Automation supplier Siemens Industry Inc., in Alpharetta, Ga. has released a firmware update for its S7-1200 PLC that reportedly eliminates vulnerabilities and improves the security and robustness of ...

COMPANY NEWS: Close to 10 years ago, Siemens introduced asymmetric cryptography into the integrated security architecture of its TIA Portal v12 and SIMATIC S7-1200/1500 PLC CPU firmware families. This ...

Siemens S7 programmable logic controllers, the same PLC family exploited by the Stuxnet malware, are in the crosshairs of a password-cracking tool that is capable of stealing credentials from ...

Security researchers have found a way to extract a global encryption key that was hardcoded in the CPUs of several Siemens programmable logic controller (PLC) product lines, allowing them to ...

Claroty, meanwhile, has taken those efforts a step further using a newly-discovered vulnerability that bypasses the PLC sandbox within Siemens’ Simatic S7-1200 and S7-1500 PLC CPUs to run native code ...

A group of security researchers in Israel has discovered vulnerabilities in the Siemens S7 Simatic architecture that ultimately allowed them to build a phony engineering workstation that was able to ...

BLACK HAT USA — Las Vegas — Security researchers who built a phony engineering workstation that was able to dupe — and alter — operations of the Siemens S7 programmable logic controller (PLC) found ...

Flexxbotics announced further enhancements to the S7 Communications (S7Comm) transformer connector driver within the Flexxbotics open-source project on GitHub.

LAS VEGAS --A security researcher has uncovered a slew of vulnerabilities in Siemens industrial control systems, including a hard-coded password, that would let attackers reprogram the systems with ...