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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
It just scares me hearing microsoft and powerplant in the same sentence. Atleast if you do, be smart about it, use a firewall + ids + data integrity. There are plenty of options for running insecure software safely....

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