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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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"Office for Home Security" Huh? 2003-08-22
Anonymous
What are these guys doing?

Are there any engineers working in the US who deserve that name? Or is everyone replaced by game playing hurray shouting 'patriots'?...

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