He said Britain's critical infrastructure was vulnerable to disruption at sites where industrial control systems were linked to the internet.
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For example, industrial control systems are largely computer controlled and they can be reached in some cases from the Internet.
Unlike Stuxnet, which specifically damaged Siemens PCS 7 systems, Duqu appears to be only collecting information about the design of other industrial control systems.
The virus penetrated the Iranian systems through Siemens industrial control systems.
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That has left industrial control systems vulnerable to attack.
After graduation he landed at a firm that built industrial-control-and-testing equipment, working as chief engineer.
Symantec observed virtually no targeted attacks before Stuxnet, a worm that attacked industrial-control systems, appeared in 2010.
What is clear is that critical infrastructure and industrial plant control systems are coming under more scrutiny from both attackers and defenders.
In December it announced that state-owned enterprises under the central government would remain in control of industrial sectors considered crucial to national security and economic welfare: military equipment, electric power, oil and petrochemicals, telecommunications, coal, aviation and shipping.
Margaret Beckett, president of the Board of Trade, refused to give up control of the industrial aid and business support services run by her ministry.
These, he says, are 1, 500 times better than existing sensors at detecting hydrogen. (The gas combines with the tubes, changing their electrical properties.) Hydrogen detection is used to help control certain processes in industrial food production, for tweaking fuel combustion in car engines, and in monitoring certain bacterial infections.
Enernoc's computers sent commands to control units at 250 commercial and industrial buildings in the region.
He will likely pursue other radical reforms including increasing state control over the natural-resource industrial sector.
One of the key businesses of United Technologies is also in the area of climate control systems and services for multifamily, commercial and industrial facilities.
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"We advise that following failed pay talks yesterday in Paris, French port control officers will be holding a national day of industrial action which is likely to affect the majority of ports in France, " the spokeswoman said.
The sorts of computer systems it enters are those that control critical infrastructures like power plants, refineries and other industrial targets.
The two bosses want to replace the current arrangements which give effective joint control to three shareholders - Lagardere, the French state, and German industrial group Daimler, which owns 22.5% of the company.
Forus was just one of a number of companies owned (directly or indirectly) by Berezovsky in Russia, Cyprus, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Ireland and the Caribbean to take control of the hard-currency revenues of several of Russia's biggest industrial companies.
Concentration for most pollutants remains high despite legislation passed in 2002 to control emissions in ten of China's biggest cities and several river valleys that provide industrial arteries into the interior from the heavily populated coasts.
The first of those took place last July, when Abderrahmane Kheddar, director of the CNRS-AIST joint robotics laboratory at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tsukuba, Japan, and his team used FMRI to allow someone to control a robot located thousands of miles away using only their thoughts.
In the Industrial Age, because the corporate bosses owned the means of production, they had the wherewithal to command and control.
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