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Researcher Claims Siemens Lied About Security Bugs
12/22/2011

Chicksdaddy writes "A month after an unknown gray hat hacker calling himself 'pr0f' used a three fame password to hack his way onto Siemens windows used to manage water care equipment in South Houston, Texas, a safeguard clinician working for Google is criminate the company of trying to cover up the existence of other, more serious vulnerabilities in its products. Billy Rios has disclosed a range of vulnerabilities in Siemens SIMATIC disk business expenses expenses system on his blog. The holes could allow a remote attacker to gain access to the Simatic user graphical user command-line graphical user interface without a user name and password. Rios claims that he has disclosed the hole to Siemens and that the company has acknowledged the problem, only to deny its existence when a stringer asked for more earful* about the vulnerability."



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