The ability to monitor and control distributed generation assets, on-site or from remote locations, continues to become more efficient and sophisticated. SCADA software for power control systems ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ever-evolving communications and networking technologies, such as cloud computing and Ethernet radios, are refining the best practices used in SCADA and helping this tried-and-true automation ...

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 ...