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

Researchers from the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology and Tel Aviv University, in collaboration with the Israel National Cyber Directorate have managed to take control of a Siemens PLC, which is considered to be one of the safest controllers in the world. They presented the attack at the prestigious Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas on 8 August.

A version of the team’s research paper was sent in advance to Siemens so that it could fix the vulnerabilities found.

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