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| Critical Infrastructure Incidents |
| 2008.11.07 |
Equipment failure sends raw sewage into Hempstead Bay |
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An equipment failure early yesterday at Nassau County's Cedar Creek sewage treatment plant in Wantagh released 51,000 gallons of raw sewage, some of which spilled into East Hempstead Bay, where long-closed shellfish beds had been reopened recently. |
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| 2008.10.28 |
Driver hits NIPSCO pole; surge disables sewage treatment plant |
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When a motorist, at approximately 12:11 a.m. on Sunday, struck a NIPSCO pole on Woodlawn Ave. just west of North Eighth Street, he not only interrupted electric service to the Chesterton wastewater treatment plant, he caused a power surge which zapped into oblivion the whole of the plant’s automated computer system. |
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| 2008.08.26 |
FAA computer glitch causes nationwide flight delays |
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ATLANTA — The Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday that a communication failure at a Georgia facility that processes flight plans for the eastern half of the U.S. was causing flight delays around the country. |
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| 2008.08.20 |
FEMA phones hacked; calls made to Mideast, Asia |
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WASHINGTON - A hacker broke into a Homeland Security Department telephone system over the weekend and racked up about $12,000 in calls to the Middle East and Asia. |
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| 2008.08.07 |
Hacker illegally activates Brunswick emergency sirens |
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Brunswick -- A hacker armed with radio codes set off emergency sirens in Brunswick early Wednesday. If
the blasts didn't wake the city's 35,000 residents, follow-up phone calls to residences probably did the trick. |
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| 2008.06.26 |
Computer stops city, and that's the fifth time |
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A COMPUTER failure in the M5 East tunnel yesterday left tens of thousands of motorists trapped in a traffic snarl that locked up Sydney - the fifth time such a malfunction has shut the vital artery. |
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| 2008.06.05 |
Cyber Incident Blamed for Nuclear Power Plant Shutdown |
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A nuclear power plant in Georgia was recently forced into an emergency shutdown for 48 hours after a software update was installed on a single computer. |
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| 2008.03.24 |
Exelon Pa. Limerick 1 reactor shut |
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NEW YORK, March 24 (Reuters) - Exelon Corp's (EXC.N: Quote, Profile, Research) 1,134-megawatt Unit 1 at the Limerick nuclear power station in Pennsylvania shut from full power on March 22, the company said in a release. |
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| 2008.02.26 |
Massive power outage hits Florida |
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MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- A "significant equipment failure" at a substation west of Miami triggered Tuesday afternoon's blackouts around southern Florida, a Florida Power & Light official said. |
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| 2008.01.19 |
CIA: Hackers to Blame for Power Outages |
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Hackers literally turned out the lights in multiple cities after breaking into electrical utilities and demanding extortion payments before disrupting the power, a senior CIA analyst told utility engineers at a trade conference. |
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| 2008.01.11 |
Schoolboy hacks into city's tram system |
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A teenage boy who hacked into a Polish tram system used it like "a giant train set", causing chaos and derailing four vehicles. |
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| 2007.12.07 |
Hackers launch major attack on U.S. military labs |
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Sophisticated cyber attacks break into computer systems at the U.S. military's Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico |
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| 2007.12.07 |
Cyber hackers infiltrate ORNL (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) |
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OAK RIDGE - Oak Ridge National Laboratory was the target of a "sophisticated cyber attack" that potentially gave hackers access to the personal information of thousands of visitors to the lab from 1990 to 2004, the laboratory confirmed Thursday. |
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| 2007.11.29 |
Enbridge eyes quick restart after pipe blast |
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CALGARY (Reuters) - Enbridge Inc (ENB.TO) on Thursday said it expects to quickly restart its huge pipeline system, the day after a deadly blast in Minnesota killed two workers and briefly choked off 10 percent of oil imports to the world's top consumer. |
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| 2007.11.02 |
Arizona Nuclear Power Plant Off Lockdown After Security Alert |
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WINTERSBURG, Ariz. - Security officials at the nation's largest nuclear power plant detained a contract worker with a small, crude explosive device in the back of his pickup truck Friday, and investigators were searching his apartment, authorities said. |
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| 2007.09.25 |
Radar fails in Memphis; hundreds of flights affected |
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The malfunction, which occurred inside a telephone company's switching office, made it impossible for air controllers at FAA's Memphis Center to communicate normally with adjoining centers to hand off control of flights, Bergen said. |
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| 2007.09.24 |
Investigators: Homeland Security computers hacked |
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Hackers compromised dozens of Department of Homeland Security computers, moving sensitive information to Chinese-language Web sites, congressional investigators said Monday. |
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| 2007.09.06 |
Chinese hackers cyber-attacking British government networks |
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Chinese computer hackers are infiltrating British government networks, giving them access to secret information, according to media reports on Thursday. |
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| 2007.09.04 |
China Denies Accusations Its Military Hacked Into Pentagon Computer System |
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BEIJING - China on Tuesday denied a report that its military had hacked into Pentagon computers, saying the allegations were "groundless" and that Beijing was opposed to cybercrime. |
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| 2007.08.12 |
Computer glitch holds up 20,000 at LAX |
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More than 20,000 international passengers were stranded for hours at Los Angeles International Airport on Saturday, waiting on airplanes and in packed customs halls while a malfunctioning computer system prevented U.S. officials from processing the travelers' entry into the country. |
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| 2007.07.26 |
Chemical Industry Phishing Alert |
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A number of chemical industry companies have recently reported that they are receiving calls from a group claiming to represent the American Institute of Engineers (AIChE) or the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) asking them to participate in a Survey about Process Safety. |
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| 2007.07.20 |
Virgin America Ticket Sales Thwarted by Cyber
Attack |
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Virgin America, a new low-cost carrier scheduled to start service in Washington in the coming months, struggled to sell its first tickets yesterday after its Web site was shut down or slowed to a crawl for most of the afternoon by a cyber attack, a company spokesman said. |
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| 2007.06.22 |
Hack Attack Forces Pentagon To Take Computers Offline |
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The U.S. Department of Defense was hit by a security breach Wednesday that forced the military agency to take an estimated 1,500 computers offline. |
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| 2007.05.31 |
Mass. power plant inadvertently sends alerts to Hudson Valley |
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A Massachusetts nuclear plant's efforts to improve its warning system startled Hudson Valley emergency officials when a computeraccidentally faxed blank radiological advisories to the four counties around Indian Point. |
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| 2007.05.19 |
Overflowing Wis. water tower blamed on computer glitch |
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You might say the computerized controls were all wet when they kept filling a city water tower until it turned into a virtual gusher. |
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| 2007.05.18 |
"Data storm" blamed for nuclear-plant shutdown |
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The U.S. House of Representative's Committee on Homeland Security called this week for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to further investigate the cause of excessive network traffic that shut down an Alabama nuclear plant. |
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| 2007.05.17 |
Estonia suspects Kremlin in Web attacks |
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Estonia's defense minister said Thursday there was a possibility the Russian government was involved in massive cyber attacks that have crippled the Baltic nation's Web sites this month. |
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| 2007.05.03 |
Operator error led to Spencer water
contamination (Massachusetts) |
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WORCESTER - State officials said workers and a faulty alarm system are to blame for an excess of
lye that was released into Spencer's public water supply last week, leading about 100 people to seek
medical treatment. |
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| 2007.04.26 |
Nationwide Blackout - Colombia |
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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Colombia's electrical grid collapsed Thursday, causing a nationwide blackout that briefly halted stock trading, trapped people in elevators and left authorities struggling to determine the cause. |
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| 2007.04.19 |
Man held in power outage at ISO office |
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A 32-year-old man was arrested Wednesday in connection with an internal power outage at the
California Independent System Operator's offices in Folsom late Sunday, according to authorities. |
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| 2007.03.23 |
Hole Found in Protocol Handling Vital National Infrastructure |
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Researchers on March 21 announced that the systems which control dams, oil refineries, railroads and
nuclear power plants have a vulnerability that could be used to cause a denial of service or a system takeover. |
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| 2006.10.30 |
Hackers Penetrate Water System Computers |
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A foreign hacker who penetrated security at a water filtering plant near Harrisburg, Pa., is under investigation by the FBI for planting malicious software capable of affecting the plant's water treatment operations, ABC
News has learned. |
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| 2006.08.21 |
Two accused of hacking into L.A.'s traffic light system |
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Officials allege that two engineers figured out how to hack in...With a few clicks on a laptop computer, the pair - one a renowned traffic engineer profiled in the national media, the other a computer whiz who helped build the system - allegedly tied up traffic at four intersections for several days. |
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| 2006.08.19 |
Browns Ferry 3 nuclear power site scrammed |
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This is another example of a system environment in which components that
were supposedly not safety related could compromise safety. The case is of considerable interest to RISKS. |
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| 2006.05.26 |
Amtrak Power Failure |
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Passengers along Amtrak's primary rail link from New York City to Washington are stranded for hours without lights or air-conditioning because of cascading electrical power failure... |
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| 2005.09.12 |
Worker error kills power to half of L.A. |
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About 700,000 electric customers in Los Angeles lost power Monday afternoon after a worker mistakenly cut a wrong line, triggering a cascade of problems in the city's power grid, a spokesman
for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power said. |
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| 2005.08.18 |
Zotob, PnP Worms Slam 13 DaimlerChrysler Plants |
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A round of Internet worm infections knocked 13 of DaimlerChrysler's U.S. auto manufacturing plants
offline for almost an hour this week, stranding some 50,000 auto workers |
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| 2005.06.29 |
Hackers unleash industrial spy Trojan |
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IT security experts have detected a malware-based hack attack that attempts to gain
unauthorised access to the networks of specifically targeted domains. |
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| 2005.03.11 |
Hackers Target U.S. Power Grid |
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Hundreds of times a day, hackers try to slip past cyber-security into the computer network of Constellation Energy Group Inc., a Baltimore power company with customers around the country. |
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| 2004.09.15 |
Radio outage led to close calls for aircraft |
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LOS ANGELES - A three-hour air traffic control outage that grounded
hundreds of flights across the West on Tuesday also led to five close
calls... |
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| 2004.05.10 |
Sasser worm exposes patching failures |
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Organizations that evaded last week's Sasser worm infestation credited vigilant patching processes and preventative measures such as installing server-based behavior-blocking software and worm filtering gateways. |
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| 2004.05.04 |
Sasser worm spreading quickly |
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Computer security experts are dealing with at least four variants of a worm that is spreading quickly through Windows operating systems. |
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| 2004.04.12 |
Power Out At Vegas' Bellagio |
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LAS VEGAS, Calif. - One of the biggest hotel-casinos on the Las Vegas Strip closed Monday after a main
power line failed, forcing the property to relocate thousands of guests. |
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| 2003.09.28 |
Italy recovering from big blackout |
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ROME, Italy - Italy is recovering from a nationwide power blackout which hit virtually the whole
population in the dead of night, unleashing chaos, stalling lifts and stranding travelers. |
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| 2003.08.21 |
Virus Disrupts Train Signals |
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A computer virus was blamed for bringing down train signaling systems throughout the East... |
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| 2003.08.19 |
Slammer worm crashed Ohio nuke plant network |
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The Slammer worm penetrated a private computer network at Ohio's Davis-Besse nuclear power plant in January and disabled a safety monitoring system for nearly five hours, despite a belief by plant personnel that the network was protected by a firewall, SecurityFocus has learned. |
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| 2003.08.14 |
Major power outage hits New York, other large cities |
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NEW YORK - Power began to flicker on late Thursday evening, hours after a major power outage
struck simultaneously across dozens of cities in the eastern United States and Canada. |
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| 2002.06.27 |
Cyber-Attacks by Al Qaeda Feared |
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Late last fall, Detective Chris Hsiung of the Mountain View, Calif., police department began investigating a suspicious pattern of surveillance against Silicon Valley computers. From the Middle East and South Asia, unknown browsers were exploring the digital systems used to manage Bay Area utilities and government offices. Hsiung, a
specialist in high-technology crime, alerted the FBI's San Francisco computer intrusion squad. |
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| 2001.10.31 |
Hacker jailed for revenge sewage attacks |
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An Australian man was today sent to prison for two years after he was found guilty of hacking into the Maroochy Shire, Queensland computerised waste management system and caused millions of litres of raw sewage to spill out into local parks, rivers and even the grounds of a Hyatt Regency hotel. |
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| 2001.09.20 |
Questions cloud cyber crime cases |
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Aaron Caffrey, 19, was accused of crashing systems at the port of Houston in Texas by hacking into its
computer systems. |
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| 2001.06.13 |
Hack raises fears of unsafe energy networks |
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A recent attack on the heart of California's power distribution center underscores the danger of connecting critical resources to networks that may never be truly secure from malicious hackers. |
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| 2000.04.27 |
Russia welcomes hack attacks |
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Malicious hack attacks are on the rise in Russia, up by a factor of twelve from last year, the Interfax
news service reports. Most spectacularly, Russian authorities revealed this week that Gazprom, a state-run gas utility, came under the control of malicious hackers last year. |
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| 1999.05.16 |
Chinese hackers raid U.S. computers |
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Chinese hackers have attacked U.S. government information systems, including the White House network, in response to the errant bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia, according to an FBI report. |
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| 1999.04.05 |
Serb supporters sock it to NATO and U.S.
computers |
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BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - Today's news is filled with images of downed planes, captured soldiers, and refugees in Kosovo. But there is another war being waged, one that pits pro- Serbian hackers against U.S. and NATO computers. |
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| 1999.03.18 |
Juvenile Computer Hacker Cuts Off FAA Tower at Regional Airport |
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BOSTON, MA - Federal criminal charges were unsealed today against a computer hacker who disabled a key telephone company computer servicing the Worcester airport. As a result of a series of commands sent from the hacker's personal computer, vital services to the FAA control tower were disabled for six hours in March of 1997. In the course of his hacking, the defendant also electronically broke into a pharmacy computer and copied patient records. |
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| 1982.06.XX |
CIA slipped bugs to Soviets |
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In January 1982, President Ronald Reagan approved a CIA plan to sabotage the economy of
the Soviet Union through covert transfers of technology that contained hidden malfunctions, including software that later triggered a huge explosion in a Siberian natural gas pipeline, according to a new memoir by a Reagan White House official. |
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