After Delay, Hacker to Show Flaws in Siemens Industrial Gear
NetworkWorld / By Robert McMillan
June 6, 2011
A security researcher who says he's found serious problems with Siemens computers used in power plants and heavy industry is now expecting to go public with his research at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas.
In May, NSS Labs Researcher Dillon Beresford pulled out of a Dallas hacking conference at the last minute when Siemens was unable to fix problems he'd found in the firmware of its S7 programmable logic controller. After consulting with Siemens and the U.S. Department of Homeland security, NSS decided that it was simply too dangerous to go public with its information before a patch could be fully developed.
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