AI 'hacker' uncovers four severe EPICS bugs in under four hours
Original headline: AI 'hacker' finds 4 severe bugs in popular industrial control software in under 4 hours
An AI-powered hacking tool identified four severe vulnerabilities in EPICS, a widely used industrial control software, in less than four hours. One of the bugs is classified as critical and three as high severity, posing a risk of disrupting research experiments. The vendor has announced that patches are being prepared.
The discovery highlights the urgent need for rapid vulnerability management in industrial control systems used for research.
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