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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."
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This would be a good idea. This would be a very good idea. To post this first and get recognition of the first post, 30d would be 30ded on national tv exposure. Good. Success. I enjoy.
..that there are retards in the world who keep me employed through there inability to do the job for which they were hired.
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
Microsoft products are not to be trusted and put in the internet. If you want to connect them to net, please please put them behind a firewall. You can setup one with an old 486 system.
I am willing to take bets on when first lawsuit lands in court 'PEOPLE vs. MSFT' about this problem.
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/me/ down will you. I sure showed you!
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Err... Wait, was that just an admission of guilt? Crap.
In Soviet Russia...michael would be rotting in Siberia!
..should be fired. Why was the safety monitoring system on a nuclear power plant exposed, even indirectly, to the internet?
and why the hell is it running windows?
sorry but sopmething like that needs to be on something that is proven stable.
The engineers need to be beaten with large boards with nails in them.
put it on a good old proven UNIX, solaris or something else that is used in the mission critical world.
only complete idiots put important things like a nuclear power plant or a water treatment plant on a windows base.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
It's the price of the deregulation snake oil that the clinton era has been selling the public, and the lack of minimum reliability and accountability in power providers.
The only reason there are no Linux worms is becuase nobody uses that crap!