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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 2003-08-21
mitchshrader
A consultant* who does not KNOW, (INSIST to know, and INSIST on appropriate documentation of that knowledge) of potential security breaches by his own information access is incompetent, negligent, or both. In in potentially life-endangering task, it is that consultants' responsibility to ascertain t...

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