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 ...

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 ...

The Siemens Simatic S7-1500VF virtual PLC is a software-defined automation controller designed for failsafe automation applications, with safety functions up to SIL3 and PLe. With the fail-safe ...

This is the environment where engineers like Avadh Nagaralawala operate. His work on migrations from S7-300 to S7-1500, via Siemens’ TIA Portal, would indeed highlight the difficulties on the one hand ...

Team82, the research arm of New York-based industrial cybersecurity firm Claroty, revealed on October 11, 2022, that they managed to extract heavily guarded, hardcoded cryptographic keys embedded ...