Tech Issues Cripple Metro Services, MoCo Traffic Lights

NBC Washington (WRC-4 TV) ^ | 11/4/09 | JIM IOVINO

[Karma Police]

I hope the terrorists aren’t watching...what a disgrace. Look how easy it is to bring an entire city to a halt.

[Perdogg]

Die Hard 4?

[John W]

Probing, testing?

[loungitude]

Ctrl-Alt-Del?

[Braak]

Who knows? Could be as simple as some idiot dropped a wrench.

[Perdogg]

merlin ping

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Washington power meltdown ping.

[hsmomx3]

This might sound strange but last night, we had outages with our cell phones. T Mobile had trouble and other people we know who had different cell providers were also experiencing outages/problems.

[Braak]

Weird...very weird.

[Drill Thrawl]

Do they not have battery back ups and generators in their data centers?

[blues_guitarist]

Technology!





It's great when it works . . .

[Clint N. Suhks]

Been on WMAL all morning. Only Rockville and Takoma Park in Monkey County were affected it says. They are north and east.

All is well in The People’s Republic of Bethesda. :o)

[Yorktownpatriot]

Could it be that the White House is attemting to make our
“house call” a lot more difficult to navigate?

[soycd]

Gov run socialist systems are prone to failure.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

Thanks!

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

Is everything back to normal yet?

[Clint N. Suhks]

I don’t know, we don’t use the metro and the lights affected aren’t around us.

Are you going to the Chris Plante party tomorrow?

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

No, I’m not. I’m heading to Puerto Rico tomorrow until Sunday. It seems that they schedule these things when I’m going out-of-town or something.

The event is in Bethesda... are you going?

[LurkedLongEnough]

Wiki: "There are two distinct threats to a modern SCADA system. First is the threat of unauthorized access to the control software, whether it be human access or changes induced intentionally or accidentally by virus infections and other software threats residing on the control host machine. Second is the threat of packet access to the network segments hosting SCADA devices.

In many cases, there is rudimentary or no security on the actual packet control protocol, so anyone who can send packets to the SCADA device can control it.

In many cases SCADA users assume that a VPN is sufficient protection and are unaware that physical access to SCADA-related network jacks and switches provides the ability to totally bypass all security on the control software and fully control those SCADA networks.

These kinds of physical access attacks bypass firewall and VPN security and are best addressed by endpoint-to-endpoint authentication and authorization such as are commonly provided in the non-SCADA world by in-device SSL or other cryptographic techniques."