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• FBI: Russian Programmer At Goldman Sachs Stole
  Stock-Trading Secret Code
  
  
• 3 Kentucky Congressmen Receive Suspicious
  Letters
  
  
• SC Serial Killer Believed Killed In Shootout
  
  
  
• Cybercriminals Steal $415,000 From Bullitt County
  Kentucky
  
  
• Tunisia – Soldiers Arrested In Terror Plot
  Against US Military Officers
  
  
• Al-Qaeda Cell Was Preparing To Attack Middle East
  Gas Pipelines
  
  
• UK – Bomb Seizures Spark Far-right Terror Plot
  Fear

FBI: Russian Programmer At Goldman Sachs Stole Stock-Trading Secret Code Posted: 07 Jul 2009 01:19 AM PDT A computer programmer working for Goldman Sachs was arrested last week on charges that he stole proprietary source code for software his employer uses to make sophisticated, high-speed, high-volume stock and commodities trades. Sergey Aleynikov, who earned nearly $400,000 a year in his job, allegedly stole 32 megabytes of data over four days in June and transferred it to a website hosted in Germany before trying to erase his tracks from Goldman Sach’s network. He neglected to take into account, however, that the company kept a backup record of its command logs. On at least two occasions, he transferred the data remotely while logged into his company’s network from his home computer. Aleynikov, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Russia, was arrested on July 3 at the Newark Airport in New Jersey as he exited a flight and is being held on charges related to theft of trade secrets until he posts $750,000 in bond, pays $75,000 in cash and surrenders his travel documents. Read Full Article 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.

3 Kentucky Congressmen Receive Suspicious Letters Posted: 06 Jul 2009 02:32 PM PDT The United States Capitol Police are investigating suspicious letters sent Monday to the district offices of three Republican congressmen from Kentucky The letters were sent to the offices of Reps. Ed Whitfield of the 1st District, Brett Guthrie of the 2nd District and Geoff Davis of the 4th District. At least two of the letters claimed — falsely — to contain anthrax, spokesmen for the congressmen said. Capitol Police Sgt. Kimberly Schneider confirmed that her agency was conducting an investigation but declined to offer details. Source 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.

SC Serial Killer Believed Killed In Shootout Posted: 06 Jul 2009 02:25 PM PDT Authorities were investigating whether a man who was shot and killed Monday morning by police in North Carolina may be linked to the slayings of five people in South Carolina in a week. South Carolina law enforcement officers were in Gaston County, N.C., near Charlotte, after county police shot and killed the man, who they said opened fire on them Monday morning, NBC News’ Ron Mott reported. Source 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.

Cybercriminals Steal $415,000 From Bullitt County Kentucky Posted: 06 Jul 2009 02:16 PM PDT Sophisticated international cybercriminals stole $415,000 from a bank account belonging to Bullitt County, Ky. last month — and got two dozen regular citizens to help them. [...] A gang based in the former Soviet Union used viruses to secretly take control of computers used by county officials, including the country treasurer and a local judge, according to the Washington Post. Then they secretly re-routed e-mails containing one-time passwords that both the treasurer and the judge would have to use to authorize wire transfers from the account, which belonged to Bullitt County Fiscal Court in Shepherdsville and was used to make payroll. Beginning on June 22, the hackers began sending transfers, each under $10,000 so as not to alert federal watchdogs, to the bank accounts of 25 different Americans who’d been unwittingly recruited as “mules” by the Eastern European criminals. The mules, who’d responded to ads for temporary at-home editing work on the job-placement Web site CareerBuilder.com, were instructed to keep 5 percent of the transfers as “commissions” and wire the rest of the money to accounts in Ukraine and Russia. One mule found herself out thousands of dollars once Bullitt County got wise to what was happening and its bank started recalling the transfers. Read Full Article 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.

Tunisia – Soldiers Arrested In Terror Plot Against US Military Officers Posted: 06 Jul 2009 10:30 AM PDT Tunisian authorities have reportedly arrested nine soldiers for allegedly planning attacks on visiting American military officers. The arrests were made under the Tunisian anti-terrorism law, lawyers said. The detainees, two of whom are officers in the Tunisian Air Force, planned to assassinate American military officers who visit the country periodically for military training and joint exercises with the Tunisian army, the German Deutsche Press Agency (DPA) reported. Dr. Jack Kalpakian, a political expert at Morocco’s Al-Akhawayn University in Ifrane, said he was not surprised to hear news of the terror sweep. “Tunisia’s government has followed a very secularist policy and has not been very sympathetic towards any kind of political religious expression,” he told The Media Line. “While in other countries in North Africa expressions of Islamism are tolerated to some extent, Tunisia represses these voices,” he said. Lawyer Samir Bin ‘Amar told DPA that a court charged the nine detainees with incitement to carry out terror attacks, attempting to acquire weapons and explosives for a terror organization and using Tunisian soil to recruit people for a terror organization. Read Full Article 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.

Al-Qaeda Cell Was Preparing To Attack Middle East Gas Pipelines Posted: 06 Jul 2009 10:20 AM PDT An international Al-Qaeda cell, based in the northern Sinai Penninsula, is suspected of being involved in plans to attack gas pipelines running between Israel and Egypt. According to Egyptian media, the plan was to strike Israeli ships passing through the Suez Canal. Ten people, allegedly behind a February bomb attack at Cairo’s famous Khan el-Khalili market, have been under suspicion since a police raid uncovered arms and information from a hideout used by the group. The cache of explosives included anti-tank weapons, car bombs and personal explosive belts. Two Palestinians, five Egyptians, a Belgian, a Briton and a French citizen are among the suspected cell members. It is believed the European members probably entered Egypt through underground tunnels near Rafah into the Gaza Strip. They allegedly received money for their mission and moved back to Egypt through the tunnels, at which time they allegedly carried out the Cairo attack. It has been suggested the cell was controlled by Khaled Mohammed Ahmed, the Palestinian-based commander of an al-Qaeda group. Source 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.

UK – Bomb Seizures Spark Far-right Terror Plot Fear Posted: 06 Jul 2009 10:06 AM PDT A network of suspected far-right extremists with access to 300 weapons and 80 bombs has been uncovered by counter-terrorism detectives. Thirty-two people have been questioned in a police operation that raises the prospect of a right-wing bombing campaign against mosques. Police are said to have recovered a British National party membership card and other right-wing literature during a raid on the home of one suspect charged under the Terrorism Act. In England’s largest seizure of a suspected terrorist arsenal since the IRA mainland bombings of the early 1990s, rocket launchers, grenades, pipe bombs and dozens of firearms have been recovered in the past six weeks during raids on more than 20 properties. Several people have been charged and more arrests are imminent. Current police activity is linked to arrests in Europe, New Zealand and Australia. Police are examining allegations that many of the guns were manufactured or reactivated, then sold over the internet to viewers of a right-wing website. Details of the previously secret operation were disclosed by Sir Norman Bettison, the chief constable of West Yorkshire, to security officials. via Source 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.

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