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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 2003-08-25
Anonymous
absolutely agreed upon.

there are (and shall be) more microsoft related worms coming out then any other because:

a. microsoft products are widely used and hence easy to target in order to effectively and rapidly affect large #s of hosts on the internet

b. the hatred against microsoft is another k...

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