Collaborate Disseminate
When electronics release the Magic Smoke, more often than not it’s a fairly sedate event. Something overheats, the packaging gets hot enough to emit that characteristic and unmistakable odor, and …read more Continue reading Quick and Very Dirty Repair Gets Smoked PLC Back in the Game
On the surface, a programmable logic controller (PLC) might seem like nothing more than a generic microcontroller, perhaps outfitted to operate in industrial settings with things like high temperatures or …read more Continue reading Humble Arduino As PLC
[Jared Holladay] is a computer engineering student at the University of Cincinnati and a life-long roller coaster fanatic. A lot of people look at roller coasters as an exciting example …read more Continue reading The Safest Model Roller Coaster
It should be no surprise to many that one can use a Raspbery Pi SBC as an industrial controller, but is it any good at that? That was the question which [Dough Reneker] and [William Shaffer] built a test rig to see how a Raspberry Pi performs in head to …read more
Continue reading Evaluating Raspberry Pi as a Programmable Logic Controller
CVE-2020-10245, a heap-based buffer overflow that rates 10 out of 10 in severity, exists in the CODESYS web server and takes little skill to exploit. Continue reading Critical CODESYS Bug Allows Remote Code Execution
Bugs affecting programmable logic controllers (PLC) and physical access-control systems for facilities are rated 9.8 in severity. Continue reading Critical Bugs in Rockwell, Johnson Controls ICS Gear