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A2 • HERMISTONHERALD.COM SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 2015 LOCAL WEATHER Pet of the week Today's Weather Hi, my name is Mikey. I am a male Papillon available for adoption at the Hu- mane Society of Eastern Oregon Pet Res- cue in Hermiston. I was surrendered by my owner, and I need a new home. I’ve already had my shots, and I am good with children and oth- er dogs. I am 1 to 3 years old and can be adopted for $150. I come with a free vet check and a three-day return policy. If I am neutered within 60 days of adoption, my owner will receive a $50 refund. If you are interested in welcoming Mikey to your family, please stop by the humane society at 1844 N.W. Geer Road, Hermiston, or call 541-564-6222. City, Port ‘hammering out’ agreement language was reached at a private meeting Dec. 22. After that meeting, the parties agreed to suspend oral arguments before the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals, which were scheduled for Dec. 23. At the City Council meeting Tuesday, Ward re- iterated that the parties had reached a potential agree- BY SEAN HART ment but that it would not HERMISTON HERALD be unveiled until the docu- Plans to unveil a po- PHQWZDV¿QLVKHG tential agreement to settle “I think that is a very a zoning dispute between exciting agreement in prin- the city of Umatilla and the ciple,” he said. “However, Port of Umatilla were put because of the holidays, on hold Tuesday. we weren’t able to have the At the Port Commission attorneys produce the ac- meeting, General Manager tual settlement documents. Kim Puzey said an agree- We didn’t see those until ment has been reached “in (Tuesday) morning, and principle,” but further de- there are concerns about tails must be addressed. how the agreement sort of “There are items that transposed from the vision have legal, jurisdictional to the legalese, so we have and contractual implica- a bit more work to do on tions which require addi- hammering out the actual WLRQDOUH¿QHPHQW´KHVDLG settlement agreement doc- “These issues are related uments.” WR LQGHPQL¿FDWLRQ SDVW Ward said, when the actions and future implica- agreement is complete, tions. All of this must be it will be introduced at a addressed before we have a council meeting and then document that we can me- scheduled for a public hear- morialize.” ing and adoption at a subse- Puzey said Umatilla quent meeting, so the public City Manager Bob Ward, could review and comment Umatilla City Councilman on the agreement before the Roak TenEyck and media- council takes action. tor Joe Franell contributed “It will most likely be to the progress on the po- within the next 30 days that tential agreement, which we will have those issues Zoning dispute settlement unveiling postponed while document is refined HACKED: continued from page A1 Sipe said during the Uma- tilla School Board meeting Thursday night. “There is a group called Nero, which does all of our se- curity. Every time it would go down, they could go in DQGJHWLW¿[HG´ Sipe said the company originally thought that it would be able to narrow the attack down by locat- ing an IP address of the attacker. When it looked into the matter, however, representatives learned the attack was coming from 2,000 different sites across the world. “So then we knew this was a little bit larger,” she said. This week, however, the attacks spread coun- ty-wide across the gov- ernment network that is utilized by many govern- ment-funded agencies in the region. Sipe said it is utilized by Blue Moun- tain Community College and other neighboring school districts. “Anyone who used this same government agency Internet hub lost (their Internet),” she said. “It grows to a whole new lev- el of concern now.” Sipe said the attack did not penetrate any of the networks, it just blocked their Internet signals by overloading it with in- formation. She said the attackers did not get into any systems, nor were they able to access any data. “The example I gave hammered out and come back to the council,” he said. “It won’t come back to the council until all of the parties, all of the negotiat- ing team have signed off on it, but particularly the attor- neys. That’s where things get hung up is when you get from the regular players to the attorneys.” The dispute originat- ed early in 2014 when the port’s application for a $1.5 million industrial ware- house on land designated as an industrial zone on a city map was denied by the Umatilla Planning Com- mission, which contended the land was planned for residential use and the map designation was changed in error years ago. The port appealed the decision to the City Council, which upheld the Planning Commission’s ruling, and subsequently to LUBA, where it is on hold pending the agreement. Ward said the agreement — which will still need to be approved by the full Port Commission and City Council once the document is complete — would pro- vide “a very positive start to 2015.” “I think it is refreshing that we’re going to start the year with a settlement with that rather than hav- ing to continue the year battling with that issue,” he said. Local 5-Day Forecast Sat Sun 1/12 39/32 40/32 42/30 Bisnett Insurance is proud to announce J OE Y OUNG is now part of the Bisnett Insurance team in Pendleton. Joe has over 10 years of insurance experience and is excited to be back in a position where he can again assist people with their insurance needs. He specializes in farm/ ranch and commercial insurance, and will soon be pursuing his Agribusiness & Farm Insurance Specialist designation. 121 S. Main Street • Pendleton • 541.276.1418 Online at bisnett.com • 800-303-0419 Wed 1/13 1/14 41/29 40/29 Mostly cloudy. High Mostly cloudy. Highs Clouds giving way to 39F. 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It is just sad that someone can be so malicious.” is if a thousand people called 9-1-1 all at once, the system wouldn’t be able to handle it,” she said. “It would shut the entire system down. That is exactly what happened with our Internet ... They are sending all of these devices.” Sipe said the informa- tion technology depart- ment at the IMESD was able to get the signal back Mon 1/10 up in less than 40 min- utes, which was an amaz- ing feat considering all that was required to dis- rupt the signal. “When you consider everything that was going on, it is pretty incredi- ble,” she said. Sipe said it is just frustrating that someone would want to create that kind of a problem for anyone. Sun Mon Tue Wed 1/10 1/11 1/12 1/13 1/14 1 Low 1 Low 1 Low 1 Low 1 Low The UV Index is measured on a 0 - 11 number scale, with a higher UV Index showing the need for greater skin protection. “You are working along and then all of the sudden you are just crip- pled,” she said. “It is pret- ty frustrating. It happened again (Thursday) for about 10 minutes.” Sipe said her son, Ca- den Sipe, read an article in the last few days that talked about how there is an app that people can download, where, for a certain fee per month, people can pick what they want to target and it per- forms denial service at- tacks. “It could be as simple as a randomly selected IP (address) that is one of ours,” she said. Sipe said the district was renaming all of its IP addresses Thursday night so that if it is just a ran- dom attack, then it will 0 11 stop happening. She said the FBI has since gotten involved because the at- tacks are considered a federal crime. “So we are trying to get to the bottom of it,” she said. “It is pretty wild what is out there. It is just sad that someone can be so malicious.” The attacks aren’t only targeting smaller agen- cies and networks, either. During the winter break, Sony and Xbox also found themselves victims of the same type of attack. A hacking group called Lizard Squad took credit for flooding the two companies’ networks with the same type of at- tack that left both systems down Dec. 25 and Dec. 26. The systems are now back up and running. 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