Methinks as with the problem of data breaches (sharing of incident/log/flow data), we would not share half of the stories whereupon the comms/systems ground to a halt I will however give you one example whereby I, ‘erm, got a netmask incorrect during internal vul scanning and DOS’d the internets/extranet connections in an org via default route to fw’s as a catch all. /8 with many threads hitting many subnets… killed my own scanner C&C also, nooooooooooooooo! I think DD might be across this one

Aside: In 3rd world countries, data centers experience rolling brownouts, their DR/redundancy/power is tested sometimes up to 10+ times a day.

In Japan one telco built their data center underground yet still above a nuclear power plant whereupon they would flip the circuits/backup power in real time during tours of the facility! Nice.

I’m a little bit troubled by certain encumbent Telco’s power infrastructure/redundancy/BCP and how untested, weak and tightly coupled + over-extended it is. Starting to actually think AU needs “blackops” to poke/probe demonstrate not just CTF/war games! Would we be safer in the long run? Kinda like the issue of scoping pen tests… To DOS and/or demonstrate pwnage, or just pretend…. sometimes the lights need to go off and unfortunately the needs of the many may outweigh the needs of the few to make a point! Am well aware of legality/process/practice/humanity issues here, however I think I may need to revive/re-purpose http://www.ipwarfare.com/ Muhuhuhahahahahahah!