Industrial Machine control drives vunerable to hacker attack

[magicniner]

Sound advice but akin to "Don't wet your fingers and stick them in a live mains socket"
Those who really need the advice will either not read it or ignore it ;-)

- Nick

[george uk]

Those who really need the advice will either not read it or ignore it ;-)

100% agree, it really would shock most people if they did an audit of there connected devices and realised how assessable things are.

but its quite serious news for anyone with a Siemens controller... I dont know how you would notice this infection apart from resuming your motor timings from your VDF to see if there correct. ( thats what stux did, hacked directly the Siemens controller function that deals with the pulses ). It was designed to damage the motors in centrifuges.

If anyone spots a cheep one, i might purchase one just to see if its possible to test it for infection. Cutting wood, you probebly would not notice ( apart from hotter spinle ). But operations like threading, or multi axis, you would notice.