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Siemens this week addressed several vulnerabilities and warned customers about the security risks associated with the use of ActiveX in industrial products. ActiveX has been known to pose serious security risks and it's currently only supported by Microsoft on Internet Explorer - ActiveX is not supported by other browsers such as Chrome, Safari or Firefox.

A 62-year-old man from Harrison City, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced to prison for planting logic bombs in programs he created for German industrial giant Siemens. read more

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Arbitrary code execution in a controller, what could go wrong? Siemens industrial control systems designed specifically for energy plant gear are riddled with dozens of security vulnerabilities...

Siemens is working on addressing a vulnerability that can be exploited by a skilled attacker to execute arbitrary code on its SIMATIC S7-1200 programmable logic controller (PLC) by abusing a...

Siemens on Tuesday released several security advisories, including ones covering recently disclosed vulnerabilities tracked as DejaBlue, Urgent/11 and SACK Panic. read more

Siemens on Tuesday released several new advisories describing vulnerabilities in the company’s products, including an unpatched denial-of-service (DoS) flaw affecting SCALANCE X industrial...

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, interviews and articles: Embracing the cloud and meeting its security demands You might expect that the largest companies are the...

Critical vulnerabilities in the Siemens S7 Simatic programmable logic controller (PLC) have been discovered by cybersecurity researchers at Tel Aviv University and the Technion Institute of...

Malicious actors could use rogue engineering workstations to take control of Siemens programmable logic controllers (PLCs), and they can hide the attack from the engineer monitoring the system,...