There’s increasing anxiety about the industrial control systems that run factories, power plants and oil refineries. As those systems have become more reliant on the internet for efficiency, hackers see the systems as ripe targets for disruption.

ICS software vendors are increasingly developing mobile applications for flexible, remote control. But the security of those applications leaves much to be desired, according to two researchers.

That’s the conclusion of Alexander Bolshev, a security consultant with IOActive, and Ivan Yushkevich, an information security auditor with Embedi. Both co-presented a study of ICS mobile applications in 2015 at the Black Hat security conference that painted a bleak picture.

Read full news article on bankinfosecurity.com