By contrast, conventional monitoring technologies like supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) measure every two to four seconds without precise time synchronization.

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It takes control of the facility's SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition system) and through it, is able to destroy the facility.

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Within the next seven days, Rockwell Automation will release a patch for a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) vulnerability first made public last Friday.

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Scada (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) is the industry term for the computers behind the machinery in power plants, water treatment centres, traffic controls and other utilities.

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In that letter, he inquired about an AGA report called AGA-12 and efforts by the AGA to develop security standards for SCADA systems (supervisory control and data acquisition).

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On Monday, Dillon Beresford, an analyst for security auditing firm NSS Labs, took aim at Siemens in a message to a mailing list devoted to supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) software used in physical systems like power plants and factories.

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For example, a lot of critical infrastructure and manufacturing processes use supervisory, control and data acquisition software (SCADAS) that, as it turns out, have lots of security holes.

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Now they have revealed dozens of vulnerabilities in the supervisory, control and data acquisition (SCADA) software that much national infrastructure and manufacturing industry depends upon.

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