Tag: Radiation

  • The Mystery of Chernobyl’s Post-Invasion Radiation Spikes

    Soon after Russian troops invaded Ukraine in February 2022, sensors in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone reported radiation spikes. A researcher …

  • Spanish Police Arrest 2 Nuclear Power Workers for Cyberattacking the Radiation Alert System

    Spanish law enforcement officials have announced the arrest of two individuals in connection with a cyberattack on the country’s …

  • Attacking Data Integrity & Hacking Radiation Monitoring Devices

    BLACK HAT USA 2017 — IOActive researcher Ruben Santamarta visits the Dark Reading News Desk to discuss radio-based vulnerabilities on radiation monitoring devices and how the integrity of critical data can be manipulated to simulate or exacerbate emergency situations and complicate incident response. Watch all 45 News Desk interviews at DarkReading.com/DRNewsDesk. Read full news article…

  • Multiple vulnerabilities found in radiation monitoring gateways

    Every now and then, a presentation at Black Hat throws up a security vulnerability that has been missed either because it exists in equipment researchers haven’t been paying attention to, or is simply inherently difficult to uncover. A prime example this year was IOActive’s research on Radiation Portal Monitors (RPMs), gateways mainly used to check for…

  • Flaws in Radiation Monitoring Devices, Vendors decline to fix them

    Inspection of software that ships with the Model 53 Gamma Personnel Portal from Ludlum revealed a backdoor password. “As a result, malicious personnel can bypass the RPM’s authentication and take control of the device, which could be used to disable it, thus preventing the RPM from triggering proper alarms,” Read full news article on E…

  • Critical Vulnerabilities Found in Nuke Plant Radiation Monitors

    Patching will be difficult since these are design flaws rather than software bugs; and the vendors’ early response to IOActive’s discoveries was, in each case, to decline to work on patches. Since then, Digi has told IOActive that it is collaborating with Mirion to patch the critical vulnerabilities. Read full news article on SecurityWeek  

  • Shielding Your Lap From Tablet Radiation

    So I have high hopes for the company’s new universal tablet and iPad-specific cases, which operate on the same anti-radiation premise. To be honest, I never gave much thought to if the iPad emitted radiation — primarily because I never hold mine up to my head like I would a phone. Read full news article…

  • Nuclear Plants, Hospitals at Risk of Hacked Radiation Monitoring Devices

    Design flaws in devices used to monitor radiation levels in nuclear plants, hospitals, seaports, and at border controls, could be exploited by an attacker to inject phony radiation readings, a security researcher has found. Ruben Santamarta, principal security consultant at IOActive, reverse-engineered the firmware of two different brands of radiation monitoring devices as well as…

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