Security News

Former Siemens Contractor Sentenced to Prison for Planting Logic Bombs
2019-12-18 14:51

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

Hackers Can Exploit Siemens Control System Flaws in Attacks on Power Plants
2019-12-13 13:04

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Ever wonder how hackers could possibly pwn power plants? Here are 54 Siemens bugs that could explain things
2019-12-13 10:51

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...

Undocumented Access Feature Exposes Siemens PLCs to Attacks
2019-11-15 16:32

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 Issues Advisories for DejaBlue, SACK Panic Vulnerabilities
2019-09-11 12:57

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

Siemens SCALANCE X Switches Vulnerable to DoS Attacks
2019-08-14 08:46

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...

Week in review: SWAPGS attack, DNS security, vulnerable Siemens PLCs, Black Hat USA 2019
2019-08-11 16:00

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...

Vulnerabilities in Siemens’ most secure industrial PLCs can lead to industrial havoc
2019-08-09 10:09

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...

Hackers Can Use Rogue Engineering Stations to Target Siemens PLCs
2019-08-08 19:00

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,...

Siemens Contractor Pleads Guilty to Planting 'Logic Bomb' in Spreadsheets
2019-07-24 09:33

A former Siemens contractor has pledged guilty in federal court Friday to secretly planting code in automated spreadsheets he had created for the company over a decade ago that deliberately...