Industrial control system

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CISA, FBI warn of attacks on ICS integrators.

Federal agencies said malicious cyber actors may be targeting third-party industrial control system integration services.

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And so I was programming PLCs and setting up SCADA systems and telemetry.

I was very much deep into industrial control systems at that time.

And then right around 2000, 2001, we had some issues on our Chevron corporate network.

And because a lot of our plants were connected to the same network, you know, back at that time, there was no guidance around putting firewalls.

Yeah, and it...

What's fascinating about that incident to me is, um, in my m- previous to that incident, uh, I remember within the cybersecurity industry, our experts in ICS, or industrial control systems, I'm gonna be throwing that acronym around a lot, the ICS experts had been saying, "Listen, it's inevitable.

There's, there are going to be disabling attacks.

We're not trying to do FUD," fear, uncertainty, and doubt.

"We're not trying to, to, to, you know, to...

But we need to also be realistic that we recognize that, you know, ICS are huge targets.

They're a very appealing target, and it doesn't require much sophistication to necessarily take them out," which was, you know, very unsexy to [laughs] for-

Mm-hmm

Source.

The Hacker News.

ICS, Industrial Control Systems, Advisory CIS A Multiple ICS Advisories Published.

ABB Ability Edgeneus Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation.

CVE-2026-31431.

My guest today is Daniel Ehrenreich.

Daniel is an independent consultant in the areas of OT, ICS, IIoT security.

Daniel, can you please introduce us, introduce you to our listeners and tell us what's your background in OT in general? Since when have you been in the field and what are you working on lately? So thank

you for inviting me.

It's a pleasure for me to be here.

I'm a young expert with about 50 years of overall experience in the area of high-tech and electronics and computers and airborne systems.

In the past 36 years, I'm fully involved with industrial control systems, ICS, OT, some people call it SCADA.

and dealing with most of the verticals, the water, electricity, oil and gas, and the smart cities and even medical systems recently.

We have time for more Q&A, right? Next on our list is this question, and it asks, A cybersecurity expert is auditing a power generation facility which uses specialized equipment to monitor and control turbine speeds from a central room.

Which of the following best describes these systems? Is this IoT, VDI, RTOS, SD-WAN, or ICS? It's a lot of abbreviations.

If you're looking for acronyms, you're in the right place.

The Security Plus exam is full of acronyms, and this is a good example to test you not only in the acronym, but what the acronyms really mean.

So hopefully that can give you an idea.

The question again asks, A cybersecurity expert is auditing a power generation facility which uses specialized equipment to monitor and control turbine speeds from a central room.

Which of the following best describes these systems? Are they IoT, VDI, RTOS, SD-WAN, or ICS? If you think you know the answer, go to the link on your screen, professormester.com slash QA to lock in your answer.

Please no answers in the chat room.

Source, Security Week.

Aviva Pipeline Integrity Monitor, ICS, Industrial Control Systems, Vulnerability CIS A Published Advisory for Aviva Pipeline Integrity Monitor Lesser Equal 2025 SP1P1 with 4 Vulnerabilities CVE-2026-81821 Hard Coded Crypto Key Allows Password Decryption Weak password hashes enable brute force, unauthenticated read operations, and information disclosure.

Successful exploitation could allow password leakage, privilege escalation to PIM board's admin or information disclosure, and three additional CVEs.

See show notes for the full list Update to Aviva Pipeline Integrity Monitor 2025SB1P2.

Next section, vulnerability disclosures.

ICS, Industrial Control Systems, patch Tuesday.

Schneider Electric, Siemens Fix Critical Flaws Schneider Electric, patched Critical Authentication Vulnerability.

CVE-2026-3869.

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industrial controls integration.

Research what a PLC is and you'll see a very large amount of industries rely on them in some capacity.

Integrators are becoming gray and the talent pool isn't refilling.