, 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.
Anonymous System Administrator
Having maintained such systems, I can say that some vendors are very good about testing their products with patches and will advise and assist when critical patches are released.
Other (read: most) vendors are g-dawful, however. The software barely functions on an outdated version of the ope...
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