Tuesday, April 21, 2009

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Computer Spies Breach Strike Fighter Jet Project


Posted: 21 Apr 2009 01:26 AM PDT



Computer spies have broken into the Pentagon’s $300 billion Joint Strike

Fighter project — the Defense Department’s costliest weapons

program ever — according to current and former government officials

familiar with the attacks.


Similar incidents have also breached the Air Force’s air-traffic-control system in

recent months, these people say. In the case of the fighter-jet program, the

intruders were able to copy and siphon off several terabytes of data related

to design and electronics systems, officials say, potentially making it easier

to defend against the craft.


The latest intrusions provide new evidence that a battle is heating up

between the U.S. and potential adversaries over the data networks that tie

the world together.

The revelations follow a recent Wall Street Journal report that computers

used to control the U.S. electrical-distribution system, as well as other

infrastructure, have also been infiltrated by spies abroad.


Attacks like these — or U.S. awareness of them — appear to have

escalated in the past six months, said one former official briefed on

the matter. “There’s never been anything like it,” this person said,

adding that other military and civilian agencies as well as private

companies are affected. “It’s everything that keeps this country

going.”


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Read a somewhat related story from earier this week. - Chinese

cyber spies have penetrated so deep into the US system ranging

from its secure defense network, banking system, electricity grid to

putting spy chips into its defense planes that it can cause serious

damage to the US any time, a top US official on counter-intelligence

has said.



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FBI’s Most Wanted Lists 1st Domestic Terror Suspect


Posted: 21 Apr 2009 12:01 AM PDT



The FBI on Tuesday will for the first time add the name of a

domestic-terrorism suspect to its list of Most Wanted Terrorists, a

post-Sept. 11 creation that until now has included only suspected

Islamist terrorists, a law enforcement official told The Washington Times.


Daniel Andreas San Diego, a 31-year-old animal rights activist, is wanted in

connection with the 2003 bombings of two companies in the San Francisco

Bay Area linked to an animal-testing laboratory.

San Diego will take his place on a list that has included notorious international

terrorists such as Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahri and Adam Gadahn,

the American-born al Qaeda spokesman, said the law enforcement official,

who spoke on the condition of anonymity so as not to pre-empt the official

announcement.


The announcement is being made nearly a week after The Times reported

on a Homeland Security Department assessment warning that war veterans

could be susceptible to recruitment into “right-wing extremism.” The report

unleashed a firestorm of controversy and led to an apology to veterans from

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.

Authorities say San Diego planted bombs at the corporate offices of

two biotechnology companies, Chiron Life Sciences Center in Emeryville,

Calif., and Shaklee Corp. in Pleasanton, Calif.


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