Northeast Blackout Caused By A Software Bug

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Software Bug Contributed to Blackout

Software Bug Contributed to Blackout 02/12/2004 12:54 PM

Software bug contributed to 2003
blackout

Software bug contributed to 2003
blackout 02/13/2004 12:46 AM
A flaw in General Electric's management system contributed to last August 14th's blackout.

SecurityFocus HOME News: Software Bug
Contributed to Blackout

SecurityFocus HOME News: Software Bug
Contributed to Blackout 02/13/2004 12:48 AM
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/8016 I KNEW IT!!!!!!!!!: A previously-unknown software flaw in a widely-deployed General Electric energy management system contributed to the devastating scope of the August 14th northeastern U.S. blackout, industry officials revealed this week. The bug in GE Energy's XA/21 system was discovered in an intensive code audit conducted by GE and a contractor in the weeks following the blackout, according to FirstEnergy Corp., the Ohio utility...

Northeast Intelligence Network

Northeast Intelligence Network 01/23/2004 02:22 PM
claims terrorists organizations are responsible .. Northeast Intelligence Network .. rumors of Bin Laden's capture .. It's just a rumor .. suspect source .. whoa

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"Northeast Intelligence Network"

"Northeast Intelligence Network" 01/24/2004 05:15 AM

Northeast Data Vault Upgrades

Northeast Data Vault Upgrades 09/17/2004 02:18 PM
theWHIR Sep 17 2004 6:37PM GMT

Hundreds Flee Flooding in Northeast (AP)

Hundreds Flee Flooding in Northeast (AP) 07/13/2004 10:17 AM
AP - A foot or more of rain fell in parts of the Northeast, forcing hundreds from their homes, rupturing small dams and slowing Amtrak trains to a walk. No injuries had been reported in the stricken areas of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland.

Northeast Digs Out from Relentless
Snowstorm

Northeast Digs Out from Relentless
Snowstorm 12/07/2003 07:38 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 7 2003 6:33PM ET

Northeast Flooding Forces Many From
Homes (AP)

Northeast Flooding Forces Many From
Homes (AP) 04/04/2005 06:31 PM
AP - Flooding from a weekend of drenching rain forced thousands of people from their homes in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania and closed the New Jersey Statehouse on Monday.

Verizon Offering 'Naked' DSL in
Northeast (AP)

Verizon Offering 'Naked' DSL in
Northeast (AP) 04/18/2005 02:45 PM
AP - Verizon Communications said Monday that some customers who already subscribe to its phone and high-speed Internet service can drop their local calling plans but still keep their speedy Web connection.

First Winter Storm Rolls Across
Northeast U.S

First Winter Storm Rolls Across
Northeast U.S 12/06/2003 10:13 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 6 2003 9:37PM ET

Amtrak to offer Wi-Fi in six Northeast
stations

Amtrak to offer Wi-Fi in six Northeast
stations 02/10/2004 02:43 AM
Amtrak and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. have inked a deal to put wireless Internet access in six of the railroad's stations along the Northeast Corridor. "Amtrak is excited to be able to offer our customers another way to meld their busy schedules and the work they need to get done," Sally Bellet, Amtrak vice president of real estate development, said in a statement. "Our arrangement with a proven wireless carrier such as AT&T Wireless is just the thing to help keep Amtrak travelers and station visitors connected to their e-mail and the Internet."

Car bomb northeast of Baghdad kills 13

Car bomb northeast of Baghdad kills 13 07/06/2004 03:28 PM

Northeast Cold Blamed for Three Deaths
(AP)

Northeast Cold Blamed for Three Deaths
(AP) 01/11/2004 10:27 PM
AP - The bitter cold that gripped the Northeast through the weekend and iced over roads was blamed for at least three deaths, including that of a Philadelphia man found inside a home without heat.

First Winter Storm of Season Socks
Northeast

First Winter Storm of Season Socks
Northeast 12/06/2003 05:40 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 6 2003 3:30PM ET

6 Dead in Two Northeast Ohio House Fires

6 Dead in Two Northeast Ohio House Fires 01/01/2004 08:41 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 1 2004 6:35PM ET

Kerry courts young voters in Northeast

Kerry courts young voters in Northeast 04/12/2004 10:05 AM

First Winter Storm of Season Socks
Northeast U.S

First Winter Storm of Season Socks
Northeast U.S 12/06/2003 07:57 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 6 2003 6:40PM ET

.ca Blackout

.ca Blackout 06/13/2004 12:41 AM

CIRA's on a witch hunt, and the first casualties are the wave of multiple suspended .ca domains dropping off the internet this weekend.

Extreme Cold, Wind Chills Blast
Northeast (AP)

Extreme Cold, Wind Chills Blast
Northeast (AP) 01/10/2004 07:20 AM
AP - Extreme cold gripped the Northeast with wind chill readings well below zero, forcing even the hardiest New Englanders to think twice before venturing outside. In New York, the wind chill reached minus 26 degrees in one city.

Winter Storm Socks Northeast US,
Disrupts Travel

Winter Storm Socks Northeast US,
Disrupts Travel 12/06/2003 10:13 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 6 2003 9:37PM ET

Northeast Asia's 1st Biochip Center
Opens in Korea

Northeast Asia's 1st Biochip Center
Opens in Korea 10/31/2003 11:41 AM
Hankooki Oct 31 2003 11:14AM ET

Computer Hacking May Signal Cyber War in
Northeast Asia

Computer Hacking May Signal Cyber War in
Northeast Asia 07/14/2004 10:35 PM
Yonhap News Jul 15 2004 2:50AM GMT

Blackout ultimatum

Blackout ultimatum 08/27/2004 01:48 PM
GNU-Darwin wishes to reiterate our solidarity with the anti-war demonstrators, and warn the powers that we will go black with an extended list of demands if the NYC demonstrators are ill-treated, harmed, or molested in any substantial way. We will also join the boycott plans against Disney, etc, and we will lend the communicative power of our Distribution to that effort.

The Ben Barnes blackout

The Ben Barnes blackout 08/30/2004 03:46 PM
Even with new video of the Texas pol saying he's "ashamed" of helping President Bush get his National Guard slot, the story gets little play from the media.

GNOME BlackOut 0.1

GNOME BlackOut 0.1 05/18/2004 05:59 AM
A clone of the Tiger Toys game, Lights Out!

Tracking the Blackout bug

Tracking the Blackout bug 04/09/2004 04:07 PM

anti-war blackout

anti-war blackout 03/13/2003 10:23 AM
In the event that war breaks out with Iraq, GNU-Darwin will observe the anti-war moratorium by replacing our home page with the following message; Stop the war now!

Other News: The Blackout Bug

Other News: The Blackout Bug 02/18/2004 10:41 AM
Who could have guessed - a software bug played a part in the massive U.S. blackout last year?

IT Role Cited in Blackout

IT Role Cited in Blackout 04/19/2004 12:32 PM
The worst electric power failure in U.S. history could have been avoided in part through better business continuity planning and IT management.

Blackout Cause: Buggy Code

Blackout Cause: Buggy Code 02/12/2004 10:11 AM

Rat sparks NZ telecoms blackout

Rat sparks NZ telecoms blackout 06/22/2005 02:40 AM
A rat is being partly blamed for a major communications crash which has caused chaos in New Zealand.

Blaster and the great blackout

Blaster and the great blackout 12/16/2003 12:51 AM
Salon Dec 16 2003 0:02AM ET

BarlowSpams Sucked Into Blackout...

BarlowSpams Sucked Into Blackout... 01/07/2004 02:14 PM
Interesting problem. Shortly before posting the preceding two entries here last night, I dispatched them to my mailing list. But, at almost exactly the same time, the Mission District power substation in San Francisco caught on fire and shut down power to much of Babylon, particularly including the network operations center, only two blocks away from the substation, wherein sits the server that processes the BarlowFriendz list-serve. So. My spams never spammed forth. Whether they even exist any place besides my hard disk is difficult to determine, since, despite the installation of a 90 kw generator at the NOC this afternoon, things remain pretty whacked down there. My dilemma is trying to decide whether to resend them. If they were randomized into non-existence when the power blanked, then I will send them again, since they announce the existence of this blog to many folks who are unlikely to happen upon it. On the other hand, the server may stagger back into operation this evening, find them mouldering in its gullet, and spit them out. Which means that everyone would get them twice. Worst case, I try to resend, and the list-serve will gag even harder on the resend, further delaying its rehabilation. Meanwhile, I'm sitting in here in Salt Lake City, where a lovely snow is sifting down, and I'm at the mercy of machines a thousand miles away. I can't touch them in any useful way. This is, of course, my usual condition in many regards, but one forgets how far-flung are his dependencies. Strangers are trying to fix the problem for me. We forget how many strangers assist us every day....

GNU-Darwin: blackout anniversary

GNU-Darwin: blackout anniversary 04/09/2004 04:10 PM
On this day last year we announced our intent to blackout in protest of US aggression in Iraq. All of the major points of our argument have been vindicated, while the Bush administration has spent the past year back-pedaling, whitewashing, and covering up the many lies that they have told. If you are interested in revisiting the rationale for the GNU-Darwin anti-war blackout, it was formalized and generalized in a short essay the following April .

Did Blaster cause the August blackout?

Did Blaster cause the August blackout? 12/10/2003 10:18 PM
Bruce Schneier (author of Beyond Fear) speculates that the great August blackout on the East Coast may have been caused by the Blaster worm.

Although the worm didn't have to perform any malicious actions on the computers it infected, its mere existence drained resources and often caused the host computer to crash. To remove the worm, a system administrator had to run a program that erased the malicious code; then, the administrator had to patch the vulnerability so that the computer would not get reinfected.

The coincidence is too obvious to ignore. At 2:14 p.m. EDT, the MSBlast worm was dropping systems all across North America. The report doesn't explain why so many computers--both primary and backup systems--at FirstEnergy were failing at around the same time. But MSBlast is certainly a reasonable suspect.

Lin k

How to beat the blackout blues

How to beat the blackout blues 12/21/2003 01:23 AM
US News Dec 21 2003 0:01AM ET

Net caused layoffs, CN says

Net caused layoffs, CN says 05/07/2004 11:29 PM
globetechnology.com May 8 2004 3:42AM GMT

Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill
Watterson. Last seen in northeast Ohio.
Do not approach

Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill
Watterson. Last seen in northeast Ohio.
Do not approach 12/02/2003 01:53 AM
A recent story in the Cleveland Scene .. these days .. articles .. PROFILE

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