CERN PLCs fail cyber testing (cross posted from Soundoff!!)

Aug. 26, 2008
Team Lead Stefan Lueders reports in the current edition of The Industrial Ethernet Book that only 66% of CERN's PLCs passed NESSUS testing, while only 74% passed Netwox testing. These are very high failure rates when you consider that these PLCs are in industrial control systems in a testing laboratory for the nuclear industry. Read the article
Team Lead Stefan Lueders reports in the current edition of The Industrial Ethernet Book that only 66% of CERN's PLCs passed NESSUS testing, while only 74% passed Netwox testing. These are very high failure rates when you consider that these PLCs are in industrial control systems in a testing laboratory for the nuclear industry. Read the article here.

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