Archive for the 'Infrastructure' Category
Chase.com Down in Lengthy Crash
September 15th, 2010Update: Down Again Via: Bloomberg: JPMorgan Chase & Co., whose website failed today for the second time this week, will refund late fees and help fix other problems for the 16.6 million online customers unable to access their accounts. —End Update— It’s back up. Via: CNN: Chase’s online banking website has been offline for most […]
Effingham Deputies Call Feds After Arresting Russians with Shovel, Wire Cutters Outside Georgia Power Plant
September 10th, 2010They were released because they, “Are supposed to be leaving the country soon”??? Via: Savannah Morning News: Effingham County sheriff deputies have reported the early Sunday morning arrest of three men to the federal Joint Terrorism Task Force. The men, two from Russia and one from Kazakhstan, were found near Georgia Power’s Plant McIntosh on […]
DHS Cybersecurity Watchdogs Miss Hundreds of Vulnerabilities on Their Own Network
September 9th, 2010Via: Wired: The federal agency in charge of protecting other agencies from computer intruders was found riddled with hundreds of high-risk security holes on its own systems, according to the results of an audit released Wednesday. The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team, or US-CERT, monitors the Einstein intrusion-detection sensors on nonmilitary government networks, and […]
Malware Implicated in Fatal Spanair Plane Crash
August 24th, 2010Update: Maybe Not Via: ZDnet: The actual cause is far more prosaic: the pilots missed a crucial item on their checklist and took off with the flaps in the wrong position: The investigation has determined that the takeoff was attempted while in an inappropriate and unapproved configuration, since the flaps and slats were fully retracted. […]
U.S. Electricity Blackouts Skyrocketing
August 10th, 2010Via: CNN: Throughout New York City, about 52,000 of ConEd’s 3.2 million customers lost power during the heat wave. Triple-digit temperatures forced residents like 77 year-old Rui Zhi Chen, to seek shelter at one of the city’s 400 emergency cooling centers. “It felt like an oven in my home and on the street,” Chen said. […]
Big Picture Gallery: Cleaning Dalian Harbor
August 1st, 2010* shaking head * Via: Boston Globe – Big Picture: The oil spill resulting from a pipeline explosion in the port city of Dalian on July 16th is being cleaned up by a small army of fisherman, locals, and government workers manning over 250 oil-skimming vessels and 8,000 fishing boats – much of the work […]
US-Canada Pipeline Leaks Oil Into Michigan River
July 28th, 2010Via: BBC: A pipeline carrying oil from the US state of Indiana to Ontario, Canada has spilled more than 800,000 gallons (3m litres) of oil into a creek which flows into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan. A spokesman for the firm running the pipeline, Enbridge Energy Partners, said a malfunction had caused the leak. The […]
Oil Spill: The Situation Off Bon Secour
June 21st, 2010Via: Press Register:
Cracks Show BP Battled Well Two Months Before Blast
June 18th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: BP Plc was struggling to seal cracks in its Macondo well as far back as February, more than two months before an explosion killed 11 and spewed oil into the Gulf of Mexico. It took 10 days to plug the first cracks, according to reports BP filed with the Minerals Management Service that […]
Internet ‘Kill Switch’ Proposed for U.S.
June 16th, 2010Oh sure. Via: ZDnet: A new US Senate Bill would grant the President far-reaching emergency powers to seize control of, or even shut down, portions of the internet. The legislation says that companies such as broadband providers, search engines or software firms that the US Government selects “shall immediately comply with any emergency measure or […]
