Archive for the 'Infrastructure' Category
Massive Blackout in Brazil and Paraguay; Tens of Millions Were Without Power
November 11th, 2009Via: AFP: A blackout across much of southern Brazil overnight plunged tens of millions of residents in the country’s biggest cities into a state of anxiety and raised questions Wednesday over national energy security. The outage, which started at 10:15 pm Tuesday (0015 GMT Wednesday), originated at the Itaipu hydroelectric plant that straddles the border […]
60 Minutes: Sabotaging The System
November 9th, 2009Watch CBS News Videos Online
NSA Has Conspicuous Role in New Federal Cybersecurity Center
November 2nd, 2009Don’t miss the last sentence. Via: Newsweek: If anything, the Obama administration, citing the threats of computer hacking and cyberterrorism, is now moving to involve the NSA more deeply in domestic security issues. The growing role of the NSA—a Defense Department agency with thousands of military personnel—in domestic matters was on semi-public display on Friday. […]
Sweden Loses its Internet Connection for an Hour
October 14th, 2009Via: Telegraph: At 9:45pm local time on Monday 12 October, every Swedish website went down, and no emails to or from Swedish domains could be received. Around 900,000 domains were affected. The problem was caused by an “incorrectly configured script” in an update of the .se domain, according to Pingdom, a Swedish web monitoring company. […]
IBM’s Backup Plan for Air New Zealand Smacks the Deck
October 12th, 2009I casually Googled my way around some infrastructure vulnerabilities in New Zealand. All I’ll say is that you wouldn’t believe me if I told you. There’s an address in Auckland that would take the breath away of anyone who knew what they were looking at. As I was looking at it, marveling at it, via […]
Earth Liberation Front Topples Radio Towers in Washington State
September 6th, 2009ELF members pick really stupid targets—considering that decades to life in prison is what they’ll get if they’re caught. The same methods used to carry out the operation below could have been applied in other areas to cause extremely serious disruptions to the system that they are allegedly trying to topple. I see three possibilities […]
Data Detailing New York Stock Exchange Network Exposed on Unsecured Server
July 29th, 2009Via: Wired: Sensitive information about the technical infrastructure of the New York Stock Exchange’s computer network was left unsecured on a public server for possibly more than a year, Threat Level has learned. The data, which was removed after Threat Level disclosed the situation to the NYSE, included several directories of files containing logs; server […]
Apple’s iPhone of Mass Destruction Nonsense
July 29th, 2009If it’s not a locked down vending machine, 100% controlled by Apple, it’s a weapon of mass destruction. HAHAHA I’m very glad to have an excuse to post this Onion piece to go along with this: Apple Claims New iPhone Only Visible To Most Loyal Of Customers. Via: Threat Level: The nation’s cellphone networks could […]
Public Menace Exxon Sabotaged Oil Wells
July 17th, 2009Via: Bloomberg: Exxon Mobil Corp., the largest U.S. oil company, may be fined more than $1 billion for “malicious” sabotage of wells to prevent other producers from tapping fields it no longer wanted, the Texas General Land Office said. Jerry Patterson, commissioner of the land office that oversees oil leases that help fund Texas schools, […]
Federal Web Sites Knocked Out by Cyber Attack
July 8th, 2009Via: AP: A widespread and unusually resilient computer attack that began July 4 knocked out the Web sites of several government agencies, including some that are responsible for fighting cyber crime, The Associated Press has learned. The Treasury Department, Secret Service, Federal Trade Commission and Transportation Department Web sites were all down at varying points […]
