MS Worm caused blackout?

[Garrett Goebel]

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
>
> According to Robert X. Cringely from Info World, the recent
> MS Blaster worm may have actually been responsible for the
> Great Blackout of Ought Three.

Well... there was an article at SecurityFocus cited by The Register:

"Slammer worm crashed Ohio nuke plant net"
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/6767

> 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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