Siemens has lied to the press about security bugs that could affect critical infrastructure, according to a security expert who has made public the password for Siemens' machinery.
Billy Rios is a security engineer for a software company and has written on his personal blog that Siemens' SIMATIC systems can be easily hacked into and controlled remotely by anyone with an internet connection.
Federal officials said there's no evidence to support a report that hackers destroyed a pump used by an Illinois-based water utility after gaining unauthorized access to the computer system it used to operate its machinery.
Last week I wrote a story on the compromise of an industrial control system in Illinois that destroyed a pump at a water processing facility. The same day a hacker came forward and posted internal information on pastebin.com from another compromised utility in South Houston, Texas.
Within hours of publication I was contacted by the hacker involved in the Texas incident and I was able to ask him a few questions via email about the state of critical infrastructure security.
