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Vulnerabilities

Siemens Patches High-Severity Flaw in Parasolid 3D Modelling Engine

A memory-handling bug in Siemens Parasolid, tracked as CVE-2026-64629, lets a booby-trapped design file crash the host application or run attacker code. Siemens has shipped fixed builds.

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Vulnerabilities

AVEVA warns of code-execution flaw in Enterprise SCADA software used across pipelines and manufacturing

A high-severity deserialization bug lets an authenticated operator run code inside the industrial control system. AVEVA has shipped patches for every supported release.

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Policy & Regulation

America's Drinking Water Networks Are Getting a Long-Overdue Security Upgrade

A new Senate bill and a first-of-its-kind monitoring centre launched at DEF CON aim to plug gaping security holes in the water systems that supply millions of American homes.

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Vulnerabilities

ABB Ability Zenon ships with a MongoDB version that hasn't been patched since 2020

Industrial software used in energy, water and manufacturing plants bundles an old database with flaws that can leak memory and bypass access controls.

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Threat Intelligence

Thousands of Rockwell Controllers Sit Exposed Online, With 22 in US Water Attack Cities

Security firm Forescout counted 4,407 industrial controllers reachable from the open internet, and found a small cluster in the same towns recently hit by attacks on water systems.

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Threat Intelligence

Iran-Linked Hackers Hit Water Systems Across at Least Seven US States

Michigan, South Dakota, and Georgia are among the states confirmed to have had water infrastructure targeted. This is not a Minnesota problem.

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Threat Intelligence

CISA Warns Hackers Are Breaking Into Water Plant Controllers Left Exposed on the Internet

The US cyber agency says attackers are locking operators out of the small industrial computers that run water systems, forcing boil-water notices and manual operations.

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Vulnerabilities

Schneider Electric patches a nasty file-parsing bug in its industrial control software

A booby-trapped design file could let attackers run code inside IGSS, the SCADA tool used to monitor factories, energy sites and manufacturing plants worldwide.

3 min read
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Vulnerabilities

NASA's Core Flight System has a flaw that can crash spacecraft software

A researcher found that NASA's open-source flight software can be knocked offline by a single malformed command, and the patch for an earlier version of the same bug did not fully close the hole.

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Vulnerabilities

Mitsubishi Electric Factory Gear Vulnerable to Network Tampering Attack

A flaw in the CC-Link IE TSN protocol lets a nearby attacker knock dozens of industrial products offline. Mitsubishi has not shipped a fix.

3 min read
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Vulnerabilities

One in Five Data Centre Systems Is One Step Away From Hackers, Research Finds

A study of 174,000 data centre infrastructure devices found that roughly 32,000 sit just one network hop from the open internet, putting cooling, power and fire systems within easier reach of attackers than most operators realise.

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Threat Intelligence

More Than 30 Minnesota Water Utilities Hit in Coordinated Cyberattack

Attackers knocked out automated controls at water and wastewater plants across the state on July 26 and 27. Drinking water stayed safe, but one city briefly shut its plant down entirely.

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Vulnerabilities

Siemens flags hundreds of Linux flaws in its S7-1500 MFP factory controllers

The firmware inside a widely used industrial controller ships with a Linux subsystem carrying more than 300 unpatched CVEs. Siemens says a fix is coming.

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Policy & Regulation

US Agencies Warn That Iranian Hackers Are Targeting Industrial Control Systems Made by Siemens, Schneider Electric, and Rockwell Automation

An updated federal advisory names the specific techniques used to break into programmable logic controllers, the computers that run factories, water plants, and power grids.

3 min read
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Vulnerabilities

Siemens Rushes Fix for Smart Plug Riddled With Eight Serious Flaws

The SIDIS Secured SmartPlug carried a critical 9.8-rated bug plus seven more in bundled open-source libraries. Siemens says update to V7.26.0310.

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