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Richard Earl Norton Jr., of Fresno, California, pled guilty to interstate transportation of stolen property relating to his sales over the Internet of more than $900,000 worth of goods and merchandise that he stole from a Macy's department store where he was employed.
Mahmoud Alyaee, secretary-general of Iran's industrial computer servers, including its nuclear facilities control systems, confirmed Saturday, Sept. 25, that 30,000 computers belonging to classified industrial units had been infected and disabled by the malicious Stuxnet virus.
This followed debkafile's exclusive report of Thursday, Sept. 23, from its Washington and defense sources that a clandestine cyber war is being fought against Iran by the United States with elite cyber war units established by Israel.
The debate over a missile, warplane or special forces strike against Iran's nuclear facilities is made redundant by an outside power proving able to partly cripple Iran's nuclear facilities by activating at will a malworm latent inside their control systems.��In it next issue out Friday, DEBKA-Net-Weekly offers first details on the scale of the physical damage suffered by Iran so far from the Stuxnet worm's expanding invasion and evaluates its potential steep decline in regional power stakes, along with its allies.
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Christopher Shane Montgomery, of Bastrop, Louisiana, was indicted for conspiring to commit a hate crime, tampering with a witness, and lying to federal authorities. Montgomery allegedly tied a noose around the neck of a dead raccoon and hung it from a flagpole at a school in order to intimidate African-American students attending the school under a court-ordered busing policy.
Former New Jersey state senator Wayne R. Bryant and attorney Eric D. Wisler were indicted on multiple counts of fraud and bribery.
Shane Allen Werlein, of Stillwater, Minnesota, pled guilty in connection with taking illicit photographs of a girl with his cell phone. Werlein also admitted to having sexual contact with two girls and using his cell phone to take photos of one of them.
A former District of Columbia government employee, Mable Dinkins, was sentenced to two years of probation and ordered to perform 100 hours of community service for receiving an illegal supplementation of salary.
Venezuelan citizen Edwin Andres Pena, the first individual ever charged with hacking into the networks of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers and reselling hacked VoIP services for a profit, was sentenced in Newark, New Jersey to 10 years in prison. Pena transmitted over 10 million minutes of unauthorized telephone calls over the victims' networks.
Marine Corps Pvt. Bernard D. Lueken gave up a promising football career to enlist in the Marine Corps as a tribute to his departed mother.
The FBI now wants to require all encrypted communications systems to have backdoors for surveillance, according to a New York Times report, and to the nation�s top crypto experts it sounds like a battle they�ve fought before.
Back in the 1990s, in what�s remembered as the crypto wars, the FBI and NSA argued that national security [...]
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today announced the beginning of Cyber Storm III�a three-day long, DHS-sponsored exercise that brings together a diverse cross-section of the nation�s cyber incident responders to assess U.S. cyber response capabilities. �Securing America�s cyber infrastructure requires close coordination with our federal, state, international and private sector partners,� said [...]This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and information.
Cyber Storm III Drill To Assess Nation�s Cyber Incident Response Capabilities
El Al foiled an attempt to fly land mines from Canada to Israel, but no one knows why the cargo suddenly appeared without advance notice.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today announced the beginning of Cyber Storm III�a three-day long, DHS-sponsored exercise that brings together a diverse cross-section of the nation�s cyber incident responders to assess U.S. cyber response capabilities.
