full-disclosure - Al Qaida claims responsibility for blackout

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Message-ID: <20030820205755.06FA538108@mail.secnap.net>
From: scheidell at secnap.net (Michael Scheidell)
Subject: Al Qaida claims responsibility for blackout

> I particularly like this:
> 
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,95049,00.html
> "In the entire history of FirstEnergy, FirstEnergy spokesman Todd Schneider
> said there hasn't been an outage of any system due to hackers, and that that
> the weather in northeastern Ohio did more damage.

In light of this:

"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. "

see: http://www.security-focus.com/news/6767

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