They keep the lights on in cities and towns across the country. They control dams, chemical plants and an array of manufacturing processes. And increasingly, these industrial control systems, or ICS, ...

The Stuxnet and Target attacks have squashed many of the myths about securing industrial control system security. Myth #1 – Isolating control systems networks keeps them safe from malicious attacks: ...

Back in 1982, the CIA uncovered a plot by the Soviet Union to steal industrial software for controlling its rapidly expanding network of natural-gas pipelines. In response, the agency modified the ...

Hurray! A new Fundamentals course written and narrated by yours truly has just become available – The Fundamentals of Industrial Control Processing… Actually, I have something of an interest in ...

In March 2016, Iranian hackers conducted a cyberattack against a critical infrastructure target located in New York, successfully taking control of a government computer system. The target wasn’t a ...

Control system technologies are continually evolving, providing designers and facility owners with an ever-increasing array of options. Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and distributed control ...

An over view shows a section of the Mississippi Power Co. carbon capture plant in DeKalb, Miss. Treetop Midstream Services. Securing industrial control systems in cyberspace is growing in importance. ...

Time and again, industry reports provide discouraging evidence that our defenders are unable to detect and prevent intrusions from advanced, directed and highly structured cyber threats in a timely ...

RS offers Omron Automation's Value Design for Panel products, which bring structure and efficiency to every phase of the panel building process, enabling panel builders, machine builders, and end ...

According to Socket, the packages targeted all three major database providers used in .NET applications - SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and SQLite, adding that the ...

Cyber criminals are launching ransomware attacks that are specifically targeting industrial control systems (ICS) in what researchers say is the first instance of file-encrypting malware being built ...

The advantages of cloud computing for industrial applications are increasingly finding themselves equally weighted—if not somewhat less favored—with the advantages of edge computing. Both offer ...