Schneider's Telvent Smart Grid Control System Unit Responds to Network Attack

摘要

Infrastructure control system provider Telvent Canada Ltd., a unit of Schneider Electric, discovered an intrusion on its network affecting systems in Canada, the United States and Spain last month. The security breach, first made public on Sept. 26 by the computer security news blog KrebsOnSecurity.com, affected customer project files related to Telvent's OASyS DNA supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) software. Some of those files were reportedly stolen and malicious software was installed on the company's network. Telvent's SCADA systems are used by many electric, oil and gas, water and transportation providers for real-time control of their operations.