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"Data storm" blamed for nuclear-plant shutdown
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2007-05-18

The U.S. House of Representative's Committee on Homeland Security called this week for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to further investigate the cause of excessive network traffic that shut down an Alabama nuclear plant.

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Re: "Data storm" blamed for nuclear-plant shutdown 2007-05-23
p0wer-p3ntester
As an evidentally more knowledgable "Security" professional in the space, I can tell you Control Systems are are generally _more_ trivial to exploit than one is led to believe.

However, modern US "reactor protection systems", which do not reside on the Ethernet, would prevent even an "intentional...

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