COMPANY NEWS: Close to 10 years ago, Siemens introduced asymmetric cryptography into the integrated security architecture of its TIA Portal v12 and SIMATIC S7-1200/1500 PLC CPU firmware families. This ...

In 2009, the computer worm Stuxnet crippled hundreds of centrifuges inside Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment plant by targeting the software running on the facility’s industrial computers, known as ...

Security researchers have found a way to extract a global encryption key that was hardcoded in the CPUs of several Siemens programmable logic controller (PLC) product lines, allowing them to ...

This is the environment where engineers like Avadh Nagaralawala operate. His work on migrations from S7-300 to S7-1500, via Siemens’ TIA Portal, would indeed highlight the difficulties on the one hand ...

Researchers from ICS security vendor Claroty published details on a serious vulnerability they found in Siemens SIMATIC S7-1200 and S7-1500 PLCs that could allow an attacker to gain remote access to ...

The Siemens Simatic S7-1500VF virtual PLC is a software-defined automation controller designed for failsafe automation applications, with safety functions up to SIL3 and PLe. With the fail-safe ...

Earlier this year, Siemens added the Simatic S7-1500V virtual PLC to its Industrial Edge platform. This virtual PLC is based on the functions and operation of the SIMATIC S7-1500 PLC but is ...

A group of security researchers in Israel has discovered vulnerabilities in the Siemens S7 Simatic architecture that ultimately allowed them to build a phony engineering workstation that was able to ...

Team82, the research arm of New York-based industrial cybersecurity firm Claroty, revealed on October 11, 2022, that they managed to extract heavily guarded, hardcoded cryptographic keys embedded ...