, 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
Very well said! I was thinking the same thing as I read through this thread. It's not Microsofts fault this plant got slammed. Its the admins that don't patch, or think of security that were at fault here. "They didn't realize there was a patch?"!!!!! No excuse!...
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