Archive for the 'Infrastructure' Category
Backdoors in RuggedCom Networking Equipment
May 11th, 2012Via: Wired: A Canadian company that makes equipment and software for critical industrial control systems planted a backdoor login account in its flagship operating system, according to a security researcher, potentially allowing attackers to access the devices online. The backdoor, which cannot be disabled, is found in all versions of the Rugged Operating System made […]
U.S. Bridges, Roads Being Built by Chinese Firms
April 16th, 2012This is from 2011. Via: ABC News:
Radioactive Particles from Fukushima Disaster Were Detected in Kelp Off Southern California
April 10th, 2012Via: San Francisco Chronicle: Kelp off California was contaminated with short-lived radioisotopes a month after Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant accident, a sign that the spilled radiation reached the state’s coastline, according to a new scientific study. Scientists from CSU Long Beach tested giant kelp collected off Orange County, Santa Cruz and other locations after […]
Situation at Fukushima Has Potential to, “Destroy the World Environment and Our Civilization”
April 8th, 2012Via: Akio Matsumura: Japan’s former Ambassador to Switzerland, Mr. Mitsuhei Murata, was invited to speak at the Public Hearing of the Budgetary Committee of the House of Councilors on March 22, 2012, on the Fukushima nuclear power plants accident. Before the Committee, Ambassador Murata strongly stated that if the crippled building of reactor unit 4—with […]
Tokyo Soil Samples Would Be Considered Radioactive Waste In U.S.
March 29th, 2012Via: Fairewinds Energy Education: Tokyo Soil Samples Would Be Considered Nuclear Waste In The US from Fairewinds Energy Education on Vimeo. While traveling in Japan several weeks ago, Fairewinds’ Arnie Gundersen took soil samples in Tokyo public parks, playgrounds, and rooftop gardens. All the samples would be considered nuclear waste if found here in the […]
Radiation Inside Fukushima Reactor So High That New Machines Must Be Designed to Monitor It
March 28th, 2012Via: Washington Post: One of Japan’s crippled nuclear reactors still has fatally high radiation levels and hardly any water to cool it, according to an internal examination Tuesday that renews doubts about the plant’s stability. A tool equipped with a tiny video camera, a thermometer, a dosimeter and a water gauge was used to assess […]
Visa’s Secret Data Center
March 26th, 2012Via: USA Today: Prisons are easier to enter than Visa’s top-secret Operations Center East, its biggest, newest and most advanced U.S. data center. The 8-acre facility looks like any other industrial park in a sleepy suburb. But the serene setting masks hundreds of cameras and a crack team of former military personnel. Hydraulic bollards beneath […]
London Undergroun Expansion Is Largest Civil Engineering Project in Europe
March 16th, 2012Via: BBC: Tunnelling work is about to begin on a grand scale in London as the £16bn Crossrail project gets set to build 26 miles (42km) of tunnels beneath the capital. The first of eight highly specialised Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM), which each weigh nearly 1,000 tonnes, is being positioned at Royal Oak in west […]
The Little White Box That Can Hack Your Network
March 4th, 2012Smaller organizations might not have the equipment or the expertise to defend against the Pwn Plug, but for enterprises to get nailed by this thing amounts to comedy gold. Note: The U.S. Department of Defense is a large Pwn Plug customer. *chortle* The first line of defense should be to train staff to resist social […]
Internet and Blackberry Services Down at Pentagon
March 2nd, 2012Via: Herald Sun: THE US military’s Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) shut down access to the internet and Blackberry service while work was being done to fix an unspecified problem, yesterday. The shutdown, which came around 10:00am local time, meant that no one in the Pentagon had internet access. Many military downrange, including combatant commands, […]
