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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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Slammer worm crashed Ohio nuke plant network 2003-08-20
Anonymous
As usual, the author paints a story that it is unusual for there to be network connections that circumvent "the firewall".

While this is typical, a perimeter is a perimeter, and unless your neighbours are willing to harmonize policies on that common perimeter, your partners should be outside a p...

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