Power Industry Slammer #2
- Event Year
- 2003
- Reliability
- Confirmed
- Country
- United States
- Industry
- Power and Utilities
Description
The SCADA control network used frame relay. The telecommunications frame relay provider utilized Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) through the telecommunications network backbone for a variety of services. The ATM bandwidth became overwhelmed by the worm, blocking SCADA traffic on the Frame Relay service.
Impact
Loss of SCADA communications.