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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
Anonymous
Have to agree with you. As the owner of a small computer shop where I have been fixin' for 18 years, I don't see how ANYONE can trust an MS product in a high-security function. The MS rush-to-market of new products is based on pure greed and speed, not quality. MS has NEVER produced a tight, high qu...

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