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Microsoft Worms Crash Ohio Nuke Plant, MD Trains
stieglmant writes "For everyone who thought the 'blackout of 2003' was bad, how about this, according to an article at SecurityFocus, and another article at The Register, '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.'" Russell writes "Maryland MARC Train Service was shut down most of Wednesday morning due to what sounds like the MS-Blast worm or one of its variants. The local Baltimore news reports that the cause was a signal malfunction but CSX, whose communications system runs the tracks, has an article describing the shutdown as a result of 'a worm virus similar to those that have infected the systems of other major companies and agencies in recent days'. This indicates that the network that the train signaling stations are on is not protected by firewalls, at least to block ports 135 and 444 where the DCOM vulnerability is attacked. Wow, taken to the extreme, the exploitation of their systems could have caused a train collision and injury or death to hundreds of Maryland and Virginia commuters."
1. Worms infect Internet taking control of nuclear power stations and public transport
/. story is about someone inventing 2 million sunblock or we're all going to have a really bad day.
2. Japan announces 30 year program to build intelligent robots
3. New Scientist reports self-healing robots a reality, can survive battle damage
4. Arnold announces "I will go to Sacramento and I will clean house".
All I can say is that I hope the next
John.
The MARC network admin should be tied to the tracks a la dudly doright (sp?). Hope that signal to switch the tracks gets though...damn... That'll learn ya for hooking an operational network to the 'net'.
Same with the power plant. Your office is now located in side the containment building. Do you think they would pay more attention to the network security?
Microsoft announced today that they are in talks to use Homer Simpson as a spokes person.
The difference between Canada and the USA is that in Canada healthcare is a right and gun ownership is a privilege.
I checked my Solaris, AIX and Linux machines and couldnt find any worms or virus. Where is everyone find these things?
Is there a Springfield in Ohio?
Simpson promoted
August 10, 2003
Springfield, Ohio
Springfield's own Homer Simpson was promoted to IT manager of Springfield's nuclear power plant today. Simpson promised that his first act would be to remove Unix from all of the power plant's computers. "Whoever heard of Unix anyway? I run Windows at home as do most Springfield residents. If it's good enough for playing games, it's good enough to run our nuclear power plant!", Simpson declared.
Because a fault-tolerant, real-time system is EXPENSIVE. Plus, they wanted clippy.
"It looks like you are trying to prevent a meltdown!"
ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI