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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 2003-08-27
Anonymous
So, what's your job, sysadmin ?

Patching and patching, whole day long, every week again and again...

What about the 'other' work ? If you buy a car, you can normally drive away in it immediately, and don't have to patch the holes in it whole the time.

I guess you do agree that this will infl...

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