Hot Summer 2014 for Telecoms

Lately, telecom giants have made a series of sensational confessions.  Vodafone told the world about devices that governments use to intercept calls and messages. That's something new! :)

Deutsche Telekom follows Vodafone and is going to reveal how many surveillance requests it gets from governments.

Positive Technologies Experts Helped to Fix a Vulnerability in the Emerson DeltaV DCS

During a security analysis, Positive Technologies specialists detected a critical security error in the Emerson DeltaV distributed control system. While having access to the system, an intruder is able to read and replace its configuration files, and to run commands with any user's rights. The vulnerability affects DeltaV versions 10.3.1, 11.3 and 12.3. Emerson’s DeltaV is a general purpose process control system that is used worldwide primarily in the oil and gas and chemical industries.