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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: Re: "Data storm" blamed for nuclear-plant shutdown 2007-05-25
DeMartian
It does state in the article that a simple safe-mode Nessus scan will bring the devices down, so I don't think there is any argument that these devices are written poorly.

It seems that they are able to shut them down manually and restart them and they are ok with that rather than holding the ven...

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