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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
twigles
Agreed, partners should be treated identically to the internet as far as threat-level. They may get a few port openings or something but they are *not to be trusted*. This Jim Davis guy pisses me off by doing corporate PR spinning in such a dangerous field; this isn't some credit card number leak....

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