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Procurement notes and technical articles grouped under News for industrial automation buyers.
Jun 24, 2026
CISA’s June 23, 2026 advisory for ABB Freelance Security Lock carries a CVSS v3 score of 6.6, which may look moderate beside the highest-severity network advisories. A plant team should not dismiss it. The advisory describes a weakness that can allow access to underlying operating system functions when Freelance Operations is active, depending on configuration…
Jun 23, 2026
CISA’s June 16, 2026 advisory for Rockwell Automation CompactLogix controllers is a useful reminder that controller maintenance is not only a firmware task. The advisory described a denial-of-service risk. In a real plant, the consequence is more concrete: a packaging line, utility skid, compressor station, batching area, or machine cell may depend on a controller…
