This is a scary story. Can you imagine the Blue Screen of Death on a Nuclear reactor monitoring system!!!
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/6868
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Tuesday issued a formal Information Notice to nuclear power plant operators warning them about an incident in January in which the Slammer computer worm penetrated networks at Ohio's Davis-Besse nuclear plant and disabled two important monitoring systems for hours.
The notice is the NRC's first public acknowledgement of the incident, which was first reported by SecurityFocus last month. .......
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