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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
Gallomimia
True. Anyone who uses an Operating System on a computer that does anything with machinery at all should know what that OS does. Microsoft OS's are vulnerable as a newborn kitten without proper protection.

In addition to those steps I would implement software-firewalls with reporting on all comput...

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