control system application. In some cases this means allowing something less than ideal because it is necessary for the function of the application. (Example: a service that is required that most best [...]

We selected Kris Harms from Mandiant to give next week’s S4 Keynote on the topic of Advanced Persistent Threat [APT]. This week Google and Adobe announce investigations of some more serious than normal attacks. A couple of key excerpts from the Google blog:
In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our [...]

We are one week away from S4 in Miami Beach and in the process of warming up down here. Highs in the upper 70’s next week. There are still ten seats left for Physical Attendees and an unlimited number for Virtual Attendees.
The positive reaction to the Virtual Attendee experience is reflected in Mark Heard’s [...]

We are two weeks away from S4. Still time to sign up to be a physical or virtual attendee.
Digital Bond’s 4th Annual SCADA Security Scientific Symposium [S4] is being held January 20 – 21 in warm and sunny Miami Beach. S4 is a bleeding edge research event where technical papers are presented in detail [...]

The S4 Hotel is fantastic. Right on the beach, beautiful rooms and balconies, and at $209 in season it is a fantastic deal [that is about a 50% discount]. Check it out.
The last day to guarantee you can get that rate is Wednesday, December 23rd. I know some of you can’t get the funds to [...]