industrial automation

Festo’s automation stack has once again been thrust into the spotlight after a coordinated disclosure identified a large set of serious vulnerabilities in the way CODESYS is packaged and delivered with the Festo Automation Suite. The consolidated advisory—republished in CSAF form and summarized...

Schneider Electric has published an urgent security notification: a high‑severity flaw (CVE‑2026‑0667) in its SCADAPack™ x70 family and RemoteConnect software can be triggered over Modbus TCP and — if left unpatched — may allow remote attackers to cause denial of service, execute arbitrary code...

AI is already reshaping factories from the shop floor to the executive suite—enabling personalized products at scale, automating recurring workflows, and shrinking the gap between design, procurement, and production. What used to require manual coordination across departments can now be...