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Securing Siemens PLCs Without Shutting Down the Factory
US agencies are warning that industrial controllers running critical infrastructure are being actively targeted. The advice is sound. Applying it carelessly could cause the very outages attackers are hoping for.
100 Tech Giants Warned That AI Is Making Cyberattacks Easier. They Forgot to Mention Who Will Stop Them.
More than 100 companies signed an open letter about AI-powered hacking. A veteran security educator read it closely and found the plan had no people in it.
OPC Foundation patches installer flaw that let a bystander hijack setup on industrial servers
A medium-severity bug in the OPC UA Local Discovery Server installer briefly exposes a high-privilege console anyone at the keyboard could grab.
Rockwell Automation Fixes More Than a Dozen Security Flaws Across Its Industrial Software
The manufacturing technology company has issued patches for vulnerabilities in products used to control factory equipment worldwide, including RSLinx Classic and FactoryTalk.
CISA Warns of 13 Critical Flaws in Ebyte NA111-M Gateways, No Patch in Sight
The Chinese vendor stopped responding to coordination requests, leaving industrial network gateways exposed to remote takeover.
More Than 100 Water Systems Were Hit by Hackers in July. Here's What CISA Found.
U.S. cybersecurity officials have put a number on the recent wave of attacks on drinking water and wastewater facilities: over 100 internet-connected systems targeted in a single month, most of them left exposed by a simple modem.
The Industrial Timing Protocol That Could Let Hackers Stop a Robotic Arm Mid-Grip
Researchers found that a family of protocols keeping factory machines in sync has a fundamental weakness. Exploiting it, they could start and stop robots, mess with factory clocks, and touch every device on the network.
ICS Cybersecurity Conference Brings Back Hands-On Industrial Attack Training
A practical course on attacking and defending industrial control systems returns to Nashville this October, giving security professionals rare access to live hardware scenarios.
North Korean IT Worker Infiltrated a Federal Agency, Boeing 737 Security Flaws Explored, and Refrigeration Systems Found Vulnerable
A North Korean operative got hired at a US government agency, researchers found exploitable weaknesses in Boeing 737 onboard systems, and serious flaws turned up in industrial refrigeration controllers. Here's what each finding means in practice.
August 2026 ICS Patch Tuesday: Siemens, Schneider Electric and Phoenix Contact Fix Serious Flaws in Factory Equipment
A batch of August security updates covers industrial control systems that run factories, power networks and buildings. One Siemens flaw scores the maximum possible severity rating and lets attackers run any code they like on a connected device without needing a password.
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.
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.
Most AI Models Fail New Malware-Investigation Test Inspired by Nuclear Sabotage
A benchmark built around a real industrial-attack case shows that today's leading AI systems can't follow a malware investigation all the way to a conclusion.
A malformed packet can knock Rockwell's Flex 5000 Adapter offline until someone power-cycles it
Rockwell Automation has patched a denial-of-service flaw in a widely deployed factory-floor module. The fix ships as firmware 6.012.
The Machines That Run the World Are Running Decades-Old Software
Industrial control systems keep factories, water plants, and power grids alive. They also run code written before Wi-Fi existed. Fixing that is harder than it sounds.