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[Dave Aitel <dave () immunityinc com>]

So yesterday, Chile was without power for a bit
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/americas/chile-suffers-3rd-major-blackout-3-days-energy-minister-wants-investments-in-modern-grid/2011/09/26/gIQAGQPqzK_story.html>.
Technically it's their third blackout in three days. Why? Who knows?
Perhaps it's unknowable in some mathematical or philosophical sense. Or
perhaps as the WashPost says: " The reasons remain unclear, but failures
in the transmission grid are suspected."

These aren't "modern" grids apparently, so no doubt instead of running
Windows XP they are running Windows NT 4 + a very old version of
Hydrogen[1].

Likewisetwo trains crashed in Shanghai
<http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j9IXOebl36_4EtcHUCyHHzrZTRyg?docId=9cc2d15e15cb46ff9364fb52eda4978e>
- they'd switched to manual equipment since the high tech signaling
equipment "stopped working".

You know what's complete balderdash? When people say "The US is much
more heavily invested in high tech networking processes, and hence, more
vulnerable to a cyber attack than everyone else." People say this sort
of thing all the time. Not sure why.

And, in completely unrelated news, WhitePhosphorus
<http://www.immunityinc.com/products-whitephosphorus.shtml> released two
SCADA exploits in their CANVAS Exploit Pack update today. They have 114
exploits right now, and "if you don't have it, you don't have it", as
they say. :>

-dave
[1] I jest, of course. Modern Hydrogen works fine on NT4! ;>

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