news article mentioning potential problems with IIoT

Ron Beaufort · Dec 8, 2020

I found this article in today's news interesting ... as if we don't already have enough to worry about these days ...

headline:

Millions of smart devices vulnerable to hacking: research

here's a link in case you want to read the whole article ... I've highlighted the parts I found most interesting in the screen shot below ...

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/millions-of-smart-devices-vulnerable-to-hacking-research

stay safe ... stay well ...
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goghie · Dec 8, 2020

Nothing new.
Unfortunately, most of our colleague do not have enough capacity when they need to make living harder for hackers.
Just try to imagine the millions of devices(Modbus, FINS, S7, etc.) connected to the internet without checking the authentication and IP address.

Jobbe9000 · Dec 8, 2020

With IEC 62443 starting to be a requirement for alot of infrastructure in europe, "Cyber security" is the new buzzwords taking over from "Industy4.0", "IIOT" and so on...

Mention "Cyber security" in front of any Siemens employee and they will get hard

Ofc it is an important and also very interresting subject, but very much hyped if you ask me.

drbitboy · Dec 8, 2020

I've mentioned this before, but at a presentation during a (PHP) conference, someone said "IoT - the S is for security."

cardosocea · Dec 8, 2020

goghie said:
Nothing new.
Unfortunately, most of our colleague do not have enough capacity when they need to make living harder for hackers.
Just try to imagine the millions of devices(Modbus, FINS, S7, etc.) connected to the internet without checking the authentication and IP address.

In case anyone is wondering how to find them, go here:

www.shodan.io

I particularly like this camera:

http://110.4.157.98:82/top.htm?Currenttime=2020-12-08%2016:53:23

Although there are more interesting ones out there. Sadly, my favourite has been removed. A guy in Portugal had a S7-1200 with a web server and a mimic of a home. I doubt it actually controlled anything, but it looked neat.

TWS · Dec 8, 2020

This has good guidelines to follow.
https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/CSWP/NIST.CSWP.02122014.pdf.
This is a little dated but is an excellent resource. https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-82r2.pdf.

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