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Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws

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433 points zdw | 1 comments | 21 Oct 25 15:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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reenorap ◴[21 Oct 25 17:16 UTC] No.45658455[source]▶
There needs to be a law that all nuclear and nuclear-adjacent facilities have no connection to the Internet. The fact it's allowed is unbelievable.
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ferguess_k ◴[21 Oct 25 18:00 UTC] No.45659210[source]▶
I heard that once you put up a website on the public internet, it would immediately gets attacked by all kinds of scanners or other worse things. Not sure if it's true as I'm not a web guy.
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pdntspa ◴[21 Oct 25 18:05 UTC] No.45659306[source]▶
Back in the day, I made the mistake of hooking up a fresh Windows XP (at least I think it was; pre-SP2) install directly to the internet. There was no firewall or NAT to protect me. The machine got pwned almost immediately.
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1. fragmede ◴[22 Oct 25 02:11 UTC] No.45664186[source]▶
It's still true!

> What happens if you connect Windows XP to the Internet in 2024?

https://youtu.be/6uSVVCmOH5w