Major Security Flaw Targets Industrial Computer Systems

Major Security Flaw Targets Industrial Computer Systems

October 27, 2016
David Morris

This article from Voice of America reveals a major security vulnerability affecting one of the world’s largest manufacturers of computerized industrial control systems, Schneider Electric, has recently been identified, according to a leading cybersecurity firm.

“Engineering stations were targeted; that’s where the various control parameters for the industrial systems can be changed,” Mille Gandelsman, Indegy’s Chief Technology Officer and co-founder. told VOA. “It was these workstations with specialized software [called Unity Pro] that communicate with the controllers that were made totally vulnerable…” by this recently discovered security flaw.

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