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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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MS Windows && Powerplants 2003-08-23
Anonymous
Well, I know a story of what did IBM engineers use in a nuclear power plant project in Ukraine (yes, Tschernobil is in Ukraine, but this is another story...). It was not UNIX nor Windows (I don't even consider linux in such environment) but merely QNX. None of the unices would sustain that mission c...

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