Siemens SCADA Hacking Talk Pulled From TakeDownCon

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 19, 2011 @07:59AM from the but-motel-6-keeps-the-lights-on dept.

alphadogg writes "A planned presentation on security vulnerabilities in Siemens industrial control systems was pulled Wednesday over worries that the information in the talk was too dangerous to be released. Independent security researcher Brian Meixell and Dillon Beresford, with NSS Labs, had been planning to talk Wednesday at a Dallas security conference about problems in Siemens PLC systems, the industrial computers widely used to open and shut valves on factory floors and power plants, control centrifuges, and even operate systems on warships. But the researchers decided to pull the talk at the last minute after Siemens and the US Department of Homeland Security pointed out the possible scope of the problem."

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Re:Secrecy by chemicaldave · 2011-05-19 08:28 · Score: 5, Insightful

Did you RTFA? They're waiting for Siemens to fix the issues first, a common practice in security research. Siemens and DHS didn't force them to pull the talk and didn't even get lawyers involved. So please stop with your accusations. You clearly lack an understanding of the situation at hand.