Industrial control systemsKaspersky warns of critical vulnerabilities
Security specialist Kaspersky has analyzed which industrial control systems are accessible via the Internet worldwide. Critical vulnerabilities were identified - at Siemens, Schneider Electric and other automation technology providers.
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Almost 88% of the IP addresses identified by Kaspersky (around 165,000) are registered via telecom providers, meaning that their actual owners could not be identified. In contrast, around 17,000 components connected to 13,700 host systems in 104 countries could be assigned to larger organizations or the enterprise level - most of them in the USA (almost 3,000 hosts), followed by France (1,331 hosts) and Italy (1,100 hosts).