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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...

.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.

GNOME BlackOut 0.1

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

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.

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.

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!

Tracking the Blackout bug

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

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 .

Blaster and the great blackout

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

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.

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.

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....

Blackout Cause: Buggy Code

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

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

Software Bug Contributed to Blackout

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

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

Microsoft Money blackout approaching day
four

Microsoft Money blackout approaching day
four 07/29/2004 10:17 PM
A server glitch has shut out a "subset" of Microsoft Money users from accessing their online financial files.

Utilities Still Fumbling a Year After
Blackout

Utilities Still Fumbling a Year After
Blackout 08/15/2004 01:42 PM
Reuters via Wired News Aug 15 2004 4:31PM GMT

2003 Blackout 's Silver Lining

2003 Blackout 's Silver Lining 06/14/2004 03:38 AM
CBS News Jun 14 2004 8:22AM GMT

Blaster worm not responsible for NE
blackout

Blaster worm not responsible for NE
blackout 04/09/2004 04:13 PM
When the Northeast had a massive power outage lasting 16+ hours, there was speculation that it was caused by the Blaster (MSBlast) worm. Fortunately, this was not the case...

Computer trouble affected blackout

Computer trouble affected blackout 11/19/2003 10:28 PM
AP via Seattle Post Intelligencer Nov 19 2003 9:45PM ET

Blackout hits major Web sites

Blackout hits major Web sites 06/15/2004 03:03 PM
Google, Microsoft.com and others go dark after an apparent outage of Akamai's domain name server system. Yahoo Mail still patchy.

Two-Fingered Blackout PowerBook Dropping

Two-Fingered Blackout PowerBook Dropping 03/14/2005 06:09 PM
Glenn Fleishman (~300 words)

I asked Apple to loan me a new PowerBook so I could test first-hand the hardware features they added in the latest refresh a few weeks ago: the scrolling trackpad, the Sudden Motion Sensor for hard drive protection, and increased backlighting for the keyboard. You can read about these features in Apple's marketing materials, but it's nice to test them first hand.

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.

Northeast Blackout Caused By A Software
Bug

Northeast Blackout Caused By A Software
Bug 02/11/2004 11:07 PM
Turns out after all the various speculation on reasons, the big northeast blackout from last summer was the result of a software bug that was only just discovered - and not (as many had speculated) from the Blaster worm that was going around at the time. The bug meant that an alarm that should have been triggered never went off - leading to a series of problems that went unnoticed until it was too late.

Zombie PC army responsible for big name
web blackout

Zombie PC army responsible for big name
web blackout 06/17/2004 05:12 AM
Silicon.com Jun 17 2004 9:05AM GMT

Cardinals impose media blackout

Cardinals impose media blackout 04/09/2005 09:37 AM
Roman Catholic Cardinals decide not to speak to the press until Pope John Paul II's successor is chosen.

Snake Triggers Blackout in Honduras (AP)

Snake Triggers Blackout in Honduras (AP) 05/19/2004 07:24 PM
AP - A boa constrictor triggered a 15-minute nationwide blackout when it slithered into a generator at a major hydroelectric plant, officials said Wednesday.

Blackout Hits Athens Month Before
Olympics (AP)

Blackout Hits Athens Month Before
Olympics (AP) 07/12/2004 08:48 PM
AP - The worst blackout in more than a decade hit Athens and southern Greece on Monday, leaving millions sweltering in a heat wave and raising concerns about whether the lights will go out at next month's Olympics.

Blackout Hits Athens Month Before Games
(AP)

Blackout Hits Athens Month Before Games
(AP) 07/12/2004 02:12 PM
AP - The worst blackout in more than a decade hit Athens and southern Greece on Monday, leaving millions sweltering in a heat wave and raising concerns about whether the lights will go out at next month's Olympics.

Prosecutor orders Greece blackout probe

Prosecutor orders Greece blackout probe 07/13/2004 03:28 PM

Blackout Highlights Business-Continuity
Drivers

Blackout Highlights Business-Continuity
Drivers 04/09/2004 03:58 PM
An investigative report issued by the U.S. and Canadian governments surrounding the worst power failure in U.S. history is shedding light on the importance of business-continuity planning through findings that the electric-system catastrophe could have been prevented.

Analysts: Continuity Lessons From
Blackout, Disasters

Analysts: Continuity Lessons From
Blackout, Disasters 08/13/2004 09:17 PM
Changes in the storage market for lower-cost data replication could be a part of improving business continuity plans. However, analysts say many IT managers and CIOs still don't heed the disaster warnings.

Blackout Fails to Give Power Reform a
Jolt (AP)

Blackout Fails to Give Power Reform a
Jolt (AP) 08/08/2004 07:25 PM
AP - There is growing frustration among many power-industry officials and watchdogs that, one year after the country's biggest blackout, electric reliability rules are still voluntary. They worry that as the memory of that day fades, the momentum to improve the grid will, too.

2003 blackout harbinger of future havoc,
CSIS says

2003 blackout harbinger of future havoc,
CSIS says 04/26/2004 01:05 PM
globetechnology.com Apr 26 2004 5:06PM GMT

"The Blackout of 2003: Solutions to
Protect Mission Critical Data"

"The Blackout of 2003: Solutions to
Protect Mission Critical Data" 08/09/2004 02:15 AM
BLUEBRIDGE NETWORKS, LLC (“BLUEBRIDGE” OR THE “COMPANY”) has published a white paper on the effects of power outages on mission critical data and how this strain had a tremendous effect on the commercial enterprise. [PRWEB Aug 9, 2004]

IT failure leads to air traffic control
blackout & flights disruption

IT failure leads to air traffic control
blackout & flights disruption 06/04/2004 05:45 AM
PublicTechnology.net Jun 4 2004 9:36AM GMT

The news of the Air Force and White
Housedisproving the allegations about
the Bush medal cameFriday, as CBS News
and other news organizations werereeling
from the disclosure that they had
publish

The news of the Air Force and White
Housedisproving the allegations about
the Bush medal cameFriday, as CBS News
and other news organizations werereeling
from the disclosure that they had
publish 09/14/2004 07:17 AM
this led to Air Force responses .. shitty start .. Thus sinks

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New York Daily News - News & Views -
Daily News Exclusive: Valedictorian who
ripped school denied diploma

New York Daily News - News & Views -
Daily News Exclusive: Valedictorian who
ripped school denied diploma 06/27/2004 01:49 AM
New York Daily News - News & Views - Daily News Exclusive: Valedictorian who ripped school denied diploma .. criticized

nydailynews.com/news/story/206403p-178119c.html
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