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Rockwell Automation Vulnerabilities Put Industrial Maintenance Teams on Alert

Controls engineer and maintenance professional reviewing an industrial automation security update beside a closed PLC control cabinet.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency published six Rockwell Automation advisories on September 1, 2026, covering 11 vulnerabilities across industrial controllers, communications software, engineering utilities, activation management and an embedded historian. The affected products include RSLinx Classic, ControlLogix and CompactLogix platforms, FactoryTalk Activation Manager, the Redundancy Module Configuration Tool and FactoryTalk Historian Machine Edition. For … Read more

A Cyber Event Can Look Like a Gearbox Problem: What the Siemens S7 Threat Means for Plant Reliability

Siemens S7 PLC threat affecting industrial gearbox and plant control systems

On August 19, 2026, U.S. federal agencies issued an unusually direct warning to industrial operators: threat actors are actively targeting Siemens S7 programmable logic controllers in the United States, using AI-generated exploitation scripts disguised as legitimate monitoring tools. The National Security Agency, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, FBI, Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Agency … Read more