However, Douglas Wylie, Business Development Manager for Networks and Security at Rockwell Automation said in-house research found the vulnerability to be more pervasive within the Rockwell family of software.

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Rockwell Automation, which makes machinery and software for mostly industrial customers, said Wednesday that its first-quarter sales in Asia dropped 16 percent compared with the same period a year earlier.

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Rockwell's future, Jones says, lies in software development.

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Mr Li, from China's Chengdu province, targeted software from big manufacturers including Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and Rockwell Automation before selling them on to 325 buyers, including a Nasa engineer as well as military contractors.

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