Florida Power and Light

It has long been know that employee terminations need to be handled with sensitivity and great care. Even more special attention needs to be placed on the KNOWLEDGE that these individuals have when being let go, or in this case termination.

Florida Power and Light has had what some would conscider a significant breach of their security. In a post on Full Disclosure, a former employee posted several screenshots and a series of details including a core Cisco router config. If this information is confirmed by FPL, this would indicate a very severe event, of which the fallout could be felt for years.

More on this event to follow.

_J

Jonathan Pollet with Red Tiger Security Featured Speaker in Rome, Italy

The AIIC (Critical Infrastructures Italian Association) and GCSEC (Global Cyber Security Center) is hosting a Critical Infrastructure Protection conference on May 31st in Rome, Italy. I have been honored to be the featured speaker at this event, and many thanks goes out to my long time friend Enzo Tieghi for organizing this event.

I will be speaking about the latest APT attacks impacting SCADA Systems and the most common vulnerabilities that we are seeing in the SCADA and DCS assessments we are performing around the world. It should be an excellent information sharing event, and I am also excited to learn about what our friends in Italy are doing about protecting their critical national infrastructure.

The link to the conference site is: http://www.gcsec.org/event/cyber-threats-facing-scada-systems

Drop me a line if you will be in the area - I know I'll be savoring the local Mozzarella di Bufala and Margarita Pizzas :)

Ciao!
Jonathan

Red Tiger Security to present at upcoming UTC EXPO in May

The Utilities Telecom Council (UTC) hosts its annual EXPO trade show and training sessions at the Longbeach Convention Center this year from May 10th through the 13th. It is an excellent way to not only see the latest utility and telecommunications technologies available on the trade floor, but also a way to sit in on several excellent educational sessions at the same venue. If you will be in the Southern California area or work in the utility and telecommunications industry sector, this is an event not to miss.

We have been honored to be selected to speak at two of the educational sessions dealing with cyber security, and Joe Cummins and myself will be there at the event to deliver our latest presentations, and network with our friends and clients in the utility industry. The link to the conference site is: http://utctelecom2011.utc.org/content/utc-expo-2011

If you will be there, drop us a line so we can meet up at the event!

Thanks,
Jonathan