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I work in IT in south Alabama. There are major network outages being reported by cell carriers, such as AT&T and Verizon. Other carriers are reporting it too. The maps show all of the Eastern seaboard from just south of Maine all the way to the bottom of Florida and the southeast United States plus major parts of California and Nebraska. We don't know exactly what is going on and I am not trying to alarm anyone but this is what I know at this point.

CERT has issued an alert indicating that a major flaw has been found in just about all Cisco routers. This bug will allow someone to make a router hang so that it won't accept any more packets, and cause it to need to be rebooted. The upshot of which is, internet connectivity in many places may be spotty for the next few days as these routers are patched. Worse case senerio is that someone has a variant of one of the many microsoft windows worms that can exploit this bug. This could bring large portions of the net grinding to...