Microsoft finds vulnerabilities it says could be used to shut down power plants

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On Friday, Microsoft disclosed 15 high-severity vulnerabilities in a widely used collection of tools used to program operational devices inside industrial facilities such as plants for power generation, factory automation, energy automation, and process automation. The

Next-gen OSDP was supposed to make it harder to break in to secure facilities. It failed.

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Researchers have discovered a suite of vulnerabilities that largely break a next-generation protocol that was designed to prevent the hacking of access control systems used at secure facilities on US military bases and buildings belonging to

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