Worth reading on #scada #energy #automotive #cybersec. Talks and research paper by Dmitry Sklyar on security of Electric Vehicle, ChargePoint Home charging station.
Security hardening of network services with encrypted tunnel leads to buffer overflow and remote code execution in D60 Line Distance Relay as reported in security advisory ICSA-18-046-02.
Digital Substation is an essential part of every electrical network. It is also a base ground for modern Smart Grid technologies. More than 4000 of IEC 61850 compatible substations operated in Europe, 20 000+ worldwide, each of the comprising communication and flow of gigawatts of electrical current between large power plants (thermoelectrical, hydroelectrical or even nuclear) and their respective consumers. Such consumers include cities, industrial objects and power plants themselves.
SCADASOS, (in)Secure Open SmartGrids, is open initiative to raise awareness on insecurities of SmartGrid, Photovoltaic Power Stations and Wind Farms.
For last year, 80,000+ SmartGrid components reported by SCADASOS were disconnected from the internet.
CVE-2015-3964: SMA Solar Technology AG Sunny WebBox (monitoring solution for medium-sized PV plants) Hardcoded Account Vulnerability is fixed. Presented at 31C3 by Alexander Timorin.
A Few Facts on IEC61850-based Substation Integration & Automation in China by Mr Jim Y Cai, Dr Gao Xiang and Dr. Jun Zha:
- In 2013, 10 000 substations from 35KV to 10000KV with 100% 61850 based IEDs are in operation
- By the end of 2013, there are 893 fully digital substations with process bus are in operation
Few bugs in InduSoft Web Studio and InTouch Machine Edition 2014 recently fixed by Schneider Electric were discovered during PHDays Critical Infrastructure Attack challenge. Kudos @alisaesage. For bless you.
Absolutely old-school-community-drive-responsible-disclosure in action. Many emotions left behind..
New vulnerabilities from out team and new patches from Siemens
CVE-2015-1358 and CVE-2014-4686 are all abut VNC code reuse.
CVE-2015-1355 and CVE-2015-1356 we can’t name vulnerabilities. Local weaknesses, defects in security feature implementations… But it fixed, thanks Siemens.
This year we want to discuss Green Energy. Our hackers' vision of Green Energy, SmartGrids and Cloud IoT technology. Our latest research was devoted to the analysis of the architecture and implementation of the most wide spread platforms for wind and solar energy generation which produce many gigawatts of it. It may seem (not) surprising but the systems which manage huge turbine towers and household PhotoVoltaic plants are not only connected to the internet but also prone to many well known vulnerabilities and low-hanging 0-days. Even if these systems cannot be found via Shodan, fancy cloud technologies leave no chances for security.
After our 31C3 Too SmartGrid in da Cloud talk we get many questions about Solar and Wind plants vulnerabilities, Internet
connected SmartGrid devices. Guys, sorry, but we don’t know yet.
There are dozens of platforms, hundreds of vendors,
thousands of SmartGrid devices… Millions of them connected to Internet without
any protection. But you can change the situation.
Join our SCADASOS project to make the world safer!