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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
Dmitriy <maniac (at) angrycube (dot) com [email concealed]>
If Homer Simpson does work at that plant, I'd say that he is the System Administrator. Leaving servers unpatched like that is pretty sad, especially in a critical place like this. May this be another lesson to all (eventhough no one seems to learn anyway) - patch your systems!...

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