Archive for the 'Infrastructure' Category
Asymmetric Warfare: Causing Incredible Economic Damage by Simply Smashing Machines
September 4th, 2007In 1996, when I suggested to a crusty, old professor of mine that crude, physical attacks on electricity and communications infrastructures could cause economic damage on par with conventional military attacks, but at a fraction of the cost, both in terms of money and manpower required, he chuckled. I wrote the term paper anyway. The […]
Saudis Set Up 35,000 Strong Force to Guard Oil Infrastructure
August 27th, 2007Support the Troops! Via: Financial Times: Saudi Arabia has begun setting up a 35,000-strong security force to protect its oil infrastructure from potential attacks. The move underlines the kingdom’s growing concern about its oil installations after threats from al-Qaeda to attack facilities in the Gulf, as well as rising tensions between Iran and the US. […]
Wells Fargo: WTF?
August 22nd, 2007I’d really like to know more about the nature of what actually happened with this Wells Fargo disaster. Redundancy is one of the main characteristics of mission critical systems. Wipe one box off the face of the earth, and there could be one, ten or dozens more, in different locations, waiting to take up the […]
Fiber-Optic Cables Near Cleveland Sabotaged
August 22nd, 2007Via: Network World: ISPs in the U.S. experienced a service slowdown Monday after fiber-optic cables near Cleveland were apparently sabotaged by gunfire. TeliaSonera, which lost the northern leg of its U.S. network to the cut, said that the outage began around 7 p.m. Pacific Time on Sunday night. When technicians pulled up the affected cable, […]
Barcelona Hit by Major Power Outage
July 23rd, 2007Muy frágil. Via: Washington Post: MADRID, Spain — A major power outage hit Barcelona on Monday, snarling traffic, hobbling public transportation and knocking out electricity to homes and businesses in much of Spain’s second-largest city. The outage began around 11 a.m. and affected traffic signals in much of the city center as well as several […]
Russian Energy Pipeline Giants to Form Corporate Armies
July 15th, 2007Via: mnweekly: Lawmakers voted Wednesday to give Russia’s natural-gas and oil pipeline monopolies the right to set up armed security units to protect the country’s energy infrastructure. One lawmaker said the move could lead to “a multitude of corporate armies.” Instead of hiring private security firms, state-controlled gas giant OAO Gazprom and oil pipeline monopoly […]
Mexico: Rebels Say Attack on Mexican Pipeline is Just the Beginning
July 12th, 2007Undefended, critical infrastructure… Via: Dallas Morning News: A shadowy leftist rebel group took responsibility Tuesday for a gas pipeline blast that shut down some industry in central Mexico, including two car assembly plants. The Popular Revolutionary Army, or EPR for its initials in Spanish, said Tuesday’s explosion and two similar attacks on Pemex pipelines in […]
Mexico Confirms Attacks on Pipelines
July 11th, 2007Via: Yahoo / AP: Mexico’s government on Tuesday called a series of gas pipeline explosions a threat to the nation’s democratic institutions and vowed to step up security after a guerrilla group claimed responsibility for the blasts. The Interior Department said it would take measures to protect “strategic installations” across Mexico after an explosion Tuesday […]
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 […]
