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 ...

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.

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 ...

Although a newly discovered worm could allow criminals to break into Siemens’ industrial automation systems using a default password, Siemens is telling customers to leave their passwords alone.

Researchers have found vulnerabilities in industrial control systems that they say grant full control of systems running energy, chemical and transportation systems. The vulnerabilities were ...

Malware infiltrates Siemens passwords, is designed to steal proprietary information. Siemens has begun warning its customers that a highly sophisticated new piece of malware has been targeting ...

What does your PC and the systems managing critical infrastructure have in common? Microsoft Windows, and all its security concerns If you’re wondering where the next big disaster will come from, ...

More than two months after the original advisory went out, Siemens has released patches for a pair of critical vulnerabilities in some versions of its Simatic WinCC SCADA product that remained ...