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Everbridge announced that Siemens will adopt the Everbridge CEM Platform to help protect Siemens’ workforce and operations against critical events of all kinds, from the COVID-19 pandemic and political unrest to sudden economic changes and more. The tw… Continue reading Siemens adopts the Everbridge CEM Platform to safeguard people and operations
Siemens has signed an agreement to acquire Cambridge, UK-based UltraSoC Technologies, a provider of instrumentation and analytics solutions that put intelligent monitoring, cybersecurity and functional safety capabilities into the core hardware of syst… Continue reading Siemens acquires UltraSoC to help customers detect, mitigate and eliminate risks throughout the SoC lifecycle
Expanding on their long-term partnership, Siemens and IBM announce the availability of a new solution designed to optimize the Service Lifecycle Management (SLM) of assets by dynamically connecting real-world maintenance activities and asset performanc… Continue reading Siemens and IBM announce new solution designed to optimize the SLM of assets
Kurt John is Chief Cybersecurity Officer of Siemens USA, where he is responsible for the information security strategy, governance and implementation for the company’s largest market with ~$23B in annual revenues. In this interview with Help Net Securi… Continue reading Redefining business for a digital world with smart security decisions
The general availability of ICS-specific intrusion and attack tools is widening the pool of attackers capable of targeting operational technology (OT) networks and industrial control systems (ICS). “As ICS are a distinct sub-domain to information… Continue reading Widely available ICS attack tools lower the barrier for attackers
A street in the City of Westminster in London has been dubbed Electric Avenue, W9 after Siemens and Ubitricity installed EV charging points in streetlamps, making it the first in the UK where all of its streetlamps have been given double duty.Continue … Continue reading UK’s first Electric Avenue charges electric cars from streetlamps
Seventeen bugs could be exploited to stop electrical generation and cause malfunctions at power plants. Continue reading Critical Remote Code-Execution Bugs Threaten Global Power Plants
When, in late July, Armis researchers revealed the existence of the so-called Urgent11 vulnerabilities in Wind River’s VxWorks real-time operating system, they noted that RTOS offerings by other vendors may also be vulnerable. As it turns out, th… Continue reading Urgent11 flaws affect more medical, industrial devices than previously thought
Critical vulnerabilities in the Siemens S7 Simatic programmable logic controller (PLC) have been discovered by cybersecurity researchers at Tel Aviv University and the Technion Institute of Technology. Prof. Avishai Wool and M.Sc student Uriel Malin of… Continue reading Vulnerabilities in Siemens’ most secure industrial PLCs can lead to industrial havoc
Logic bombs in Excel spreadsheets, how should we protect our brain data from big companies, and how did bizarre messages about Drill rap end up on the Metropolitan Police’s Twitter account and website?
All this and much more is discussed in the l… Continue reading Smashing Security #138: Logic bombs, brain data exploitation, and Digga D tweets