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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
THis is further evvidence, that most likely the worm caused the blackout... also i hope this teaches stupid big companies to stop using M$ software, its a piece of shit for serious business. only desktop users should use m$ software cause of the games, entertainment etc. SWITCH TO *nix...

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