Tuesday, August 19, 2003

Did MSBlast Worm Crash the Nation's Energy Grid? Common Sense Technology: No one is saying that yet. But it has come to light that FirstEnergy, the company in the crosshairs of the power outage investigation, did succumb to the MS SQL "Slammer" worm back in January of this year. Prior to MS Blast, the MS SQL worm was considered the worst worm attack ever. The MS SQL worm disabled a nuclear power plant safety monitoring system in Ohio. According to the report the SQL Slammer took offline systems at other utilities too. 4:03:47 PM    comment []  trackback []

Sewage pharma [ChemWeb]: Sewage is full of... well... chemicals. It's not surprising really considering the stuff we pour down our plugholes and flush down our lavatories, writes David Bradley. 10:06:12 AM    comment []  trackback []