Archive for the 'Infrastructure' Category
Nigeria: Rebels Attack Multiple Oil Production Facilities
June 29th, 2009The ongoing oil infrastructure attacks in Nigeria have been stepped up in recent days. Shell is now having to shut in some production. Via: Reuters: Royal Dutch Shell said on Monday it had shut in some oil production at its western operations in Nigeria’s Niger Delta while it investigated reports of attacks on two well […]
Michael Jackson Searches Trigger Google’s Denial of Service Defenses
June 26th, 2009Via: BBC: The internet suffered a number of slowdowns as people the world over rushed to verify accounts of Michael Jackson’s death. Search giant Google confirmed to the BBC that when the news first broke it feared it was under attack. Millions of people who Googled the star’s name were greeted with an error page […]
Ministry of Defence Blocks Wikileaks
June 25th, 2009Via: Guardian: The Ministry of Defence is trying to block all internet access to the whistleblowing site Wikileaks from thousands of its own computers after discovering that dissidents have been using it to leak copies of British military manuals. Newly obtained MoD emails reveal alarm over the discovery that Wikileaks is freely publishing manuals that […]
Department of Homeland Security: Coal Ash Site Locations Must Not Be Revealed Because of National Security
June 14th, 2009If you’re not familiar with the concept of security through obscurity, this would be a good time to learn about it. Via: New York Times: Senate Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) is calling on U.S. EPA to reveal the confidential locations of dozens of coal ash impoundment sites considered dangerous. Speaking with […]
Connectivity Problem Temporarily Halts Trading on About 240 NYSE Companies
June 12th, 2009Multiple redundant data links and servers… Nothing to see here. Via: Reuters: A loss in server connectivity that caused the New York Stock Exchange to halt trades in about 240 companies has been restored, Ray Pellecchia, spokesman for NYSE Euronext, said on Friday. Pellecchia said the exchange was not planning on canceling trades in the […]
The Ultimate Lock Picker Hacks Pentagon, Beats Corporate Security for Fun and Profit
May 31st, 2009Via: Wired: Between stabs at his salad, Tobias hands me his latest idea of fun: nearly 300 pages of self-published hacker-porn detailing his attack on the allegedly uncrackable Medeco high-security lock. “Trust me, this will cause a goddamned riot!” he says, dabbing at tears of joy with a paper napkin. “Oh yeah, this is way, […]
The Black World Has Black Fiber; Cut It and Black SUVs Show Up Within Minutes
May 31st, 2009You have to read to the end of the article to find out that the incident happened in 2000. Via: Washington Post: This part happens all the time: A construction crew putting up an office building in the heart of Tysons Corner a few years ago hit a fiber optic cable no one knew was […]
The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice and Sustainability by Lierre Keith
May 5th, 2009I’ve listened to a few of Lierre Keith’s radio appearances and talks. This information will be nothing new to those of you who are involved with producing your own food in ways that build top soil. To the rest of you, this will be deep, chilling doom… for your belly. Lierre Keith is absolutely NOT […]
Brazilians, Including Organized Crime Groups, Using Improvised Radio Gear to Communicate Over Old U.S. Navy Satellites
April 23rd, 2009Via: Wired: The problem goes back more than a decade, to the mid-1990s, when Brazilian radio technicians discovered they could jump on the UHF frequencies dedicated to satellites in the Navy’s Fleet Satellite Communication system, or FLTSATCOM. They’ve been at it ever since. Truck drivers love the birds because they provide better range and sound […]
Navies to Guard Undersea Cable from Somali Pirates
April 16th, 2009HAHA. Maybe they can fit an aircraft carrier down the manholes around the Bay Area to protect that fiber. Via: Reuters: Foreign navies have agreed to protect a vessel installing an undersea high-speed Internet cable from pirates off the coast of Somalia, a Kenyan minister said on Thursday. Sea gangs from lawless Somalia have been […]
