The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has warned businesses of hackers targeting vulnerabilities in enterprise resource planning systems (ERP); ERP systems are an attractive target due to its housing of sensitive corporate information and running of business-critical processes. Companies such as Oracle issue patches for their ERP products but installing them often leads to difficulties, partly arising from complex system architectures, that hackers can exploit. ERP systems can be more vulnerable to attack if the applications they support are connected to the internet. In a blog post published on Thursday, the DHS said it had identified several “high-risk” organizations using vulnerable versions of Oracle’s Enterprise Resource Planning software.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has warned businesses of hackers targeting vulnerabilities in enterprise resource planning systems (ERP); ERP systems are an attractive target due to its housing of sensitive corporate information and running of business-critical processes. Companies such as Oracle issue patches for their ERP products but installing them often leads to difficulties, partly arising from complex system architectures, that hackers can exploit. In a blog post published on Thursday, the DHS said it had identified several “high-risk” organizations using vulnerable versions of Oracle’s Enterprise Resource Planning software.