United Airlines is Down (!) due to network connectivity problems
Mel Beckman
mel at beckman.org
Wed Jul 8 17:15:20 UTC 2015
It's important to not form an opinion too early, especially anyone involved with forensic analysis of these systems. This is a classic fault in amateur investigation: an early opinion will lead you into confirmation bias, irrationally accepting data agreeing with your opinions and rejecting that disproving it.
-mel beckman
> On Jul 8, 2015, at 10:07 AM, Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster at mykolab.com> wrote:
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> NYSE: "The issue we are experiencing is an internal technical issue
> and is not the result of a cyber breach."
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> https://twitter.com/NYSE/status/618818929906085888
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> United Air statement CNBC: “An issue with a router degraded network
> connectivity for various applications. We fixed the router."
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> https://twitter.com/barronstechblog/status/618816643821633536
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> - - ferg
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>> On 7/8/2015 9:36 AM, Paul Ferguson wrote:
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>> All completely coincidental networking issues, not related to
>> anything malicious.
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>> - ferg
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>>> On 7/8/2015 9:26 AM, Matthew Huff wrote:
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>>> Hmmm,
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>>> Wall Street Journal and NYSE both down….
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>>> WSJ has a static page up…
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>>> DDOS ???
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>>>> On Jul 8, 2015, at 10:51 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore
>>>> <patrick at ianai.net> wrote:
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>>>> Lifted as of 0920 EDT.
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>>>> <http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/07/08/united-airlines-flights-in-us-
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