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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Siemens released an update for its SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU last week, patching a denial of service vulnerability in the programmable logic controller. Siemens released an update for one of its automation ...

SCADA systems can now connect to Siemens PLCs via the Ignition OPC-UA Server. The Ignition Siemens Drivers Module includes three drivers that enable communications with Siemens S7-300, S7-400, and ...

Siemens has issued a security alert about the company’s Simatic S7-1500 programmable logic controllers (PLCs) after security researchers at Positive Technologies reported “serious vulnerabilities” ...

Functionality has been added to the John the Ripper password cracking tool that allows security testers to target password hashes in the Siemens S7 protocol. The protocol allowed password-protected ...