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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

eATM tManager Standalone is designed to simplify data exchange between Siemens S7 PLCs and IBM, Oracle and Microsoft plant/enterprise computer systems. The panel-mounted module provides an easy-to-use ...

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 ...

In 2009, the computer worm Stuxnet crippled hundreds of centrifuges inside Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment plant by targeting the software running on the facility’s industrial computers, known as ...