For many years in the industrial automation sector, end-user petitions for openness and flexibility had been at odds with what suppliers were willing to offer. Especially in the case of digital ...

PLCs are used in factories and control rooms to drive the machinery that drives the economy. Many are programmed in the ladder logic programming language. As with all software, this code periodically ...

Researchers from Microsoft have demonstrated how programmable logic controllers (PLCs) that support the CODESYS runtime can be taken over by exploiting high-severity remote code execution (RCE) ...