Archive for the 'Infrastructure' Category
How Somebody Forced the World’s Internet Traffic Through Belarus and Iceland
November 21st, 2013Via: AllThingsD: The attack — and Renesys maintains that it was an attack — targeted large Internet carriers in every major city in the U.S. and numerous major cities in Europe and around the world. The first incident took place during most of the month of February, when Internet traffic was silently redirected through an […]
Private Firms Selling Mass Surveillance Systems Around World
November 19th, 2013Via: Guardian: Private firms are selling spying tools and mass surveillance technologies to developing countries with promises that “off the shelf” equipment will allow them to snoop on millions of emails, text messages and phone calls, according to a cache of documents published on Monday. The papers show how firms, including dozens from Britain, tout […]
Fukushima Plant Fuel Rod Removals to Begin Today
November 17th, 2013Via: Blomberg: Tokyo Electric Power Co. will begin removing spent fuel today from the wrecked Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear facility, an early milestone in decommissioning that could threaten another crisis if mishandled. Removal of the first of the 1,533 fuel-rod assemblies at the plant’s No. 4 reactor building is scheduled to begin at about 3 p.m., […]
The Wall Street Code
November 16th, 2013Via: Backlight: Research Credit: JF
Ubiquity Eyes Turning Sears Auto Centers into Data Centers
November 16th, 2013Via: Data Center Knowledge: One of America’s retail pioneers may build a brand for the new economy, housing servers where it once changed your oil. Ubiquity Critical Environments, the data center unit of Sears Holdings, is considering a concept to convert some of its Sears Auto Center stores into data centers. It is working with […]
The Weaponized Internet
November 16th, 2013Via: Wired: The internet backbone — the infrastructure of networks upon which internet traffic travels — went from being a passive infrastructure for communication to an active weapon for attacks. According to revelations about the QUANTUM program, the NSA can “shoot” (their words) an exploit at any target it desires as his or her traffic […]
Stuxnet Infected Russian Nuclear Plant, International Space Station
November 11th, 2013Via: SC Magazine: Stuxnet had ‘badly infected’ the internal network of a Russian nuclear plant after the sophisticated malware caused chaos in Iran’s uranium facilities in Natanz. The malware, widely considered to have been developed by the US Government as a means to disrupt Iran’s uranium enrichment plans, had crossed a physically separated ‘air-gapped’ network […]
Los Angeles: Citywide Gigabit Access for Homes and Businesses
November 5th, 2013People living in shipping containers with fiber optic links to the Metaverse? *chortle* Via: Arstechnica: Los Angeles is about to unleash one of the most ambitious city-led broadband projects to date, with the goal of bringing fiber to all of its 3.5 million residents and all businesses. Next month, the city plans to issue an […]
Mob Illegally Dumped Nuclear and Industrial Waste Around Southern Italy
November 5th, 2013Via: Daily Mail: Toxic nuclear and industrial waste, dumped illegally by the Neapolitan mafia, is responsible for a surge in cancers in southern Italy, it is feared. The Italian Senate is investigating a link between buried pollutants and a rise of almost 50 per cent in tumours found in the inhabitants of several towns around […]
SSL Added and Removed Here! :)
October 30th, 2013And if they rely on SSL, well, that’s ok for buying a book online, but no tinfoiler in his right mind would bet his life on SSL. —The Ugly Truth About Online Anonymity What’s the difference between Paranoid Conspiracy Theorist and I told You So? About six years. Via: Washington Post: The National Security Agency […]
