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  • initialism Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition Electrical network typically containing at least RTU's, IED's, and a master station equipped with an HMI. Used to monitor and control process automation systems, such as those used by electrical and water utilities.

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Examples

  • What if, for example, a sewage treatment facility's SCADA is taken over by attackers who would send a command to open all valves and spigots of the Tehran sewage treatment facility and flood the capital city with raw sewage?

    Haggai Carmon: A Cyber War Against Iran: Whodunit? Haggai Carmon 2010

  • What if, for example, a sewage treatment facility's SCADA is taken over by attackers who would send a command to open all valves and spigots of the Tehran sewage treatment facility and flood the capital city with raw sewage?

    Haggai Carmon: A Cyber War Against Iran: Whodunit? Haggai Carmon 2010

  • Those control systems are often dubbed SCADA, for "supervisory control and data acquisition."

    CIO News 2010

  • Broadly referred to as SCADA systems, these solutions typically leverage the OPC standard, a specification that, according to the OPC

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • Siemens alerted customers of its Simatic WinCC management software that attacks using the vulnerability were targeting computers used to manage large-scale industrial control systems, often called SCADA, for "supervisory control and data acquisition."

    Techworld.com News 2010

  • The systems that run the Siemens software, called SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems, are typically not connected to the internet for security reasons, but this virus spreads when an infected USB stick is inserted into a computer.

    PC Advisor News 2010

  • According to experts there are several reasons why someone might want to break a SCADA system "There may be money in it," McGrew said.

    Techworld.com News 2010

  • According to experts there are several reasons why someone might want to break a SCADA system "There may be money in it," McGrew said.

    Computerworld News 2010

  • The systems that run the Siemens software, called SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems, are typically not connected to the Internet for security reasons, but this virus spreads when an infected USB stick is inserted into a computer.

    Techworld.com News 2010

  • According to experts there are several reasons why someone might want to break a SCADA system "There may be money in it," McGrew said.

    PC Advisor News 2010

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