Sys admin admits trying to axe California power grid
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Homer Simpson-style rage attack A sys admin last week pleaded guilty to attempting to disrupt the power grid in California by shutting down a data centre that managed the state's electrical supply.â¦
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Collateral damage A faulty signature update to CA's antivirus software created headaches for sys admins last week after the software falsely identified a Windows 2003 component as malware.â¦
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A former Unix system administrator at Medco Health Solutions attempted to sabotage critical data, including individual prescription drug data, on more than 70 servers.
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By JORDAN ROBERTSON, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  SAN JOSE, Calif.  A computer technician working for the city of Newark was arrested on charges he defrauded technology giant Cisco Systems Inc.
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By Dennis Rockstroh, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun. 23--Q I am in desperate need of advice, and I think I'm being strong-armed.   We had an estimate/proposal with a local air conditioning installer to have a new furnace and air conditioning installed.
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A computer systems administrator was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Tuesday for trying to sabotage his company's servers out of fear he was about to lose his job, prosecutors said.
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By Jake Armstrong, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Sep. 6--TRACY -- An environmental group is suing to reverse the city's approval of the plan that will guide growth and the extension of essential city services over the next two decades.
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California's attorney general is going after one of the mainstays of life in a way that is so confused, so terrifying an abuse of state power, that it begs for redress.
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Companies are giving up control of their electrical systems, and they are being paid to do it. The goal? To better manage the nationâs burdened power grid.
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Wildfires threatened to shut down the last remaining major power transmission link to San Diego, which would make the Californian county an electricity "island", susceptible to major blackouts, the manager of the state power grid said Wednesday.
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Six California counties and cities, including Los Angeles and San Francisco, are suing Microsoft for allegedly overcharging them. The lawsuit seeks to recover some of the
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Some businesses in California will probably be forced to cut electricity use on Thursday because hot weather and high air-conditioning use prompted the state's power grid manager to call a "Stage 2 power emergency."
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A U.S. appeals-court ruling on Friday could open the way for more than $1 billion in refunds to Californians who experienced power outages and soaring energy prices in 2001, state prosecutors said.
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By Brooke Bryant, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Dec. 15--Orinda is urging the East Bay Municipal Utility District to reconsider plans to overhaul its regional water system.
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Sir Philip Watts, the former chairman of Shell, yesterday broke his silence with a blistering attack on the City regulator, which he accused of riding roughshod over his rights and writing a &quot;flawed&quot; report.
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Sanjay Kumar, the former chief executive of Computer Associates of Islandia, NY, pleaded innocent Thursday to charges he helped inflate financial results.
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Democratic rival to California's governor admits aides nabbed a controversial audio file. But his camp calls it fair game.