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Researchers Find Serious Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities In Siemens Operating System Software: Report

Researchers have shared details about cybersecurity vulnerabilities with Siemens software with CNN and are working with the company to mitigate the risk.

Siemens Healthineers name on its offices in Issaquah, WA

Researchers have found a cybersecurity vulnerability in a Siemens software used by a slew of medical devices. According to a report by CNN, the researchers, Siemens and federal agencies worked together to mitigate the threat, and so far no one has been adversely affected.

The cybersecurity firms Forescout Technologies and Medigate informed CNN that some versions of Siemens’ Nucleus Real-time Operating System (RTOS) could...

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