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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
While I agree with you that may crashes/outages

are due to lazy sysadmins (all platforms), I must say that I'm shocked that there are Nuclear plants critical apps on the MS platform.

A robust Unix cluster with tripwire would be my personal choice.

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