The DuPage Water Commission (DWC) of Elmhurst, Ill., has built a new water distribution network and is monitoring it using an integrated supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) simulator (ISS ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...