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Slammer worm crashed Ohio nuke plant network (Still Think The Blackout Wasn't A Cyber Attack???)
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| Aug 19 2003
| Kevin Poulsen
Posted on 08/22/2003 2:01:06 AM PDT by RepublicanArmy
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To: bets
I heard something to that effect last Saturday from someone who works there. I got no details, but it was something to the effect that, "This was an impossibility."
Sounded like a hacker or virus to me.
To: Dog
How do you know it wasn't interal sabotage?
Know how many visas we have in this country doing IT work?
To: FixitGuy
Cleveland doesn't even have generators for its water system. That's worse to me.
To: mabelkitty
How many H1Bs and Greencard holders who are also part of Al Qaida cells do First Energy and Detroit Edison employ? Note the large concentrations of such folks in these two companies areas of operations.
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posted on
08/22/2003 2:48:38 PM PDT
by
GOP_1900AD
(Un-PC even to "Conservatives!" - Right makes right)
To: belmont_mark
the virus has be introduced onto a system inside the corporate firewall, it cannot "get in" so long as even basic firewall prudence is used.
To: RepublicanArmy
I manage data backbones.......... This is asinine; safety and control systems have no need to be connected to the public internet....
To: FairOpinion
Bump!
47
posted on
08/23/2003 1:00:10 AM PDT
by
JustPiper
(The Free Republic of America! "W" is our President !!!)
To: swarthyguy
"Evidence of absence is not absence of evidence" - Condi Rice. Great Condi quote!
48
posted on
08/23/2003 1:05:01 AM PDT
by
JustPiper
(The Free Republic of America! "W" is our President !!!)
To: chimera
What about someone being their for hands-on sabotage?
49
posted on
08/23/2003 1:06:00 AM PDT
by
JustPiper
(The Free Republic of America! "W" is our President !!!)
To: mabelkitty
How do you know it wasn't interal sabotage? Know how many visas we have in this country doing IT work?
Bump!
50
posted on
08/23/2003 1:07:00 AM PDT
by
JustPiper
(The Free Republic of America! "W" is our President !!!)
To: RepublicanArmy
bump
51
posted on
08/23/2003 1:08:50 AM PDT
by
VOA
To: All
Ok sorry about taking so long to get back to ya'll but had computer problems. Anyways to those of you who already posted this story I'm sorry I missed the thread.
Now I want to clairify what my position is on this. I'm not saying it was Al-Quaida that did this but I do believe it's possible it was a cyber attack via worm, virus, etc...
I can't believe they have have them on an online network either, it just sounds plain stupid to me. They need to get them off a network and deal with them individually are we are all in big trouble.
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posted on
08/23/2003 4:26:18 AM PDT
by
RepublicanArmy
(God bless our Troops, Our President, & God Bless America!!!)
To: JustPiper
What about someone being their for hands-on sabotage? Sabotage what, the hardwired system? Since the control room is a secured area then the security guards kill the saboteur. Since the safety systems are fail-safe then you might have to re-start the plant after an unplanned shutdown and repairs to whatever switches or modules might have been damaged, but that's about it.
Sabotage the computer system? Well, like I said, that doesn't run the plant anyway. So if your computer is acting flaky you run the plant with the usual standalone, hardwired controls, and do what most of us here do when our computers act weird. Fix the bug ourselves, or get our computer geek buddy to help us, or call in a professional.
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posted on
08/23/2003 7:58:53 AM PDT
by
chimera
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