Siemens has advised its customers not to change the default passwords hard-coded into its WinCC Scada product, even though the Stuxnet malware that exploits the critical infrastructure systems ...

Greg Machler looks at how critical industries will shore up their SCADA-control weaknesses in order to protect against terror attacks If you’re a CXO overseeing a ...

A pharmaceutical company’s automation upgrade shows how simulations can be used to test equipment limits, standardize systems ...

In a lab that’s used to processing hundreds of thousands of new software threats a year, the analysis of Stuxnet is three months old – and counting, he said. Stuxnet has set other, major anti malware ...

A sophisticated new piece of malware that targets command-and-control software installed in critical infrastructures uses a known default password that the software maker hard-coded into its system.

Software made by Siemens and targeted by the Stuxnet malware is still full of other dangerous vulnerabilities, according to Russian researchers whose presentation at the Defcon security conference ...

One of the scariest of the many dark corners in the world of Internet security is the back and forth over the integrity of the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems that control ...

Siemens released security updates for several of its SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) products for industrial environments, in order to fix critical vulnerabilities that may have been ...

If you were in charge of some critical infrastructure (such as a power plant or manufacturing facility) and there was some malware which exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Windows which targeted ...