"Hacking One of the World's Most Secure Industrial Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)"

A team of researchers from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and Tel Aviv University, together with the Israel National Cyber Directorate have demonstrated an attack on a Siemens programmable logic controller (PLC) that could allow for the hijacking of this system. This discovery is significant in that a Siemens PLC is often praised as one of the most secure controllers in the world. This article continues to discuss what the attack could allow malicious actors to do, the research conducted behind the attack, and the importance of securing industrial control systems. 

Homeland Security News Wire reports "Hacking One of the World's Most Secure Industrial Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)"

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