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    411: Cybergeddon
    411: Cybergeddon
    411: Cybergeddon
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    411: Cybergeddon

    By Stephen Austen

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    It is April 11th - "411". A cyber attack is underway that eclipses "911". It targets the most vulnerable aspects of American society. PALADIN's ONYX OPS team must find the master cyber-terrorist, identify his sponsors and deliver justice. A fast-paced, fact-based examination of today's high-tech threats in today's high-tech world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStephen Austen
    Release dateApr 4, 2010
    ISBN9781452316888
    411: Cybergeddon
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    Stephen Austen

    I was born in Lafayette, Louisiana and raised in New Orleans. But I truly grew-up as I travelled or lived in some thirty-four states. A Human Resources Manager, I now reside with my family in North Carolina. My writings and interests are eclectic. My latest series, The Paladin Papers, are fast-paced, fact-based military/techno thrillers. Based on today's events and often set in the near future, they offer thought-provoking entertainment. They will keep you thinking long after you put them down. I am certain you will enjoy reading these stories as much as I did writing them. . .

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      411 - Stephen Austen

      Prologue

      When the infidels dial 911, their ‘Emergency’ phone number, they cannot help but to remember the emergency we precipitated in New York City. Soon, when they dial 411, their ‘Information’ phone number, they will remember this blow in the Information Age.

      Umar Ansal, Iranian Cyber-Terrorist

      (in remarks to the Council of Viziers)

      Pelham, Alabama

      South of Birmingham

      April 11 – Before Daybreak

      Nadar Surtan stepped out of the shower. He'd finished packing except for the laptop and an array of cellular and satellite communications gear spread on his desk by the window. Turning off the room lights he drew back the curtains, looked out, grimacing as he sipped the bitter brew from the in-room coffee maker.

      His fourteenth floor room in the hotel tower at the Galleria, just south of Birmingham, Alabama, enjoyed a commanding view. Though it was dark the street lights and early morning traffic along U.S. Highway 31 South below snaked over the rolling foothills of the Appalachians.

      Sitting down, he completed his attack with a few keystrokes. He rocked back in his chair to enjoy the view.

      Seven miles to the south, a compressor boost station for the Antebellum Pipeline Company was pushing a thirty five thousand-barrel batch of gasoline. Starting from a refinery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, it travelled through a 30-inch pipe to distribution points in Pennsylvania. Moving at six miles per hour, the total trip for the nearly one and a half million-gallon shipment would take about twenty days to complete.

      A string of compressor boost stations, located about every fifty-miles along the journey, maintain the constant flow rate. This continuous flow of product is the key to the success of Antebellum’s pipeline operations. More importantly, it keeps thirsty distributors supplied, their customers warm, mobile and happy.

      This pipeline runs under U.S. Highway 31 and through the town of Pelham, Alabama. Laid in the early years of World War II, it functioned faithfully ever since. Except for an occasional sign or cleared right-of-way, the citizens of that bedroom community scarcely remembered it, until today.

      Surtan's electronic and field reconnaissance of the Antebellum’s Pipeline systems revealed several vulnerabilities ripe for exploitation. His software attack package featured an SQL injection into Antebellum's SCADA system. Launched via the internet from his hotel room, through Antebellum's public website and email system, it silently went to work.

      Programmable logic controllers at nine pumping stations from Alabama through Georgia and into South Carolina were temporarily overwritten with new operating instructions. The PLC’s were instructed to shut off the main pipeline valves at every third pumping station. The machine/man interface software was also overwritten to disable alarm buffers so the graphic displays at Antebellum's Pipeline Operations Center portrayed normal states of operation.

      At the same time, pump houses in-between were misinformed of low flowline pressures. They immediately accelerated their compressors. The gasoline had nowhere to go, battering against the blocked valves.

      Within minutes line pressures in over four hundred miles of pipe approached 2,000 psig, exceeding their design capacity.

      Beneath U.S. Highway 31 in Pelham, the gasoline-filled pipeline was the first to fail.

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