Siemens issues emergency SCADA patch

Got Siemens SCADA? Get patching: the company has issued updates for software using its WinCC application to plug a bunch of remotely-exploitable vulnerabilities. According to the ICS-CERT advisory, versions of the company's SIMANTIC WinCC, SIMANTIC PCS7 and TIA Portal V13 (which includes a WinCC runtime) are all vulnerable. …

[Anonymous Coward]

Not much of a story

Apart from all the commentards who will confuse SCADA with real time control and ask why people are controlling real time systems with Windows (it's called WinCC for a reason), the crux of this story is a vendor patches a security hole. Move along, nothing to see here...

[Anonymous Coward]

Simantic?

Don't think so. But CERT speeld it wrong too, so we can't blame El Reg too much.

Try Simatic (not to be confused with Siematic (kitchens) or Symantec (?)).

Who's gonna tell CERT?

[Will Godfrey]

Hmm.

I thought they were going to say they'd finally got rid of hard-coded default passwords.

Actually, there is an upgrade for that. It's called Mitsubishi :)