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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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Well said Ryan. I am not a professional IT, but I do know that the person installing the product has more responsibility than just installing it. If you don't educate your operators on security issues, it won't matter what product you use. My installer taught me the "how, when, why, what for, and how often" of my security software, as well as many other tips. I think this all depends on educating your users and not the product you use.

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