, 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
It's really easy for you to comment about what should or should not have been done by the people at the N-plant. But it seems that none of you have actually worked with these systems.
(1) They are not home-grown but commercial systems, so you have little choice as to the operating system or da...
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