German industrial firm ThyssenKrupp said it’s working with authorities to investigate a data breach of unspecified amount of internal data.

Schneider Electric has recommended a number of mitigations to ward off two critical vulnerabilities in its Magelis HMI products.

Researchers find a vulnerability in industrial control system manufacturer Schneider Electric’s flagship software for managing and programing industrial controls.

The head of an international nuclear energy consortium said this week that a cyber attack caused a ‘disruption’ at a nuclear power plant in the last several years.

Government ICS report reveals access control a major issue for sector along with nagging issues around poor code quality and cryptography.

LAS VEGAS – Security researchers at Black Hat USA described a proof-of-concept worm that targets weaknesses within automated industrial control systems used to manage critical infrastructure and manufacturing. The worm, according to OpenSource Security, has the capability to autonomously search for and spread between networked programmable logic controllers (PLCs). PLC-Blaster was designed to target Siemens SIMATIC...

An Internet scan of the IPv4 address space uncovered more than 100 critical facilities exposed to the public Internet, including hydropower plants in Germany and Italy, and a smart building in Israel hosting luxury apartments. The investigation, conducted by researchers at Internet Wache of Berlin, started in the fall of 2015 as a search for...

We live in an increasingly connected world, but even in an age when DDoS attacks can take entire airlines offline, many critically sensitive industrial control systems (ICS) are still connected to the internet. A pair of reports released today by Kaspersky Lab reveal how dire the situation really is. In a scan, it found nearly...

Siemens has provided firmware updates addressing vulnerabilities in the SIMATIC WinCC flexible and the SIMATIC S7-300 CPU family.

Embedded device servers made by Moxa remain vulnerable to a trio of vulnerabilities disclosed today in an advisory published by the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) and a blog post by researcher Karn Ganeshen. Moxa, which is based in Taiwan, will publish a beta patch firmware before the end of the month,...