United Airlines is Down (!) due to network connectivity problems

Wed Jul 8 18:56:27 UTC 2015

UA, WSJ /and/ NYSE all in the same day?

Once is an accident;  twice is a coincidence...

Three times is enemy action.

On July 8, 2015 1:18:47 PM EDT, Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster at mykolab.com> wrote:
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>Given that the Internet is held together with paper clips, bailing
>twine, and bubblegum, I'd prefer to take theses organizations' initial
>word for the fact that there is nothing obviously malicious in these
>outages.
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>The mainstream press, on the other hand, seems to want it to be a hack
>or data breach or... something other than a "glitch". :-)
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>- - ferg
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>On 7/8/2015 10:15 AM, Mel Beckman wrote:
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>> 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
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>>> 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."
>> 
>> 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."
>> 
>> https://twitter.com/barronstechblog/status/618816643821633536
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>> - ferg
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