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Slammer worm crashed Ohio nuke plant network
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2003-08-19

The Slammer worm penetrated a private computer network at Ohio's Davis-Besse nuclear power plant in January and disabled a safety monitoring system for nearly five hours, despite a belief by plant personnel that the network was protected by a firewall, SecurityFocus has learned.

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Anonymous (1 replies)
Actually a nuclear power plant it about the last place I'd like to see adopt a patch-without-test policy! I think the knee-jerk reaction to automatically update patches works OK on home PCs, and can work in other scenarios as well.

I don?t know anyone who runs a ?mission critical? system that does wholesale patching; and the consequence is a mere loss of thousands to millions of dollars. When you have a system whose failure could endanger lives and cause vast amounts of property damage - it would be criminal negligence.

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