Archive for the 'Infrastructure' Category
Chicago Data Center Robbed… Again
November 4th, 2007And all the video security equipment was taken too. Via: Register: In the most recent incident, “at least two masked intruders entered the suite after cutting into the reinforced walls with a power saw,” according to a letter C I Host officials sent customers. “During the robbery, C I Host’s night manager was repeatedly tazered […]
Unloading Toxic Waste Mortgage Backed Securities: “We Americans Were Very Clever”
November 2nd, 2007We’ll see how clever they are when the Good Fellas show up to collect. At some point, this thing is going to start looking less like a financial crisis and more like a mob war. How do I know? Because I got a job that resulted from a decapitation strike against the computer systems of […]
AT&T Invents Programming Language for Mass Surveillance
October 31st, 2007Please indulge me by re-reading this extended passage from Synthetic Environments for Analysis and Simulation: Remember Russell Tice, the NSA SIGINT officer who had knowledge of a special access NSA operation that was so disturbing that he tried to tell the U.S. Congress about it? What was Tice talking about here: Tice said his information […]
Pandemic Test Undertaken by Financial Services Paints Dire Scenario
October 26th, 2007Mmmm Hmmm. Via: Computerworld: If a pandemic strikes the U.S., it will kill about 1.7 million people, hospitalize 9 million, exhaust antiviral medications and reduce basic food supplies, according to a planning scenario developed by financial service firms preparing for such a catastrophe. This particular disaster occurred only on paper. But those grim numbers are […]
Qwest Refused to Participate with Some Aspects of NSA Surveillance Program
October 11th, 2007Again, there’s something else that we’re not aware of yet. Something besides the run-of-the-mill surveillance. From the article about Qwest article below: Nacchio planned to demonstrate at trial that he had a meeting on Feb. 27, 2001, at NSA headquarters at Fort Meade, Md., to discuss a $100 million project. According to the documents, another […]
“Storm Isn’t Doing Much, so Far, Except Gathering Strength.”
October 4th, 2007Strange story about a worm that has been building a vast botnet of sleeper zombies. The thing has been growing for months. Very interesting read. Via: Wired: The Storm worm first appeared at the beginning of the year, hiding in e-mail attachments with the subject line: “230 dead as storm batters Europe.” Those who opened […]
U.S. Financial Institutions Involved with Three Week Bird Flu Pandemic Simulation
September 25th, 2007Liquidity problems? What liquidity problems? Via: AP: WASHINGTON Don’t be alarmed if your local bank teller is looking a bit sickly over the next three weeks. It is only a cyber-illness. Hundreds of banks and other financial institutions are participating in the largest test of its kind ever conducted to ensure the nation’s financial system […]
Who Needs Hackers?
September 13th, 2007Via: New York Times: NOTHING was moving. International travelers flying into Los Angeles International Airport — more than 17,000 of them — were stuck on planes for hours one day in mid-August after computers for the United States Customs and Border Protection agency went down and stayed down for nine hours. Hackers? Nope. Though it […]
MEXICO GAS LINE EXPLOSIONS FORCE MAJOR FACTORIES TO CLOSE DOWN
September 12th, 2007I can’t think of a time in history when the individual insurgent has had such an incredible asymmetric advantage over his opponent. Hierarchical dominator systems—now enjoying primacy on a global scale—exist atop a delicate grid of undefended energy and information infrastructures. With just a bit of intelligent planning, today’s insurgent can turn a small improvised […]
Mexico: Insurgents Attack Six Oil and Gas Pipelines
September 11th, 2007Undefended critical infrastructure… Via: Reuters: Explosions rocked Mexico on Monday as attacks on six pipelines disrupted oil and gas supplies and forced thousands from their homes, just weeks after leftist rebels set off a string of pipeline bombs. Huge billowing flames lit the night sky after the blasts in the early hours of the morning. […]
