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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 appears the main problem in a mission critical environment like this is more related to HR hiring policies. If the IT people did not know about the T1, and left it unfiltered/monitored, then it would appear that they are hiring mere M$ trained technicians rather than properly trained and experie...

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