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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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Microsoft Windows in Mission Critical Environments 2003-08-22
Ryan Lambert
I tire of reading the posts about the "media and government are blind to the facts", Windows bashing. It's really getting old. And most of it is even untrue. Does anyone know why the first worm was created on Unix? It was honey. The most widely available system out there. Does anyone know why now th...

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