Archive for the 'Infrastructure' Category
Market Emergency
May 6th, 2010Update: NASDAQ to Cancel U.S. Trades That Moved More Than 60% Via: Bloomberg: Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. said it will cancel trades of 286 securities that fell or rose more than 60 percent from their prices at 2:40 p.m. New York time, just before U.S. equities plummeted. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged almost 1,000 […]
A ‘Catastrophic’ Rupture Hits Boston’s Water System; Two Million Ordered to Boil Drinking Water
May 2nd, 2010Via: Boston Globe: About 2 million Greater Boston residents lost their supply of clean drinking water when a huge pipe burst yesterday, prompting authorities to declare a state of emergency and to impose a sweeping order for homeowners and businesses to boil the untreated water now flowing through their pipes. Governor Deval Patrick said residents […]
GOVERNMENT FEARS DEEPWATER HORIZON WELL COULD BECOME UNCHECKED GUSHER
May 2nd, 2010Via: al.com: ‘The following is not public’ document states A confidential government report on the unfolding spill disaster in the Gulf makes clear the Coast Guard now fears the well could become an unchecked gusher shooting millions of gallons of oil per day into the Gulf. “The following is not public,” reads the National Oceanic […]
IEEE: Build Backup Routes for Undersea Communications Infrastructure “Before we have to learn the hard way”
April 21st, 2010Cryptogon Flashback to 2002: Cyberwar: How Terrorists Could Defeat the U.S., and Why They Won’t In the years since I wrote that, I started to think that a massive attack on the physical network infrastructure would make increasing sense to the elite if the financial scams became totally untenable, and the perpetrators needed a distraction […]
Mike McConnell and the American Corporate State
March 30th, 2010I’ve included just a few choice excerpts from this great article. If you only click through on one story today, make this the one. Via: Salon: In a political culture drowning in hidden conflicts of interests, exploitation of political office for profit, and a rapidly eroding wall separating the public and private spheres, Michael McConnell […]
WASHINGTON DC: PUBLIC SAFETY RADIO SYSTEMS ARE DOWN
March 30th, 2010Via: WJLA: Authorities say all Public Safety Radios are down in the District. All DC emergency responders use the system. The police and fire radios went out of service around 7:15 p.m. Fire officials say 911 is not affected. Fire officials say they switched to a back-up system that uses portal radios and borrows channels […]
Cell on Wheels (COW)
March 23rd, 2010Placing the New Zealand Internet Filter Story in Perspective
March 15th, 2010I rarely need to do this, but please stop submitting this story. Dozens of you guys think I have somehow missed this. I didn’t. Why didn’t I post it? First of all, given everything that’s out in the open about what governments are doing on the Internet, is this story even relevant for Cryptogon readers? […]
DoD Requires Hacker Certification
March 5th, 2010I don’t see this as an ominous development, or, put another way, any more ominous than the baseline level of ominous developments. It’s par for the course. As anyone who has ever been responsible for a network will tell you: You’ll either become like the opponent (on the network), or be owned by him. Or […]
Cybersecurity Bill to Give President New Emergency Powers
February 28th, 2010Via: The Hill: The president would have the power to safeguard essential federal and private Web resources under draft Senate cybersecurity legislation. According to an aide familiar with the proposal, the bill includes a mandate for federal agencies to prepare emergency response plans in the event of a massive, nationwide cyberattack. The president would then […]
