OT: Here we go again ...

[Matthew Carpenter]

Blaster Worm Linked to Severity of Blackout
http://www.computerworld.com/databasetopics/data/story/0,10801,84519,00.html

"On the day of the blackout, Blaster degraded the performance of several communications lines linking key data centers used by utility companies to manage the power grid"
 Which in geek-speak is:  "Our network was so f#$%ed over by Blaster that the machines, like, couldn't do the protocol"



On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 22:54:27 -0400
Matthew Carpenter <matt at eisgr.com> wrote:

> They haven't drawn the conclusion that the initial outage was caused by it, but there are reports (computerworld I believe) that MSBlast was responsible for clogging the network pipe between power stations used to avoid the cascading effect.  The cascade-avoidance system simply couldn't do it's job...
> 
> I agree that it probably STARTED there as well... 
> 
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 06:10:28 -0400
> dep <dep at linuxandmain.com> wrote:
> 
> > quoth Michael Hipp:
> > | http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030916/D7TJP93G0.html
> > |
> > | By TED BRIDIS
> > |
> > | WASHINGTON (AP) - Security researchers on Tuesday detected hackers
> > | distributing software to break into computers using flaws announced
> > | last week in some versions of Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s Windows
> > | operating system.
> > 
> > i still highly suspect that the august 14 blackout here (and in much of 
> > the country east of the mississippi and north of the south) is due to 
> > somebody cracking a windows box someplace.
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