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 ...

After 15 years, Siemens has presented the next generation of its Simatic S7-1200 compact controller series at the Hannover Messe 2024: the Simatic S7-1200 G2. Siemens cites efficient motion control, ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article originally appeared on July 3, 2019. Packaging lines are well-known examples of multi-programmable-logic-controller (PLC) operations. There are PLCs on the conveyor lines, which may or ...