Dodgy creds found in Siemens ICS gear

The US computer emergency response team is warning of weak credentials in Siemens SIMATIC WinCC flexible that can be remotely exploitable. The flaw, found by Positive Technologies' Gleb Gritsai and Roman Ilin, has been patched. Fortunately, it seems to require that attackers already have some privileged network position from …

[Fatman]

<quote>Siemens says strong security controls should protect its industrial control system gear in line with operational guidelines.</quote>

Tell THAT to the penny pinching PHB's.

We want cheap.

We want it fast.

We want it NOW!!! (so we can spend time 'checking' up on you.)

[Anonymous Coward]

step up in security

This is actually a welcome step up in security from what I was anticipating. When I opened the article I was expecting that they used something like hunter1 as a hard-coded admin password.