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Posted by: admin in Terrorism, Wars and Rumors of Wars, surveillance, tags: Barack Obama, Boeing Co, CERT, Crime Gangs, Cyber Defense, Cyber Solutions, cyber war, Cybersecurity Plan, Department of Homeland Security, Lockheed Martin, Private Computer Networks, Security Breaches
Source: Bloomberg.com
Lockheed Martin Corp. and Boeing Co., the world’s biggest defense companies, are deploying forces and resources to a new battlefield: cyberspace.
The military contractors, eager to capture a share of a market that may reach $11 billion in four years, have formed new business units to tap increased spending to protect U.S. government computers from attack.
Chicago-based Boeing set up its Cyber Solutions division in August “because of a realization by the company that it’s a very serious threat,” Barbara Fast, vice president of the unit, said in an interview. “It’s not a question of if we’ll be attacked but when and so how will we be prepared.” Lockheed launched its cyber-defense operation in October.
President George W. Bush announced a national cybersecurity plan in January to be supervised by the Department of Homeland Security, after an increasing number of attacks on U.S. government and private sector networks by groups linked to foreign governments, organized crime gangs and hackers. In a Dec. 8 report, a panel of experts said President-elect Barack Obama should create a White House office to oversee the effort.
“The whole area of cyber is probably one of the faster-growing areas” of the U.S. budget, Linda Gooden, executive vice president of Lockheed’s Information Systems & Global Services unit, said in an interview. “It’s something that we’re very focused on. I expect there will be a significant focus” under Obama.
The number of security breaches of U.S. and private-computer networks reported to the Computer Emergency Readiness Team of the Homeland Security Department almost doubled to 72,000 in the fiscal year ended in October from about 37,000 the previous year, agency spokeswoman Amy Kudwa said in an interview.
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Posted by: admin in Police State, Terrorism, tags: Barack Obama, Clinton Administration Officials, Continuity of Government, Department of Homeland Security, False Flag, Fortier, Joshua Bolten, Response Capabilities, Tabletop Exercises, Terrorism, Terrorism Response
Source: USATODAY.com
What would happen if terrorists attacked the United States at the start of Barack Obama’s presidency?
The Bush administration doesn’t want to wait to find out. It’s planning to test the incoming government’s readiness next month in a series of tabletop exercises involving top Bush and Obama officials.
Concerned about the first handoff of presidential power since Sept. 11, 2001, the White House also is preparing briefing books and office manuals designed to bring the incoming Obama administration up to speed in a hurry.
“This is the first wartime transition in 40 years, and it’s probably the first transition in a couple of centuries in which our homeland itself has been under threat,” says White House chief of staff Joshua Bolten, who’s supervising the effort. The goal is to “make sure that those who are coming in are as well prepared as they can be to deal with an actual threat here in this country.”
Although Obama’s emerging team includes many former Clinton administration officials and members of Congress, most have not served in the executive branch since the Department of Homeland Security was created. That makes it critically important that they quickly understand the federal government’s terrorism-response capabilities.
White House officials have not said what specific scenarios will be played out in next month’s exercises. One overriding concern since 2001 has been the possibility that Washington comes under attack. In that case, plans would need to be in place for the replacement of key government officials.
“They would be smart to be thinking about these things,” says John Fortier, executive director of the Continuity of Government Commission, created by Congress in 2002 to help plan for terrorist attack aftermaths. “You face a lot of perverse scenarios.”
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Posted by: admin in False Flag, Terrorism, tags: Al Qadea, Cnn, Department of Homeland Security, False Information, Fbi Statement, Federal Authorities, Homemade Bomb, Intelligence Community, Rail Trains, September 11 Attacks, Suicide Bombers, Transit Systems
If it is possible that Al Qadea is planting false information about terrorist attacks then CNN must be a primary method of dissemination.
 New York City Transit Source: CNN.com
Federal authorities have received a “plausible but unsubstantiated” report that al Qaeda may have discussed targeting transit systems in or around New York, the Department of Homeland Security said.
“These discussions reportedly involved the use of suicide bombers or explosives” on subway or passenger rail trains, according to a joint Homeland Security and FBI statement issued Tuesday.
“We have no specific details to confirm that this plot has developed beyond aspirational planning, but we are issuing this warning out of concern that such an attack could possibly be conducted during the forthcoming holiday season,” the statement said.
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The FBI and Department of Homeland Security said they had no further information on the threat.
“We are working closely with the U.S. intelligence community, state and local law enforcement and homeland security officials to vet and corroborate this reporting, and will continue to investigate every possible lead. We’ll provide updates as we obtain further information,” the statement said.
The public should remain vigilant and report suspicious activity to authorities, it said.
Al Qaeda has the means to launch such an attack, said CNN senior international correspondent Nic Robertson, who has covered al Qaeda extensively since before the September 11 attacks.
“The al Qaeda-affiliated groups are still willing to make these attacks,” Robertson said. “What we’ve seen in the past is, they’ve become capable of making these homemade bomb devices with detonators and exploding them by cell phones or by suicide bombings.”
However, he said, it also would be possible for al Qaeda to plant false information.
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Source: msnbc.com
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security today issued an analytical “note” to U.S. law-enforcement officials cautioning that al-Qaida terrorists have in the past expressed interest in attacking public buildings using a dozen suicide bombers each carrying 20 kilograms of explosives.
Authors with the U.S. Office of Intelligence and Analysis added that they have “no credible or specific information that terrorists are planning operations against public buildings in the United States.” The FBI and DHS analysts said they were releasing the note because “it is important for local authorities and building owners and operators to be aware of potential attack tactics.”
According to the note obtained by NBC News, a “recently discovered audio recording of al-Qa‘ida training sessions conducted several years ago provides instruction to potential suicide terrorists on seizing a publicly accessible building and damaging or destroying it with explosive charges.”
Among the materials on a CD–ROM seized earlier this year by Belgian authorities and provided to Interpol, the note said, “is a detailed audio explanation by now-deceased senior al-Qa‘ida operative Yousef al-Ayeeri of a method taught in an al-Qa‘ida training camp for attacking a publicly accessible building. Interpol believes the Arabic-language recording was made shortly before al-Ayeeri’s death in 2003.”
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