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.

FORBES: Increased Computerization Means Increased Vulnerability

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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Those bits will be generated by application software designed and managed from the EDS acquisition, and hopefully travel through routers from the 3Com acquisition, in data centers managed by software HP built and acquired.

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During the quarter, we also strengthened our offering portfolio through the acquisition of a premiere software development company that specializes in big data, analytics and advanced applications.

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