Archive for the 'Infrastructure' Category
EMP Shopping Cart Locker
July 2nd, 2007If you know even a little about the critical and undefended infrastructures that make modern society possible, you might find this article funny, and not funny, all at once. Note on a Different Matter: These people mention Tor. Please read The Ugly Truth About Online Anonymity if you haven’t already re: Tor. Via: Instructables: Ever […]
NSA, AT&T and the NarusInsight Intercept Suite
June 14th, 2007In the Ugly Truth About Online Anonymity, I wrote: There are dozens of off the shelf products that you would swear were designed for use by intelligence agencies, but they’re routinely peddled to—and used by—corporations. If corporations have and use these surveillance capabilities, what are the intelligence agencies running on the service providers’ networks? I’ll […]
FAA Computer Failure Cripples U.S. Air Traffic Control System
June 9th, 2007Via: Washington Post: A computer glitch at a flight information processing center this morning is delaying flights across the eastern seaboard, according to reports from the Federal Aviation Administration. FAA spokeswoman Diane Spitaliere said computer systems in Atlanta that process flight plan and weather-related data for flights nationwide failed early this morning, causing delays on […]
U.S. Legislation Would Bring Wind Power to ‘Grinding Halt’
May 29th, 2007Power crisis? The only power crisis we have involves the people in power. Isn’t it interesting how this affects individuals who use wind turbines?! Will the government’s service to the criminal mining and drilling interests be worth touching off armed standoffs over wind turbines? Hmm. Even I can’t believe the U.S. Government would be that […]
Project Hydra: “Attack-Proof” Power Line to be Installed Under New York
May 22nd, 2007Do you ever wonder why “the terrorists” don’t attack the undefended power and data infrastructures in the United States? You hear a lot about “the terrorists” trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction, but you don’t hear much about the damage that could be done with bolt cutters, shovels and wrenches. I guess we are […]
Symantec False Positive Cripples Thousands of Chinese PCs
May 20th, 2007Not as destructive as a powerful EMP weapon, but this is an impressive result for a software bomb. Via: Computerworld: A signature update to Symantec’s anti-virus software crippled thousands of Chinese PCs Friday when the security software took two critical Windows .dll files for malware. According to numerous blog entries from Chinese computer users, a […]
Excessive Network Traffic Blamed for Nuclear-Plant Shutdown
May 20th, 2007Via: Security Focus: The U.S. House of Representative’s Committee on Homeland Security called this week for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to further investigate the cause of excessive network traffic that shut down an Alabama nuclear plant.
Government Working on Plan for Aftermath of Nuclear Bombing of Major City
May 14th, 2007In, Waiting for Clarity on the Brink of Oblivion, I wrote: You do not want to try to reach the exit as millions of other people attempt to do the same thing. Waiting for clarity is not often rewarded. Many Cryptogon readers think that they’re going to hedge their bets, and stay put for as […]
The New PSYOP Payload: Bird Flu and the Collapse of the Internet
February 14th, 2007I’m still paying attention to the fallout from the incident involving the root DNS nodes. In the course of following that story, I came across the Strong Angel III operation, which proposed a scenario involving a pandemic avian flu outbreak with follow-on strategic information warfare attacks. Today, Slashdot linked to a story from last June […]
U.S. Military Plans for Cyber Counterattack
February 12th, 2007Via: Network World: If the United States found itself under a major cyberattack aimed at undermining the nation’s critical information infrastructure, the Department of Defense is prepared, based on the authority of the president, to launch a cyber counterattack or an actual bombing of an attack source. … This week’s massive but unsuccessful denial-of-service (DoS) […]
