IOActive Discovers Backdoor Vulnerabilities in TURCK Industrial Automation Devices
Seattle, WA ― May 23, 2013 ― IOActive, Inc., a leading provider of application security, compliance and smart grid security services, today announced that company security consultant Ruben Santamarta, uncovered hard-coded user accounts that could act as backdoors in two devices from German industrial automation manufacturer, TURCK. The affected devices from TURCK, which could be exploited remotely, are the BL20 and BL67 Programmable Gateways. These devices, primarily used in the US, Europe as well as in Asia, are deployed across many industries that include agriculture and food, automotive and critical manufacturing….
IOActive’s David Balcar to present on breaches and mitigation at BSides San Antonio
Seattle, WA ― May 3, 2013 ― IOActive, Inc., a leading provider of application security, compliance and smart grid security services, today announced that David Balcar, its director of services who is also heading up the company’s growth in Texas and the southeast, will present at BSides San Antonio. In his presentation – You’ve been Breached, Now What? – to be given at this grass roots, DIY, open security conference Balcar will discuss the various published security breaches, ranging from financial services through to mobile, that have taken place over the past year…
Christopher Tarnovsky to present at DESIGN West on Advanced Techniques to Hack Hardware Chips
IOActive’s VP of semiconductor security services to show how to reverse engineer low level chips Seattle, WA ― April 18, 2013. – IOActive, Inc., a leading provider of application security, compliance and smart grid security services, today announced Christopher Tarnovsky, vice president of semiconductor security services at the company, will present at DESIGN West’s Black Hat Embedded Security Summit on the topic of Low level chip reverse engineering. “Product designers and manufacturers are moving more of their products secrets down to the silicon level in an attempt to thwart hackers. They understand…
Christopher Valasek of IOActive to present on Internet Explorer 9 at SOURCE Boston 2013
Director of Security Intelligence to present findings of research on Microsoft’s web browser Seattle, WA ― April 10, 2013. – IOActive, Inc., a leading provider of application security, compliance and smart grid security services, today announced that its director of security intelligence, Christopher Valasek, will present An Examination of String Allocations in Internet Explorer 9 at SOURCE Boston 2013. Allocation of memory, specifically user_controlled strings, has played a major role in browser exploitation, especially with regards to heap spraying. The underlying knowledge of JavaScript string allocations were widely understood from Internet Explorer 6…
IOActive’s Wim Remes to give Keynote Address at Secure Abu Dhabi Conference 2013
Managing Consultant to give keynote address on ’Collaborative Approach to Modern Threats’ and moderate panel discussion on ’Can we Secure the Unsecurable’ London, UK ― March 21, 2013. – IOActive, Inc., a leading provider of application security, compliance and smart grid security services, today announced that Wim Remes, managing consultant for the company, will be giving the keynote address on Collaborative Approach to Modern Threats at the Secure Abu Dhabi Conference 2013. Additionally, Remes will moderate the panel discussion on Can we Secure the Unsecurable. Remes’ keynote address will focus on:…