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Ping Sweep Caused DOS on PCN Firewall

Event Year
2005
Reliability
Confirmed
Country
United Kingdom
Industry
Petroleum

Description

An open rulebase on a PCN firewall allowed a ping sweep from an external network onto the PCN to use up all available licenses on the PCN firewall. This meant the firewall denied connectivity to genuine process related traffic into the PCN.

Impact

Manual procedures used to obtain remote data feed information into PCN.