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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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Unbelieveably Irresponsible 2003-08-21
Anonymous
First of all, why were critical monitoring systems on the same network that was used for Internet access (presumably email, web browsing, etc.)?

Second, a firewall does no good if there are other routes with no protection. All modems, leased lines, etc. should go through an approval process. Id...

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