RE: [Full-Disclosure] Al Qaida claims responsibility for blackout

["Drew Copley" <dcopley@eeye.com>]

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> From: scheidel@secnap.net [mailto:scheidel@secnap.net] On 
> Behalf Of Michael Scheidell
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 1:58 PM
> To: Geoff Shively
> Cc: Drew Copley; full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com
> Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] 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

Yes, this has been very interesting, this story. 

People don't realize that a lot of these systems run on Windows NT and
etc, a lot actually are on wireless networks (how convenient)... And,
etc, etc, etc horrible news. Not that this should surprise anyone in
security. (This may have been discussed on the giant thread somewhere,
haven't checked yet).





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