Scarthy © ® ™ Posted August 20, 2003 Report Share Posted August 20, 2003 Hi all ;),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.View - Full Story Here.Scary Stuff....;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent Smith Posted August 20, 2003 Report Share Posted August 20, 2003 Not toooo sure what the bad news is here.Is it that the site suffered a security breach? :( Or that the reactor was offline because the workers found a 6" x 5" hole in the reactor head? :blink: :( :( Mr. M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted August 21, 2003 Report Share Posted August 21, 2003 Mr Invincible Mouse, the main point is the security breach. The fact that the plant was offline in any case is irrelevant. None of us wants our computers compromised by hackers, virus's, worms etc, but the danger to us all is that these idiots can compromise all sorts of utilities, such as ambulance, fire fighters, hospitals, air traffic control, police etc. The sooner all countries get together with software manufacturers and develop more foolproof systems, and better detection systems the better for the world as a whole, and the sooner ALL countries agree that people found guilty of these crimes get an automatic life sentence, the better. Lives can be at stake with the work of these idiots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popeye Posted August 21, 2003 Report Share Posted August 21, 2003 Well said andsome. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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