[CLUE-Talk] Windows virus affect nuclear plants!!

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This is an old one and was reported on Slashdot about a week ago. At the
same time, one of the Transit Authorities (I think Maryland), also
reported that this Windows virus caused their signaling system to
shutdown. Fortunately, no injuries resulted.

Here is the story:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/21/1343227&mode=thread&tid=109&tid=126&tid=128&tid=172&tid=187

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On 28 Aug 2003 08:34:17 -0600
Kevin Cullis <kevincu at orci.com> wrote:

> This is disturbing:
> 
> 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. 
> 
> http://www.securityfocus.com/news/6767
> 
> Not that I'm against nuclear power, but using Windows in a nuclear
> power plant.
> 
> Kevin
> 
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