Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 05, 2003 01:17 AM
Your claim that Windows cannot be involved is contradicted by the January event, as mentioned in the article:
> Just such a problem surfaced in January at the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant operated by FirstEnergy, the Ohio utility under close scrutiny for its role in the East Coast's largest-ever blackout. The Slammer worm penetrated the plant's internal network and lodged in an unpatched Windows server. The worm's scanning slowed the internal network to a crawl, eventually crashing the plant's Safety Parameter Display System, according to reports.
See the article for the links.
However, I am willing to concede the possibility that the systems may vary from state to state, and that some states have utility managers who are competent enough to keep Windows off of their networks.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 05, 2003 01:17 AM> Just such a problem surfaced in January at the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant operated by FirstEnergy, the Ohio utility under close scrutiny for its role in the East Coast's largest-ever blackout. The Slammer worm penetrated the plant's internal network and lodged in an unpatched Windows server. The worm's scanning slowed the internal network to a crawl, eventually crashing the plant's Safety Parameter Display System, according to reports.
See the article for the links.
However, I am willing to concede the possibility that the systems may vary from state to state, and that some states have utility managers who are competent enough to keep Windows off of their networks.
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