12 August 2026 - 12:21
Category: IT Fail
Happy Patch Tuesday From Industrial ICS
Industrial vendors Siemens and Schneider Electric dropped their monthly batch of critical security flaws again. Naturally, we get to spend our weekend applying emergency updates.
Source: SecurityWeek
The Full Story
Our good friends at Siemens, Schneider Electric, and Phoenix Contact have graced us with their August Patch Tuesday advisories for industrial automation kit. Siemens managed to ship a critical missing-authentication flaw in Simatic IoT2050 Advanced devices, generously granting remote attackers full code execution. Meanwhile, Schneider added to the fun with command execution bugs in their NetBotz and PowerChute lines, because why not. Anyone operating these industrial environments must drop everything to deploy these updates immediately.