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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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Slammer worm crashed Ohio nuke plant network 2003-08-24
Anonymous, System Administrator
I also find that the biggest problem facing the IT field, is the lack of RESPECT and communications.

I work in a large hospital, State run, that has NO knowledgable staff at all running their system. The Dept Head is a political appointee with a degree in STATISTICS. To add insult to injury, he i...

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