Maybe im just a simple residential/commercial electrician but how do you hack a PLC?? Are newer ones connected to the actual internet for some ungodly reason?

Genuine question as I have quite little experience in industrial. They've always seemed fairly straightforward to me, just a bunch of relays I thought.

the usa continuously invade other countries and bullshit about them too, they have been doing it for decades. why would anyone believe them about anything?

Several U.S. government agencies warned that unidentified hackers are trying to breach devices made by Siemens t

That's a completely different statement from the one in the title.

Of course they are as Israel and US know very well. Ask Iran if you don't believe it.

"Country that started some shit warns about some incoming bad shit"

Stop don't know why things like this are on networks that connect in any way To the outside world. This should require physical access.

Oh how the turntables

A security advisor at work recommends migrating to SaaS so we don't have to manage any of the infrastructure. This makes me wonder.

These topics often get "why is it even connected to the internet" comments. This makes me wonder if they're buying a "complete system solution" where it's not an operator decision but a manufacturer decision, and maybe even reasonable in regards to generally being accessible and manageable, with critical systems separated within the whole-bundle system. But often, the necessary safeguards and system separation are not in place anyway. Offloading responsibility doesn't mean it gets done well, unfortunately.

That's so ironic. Remember stuxnet. This could even be some false flag attack.