If you thought hacking of vulnerabilities was limited only to computers and cell phones, the latest advisory issued by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) will give you some food for thought.
The advisory warns of two serious vulnerabilities that have been detected in ProLogic Congrammable trollers (PLCs), high-tech devices used in industrial machines for automatic performance.
The most serious example of PLCs being hacked was observed in 2010, when Israel exploited vulnerabilities in PLCs to hack and disable Iran's nuclear enrichment facility.
Almost every automatic machine in this day and age runs on a PLC, and successful exploitation of these PLCS could lead to the crash of entire industries, cyber expert say.
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