Lights Out

Lights Out
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2000-05-26

A year in the making, NIPC's Michael Vatis unveils a plan to monitor cyber attacks on the power grid. Is it enough to prevent a blackout?

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Spike and Action items 2000-05-26
Tony Alagna <Tony (at) wholesecurity (dot) com [email concealed]> (1 replies)

1. I have a urban computer legend to ask everyone...

I've long heard rumors, that a program called "Spike", supposedly the "real spike", exists as a tool that has a permanent link to the National Power Grid, and can up the volts/watts at a specified location. The tool was allegedly built by Gene...

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Spike and Action items 2000-05-29
Anonymous (1 replies)

From the sound of it, Spike sounds like a variation of the Urine box and or Blotto box files that were in heavy circulation in the mid to late 80s, many of them started out as a joke (eg, the blotto box was a cleverly hyped but none-the-less wholly fictional device that could supposedly kill a phone...

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Spike and Action items 2000-05-30
Anonymous (1 replies)

I have to disagree that the electric grid is safe from an internet attack...

At least it should be... and would be.... if systems were properly designed

and structured so that there is no link or path between the www and

internal process control systems...

But... we have seen how stupid syste...

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Spike and Action items 2000-05-30
<nanomancer (at) rinkworks (dot) com [email concealed]>

Well, a completely integrated system is the most efficient. It allows control on the road for electricians to diagnose problems offsite. It's neccesary.

Power grid problems pose a unique threat since people's lives can depend on machinery to operate.

"Throughout history, humans have depended o...

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lights out 2000-05-30
Anonymous

You mean that there is finally a way to beat the boss into work!...

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