Federal Eye: Pistole the latest official to send mixed messages
Obama administration officials spent the weekend sharing different comments on airport security, the latest example of the president and Cabinet secretaries sending mixed messages on policy or politics to the American public.
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Sanford International Airport Opting Out of TSA Screening, Hiring Own Firm
Sanford, FL, United States (AHN) – Orlando’s Sanford International Airport has decided to opt out of TSA’s pat down process. The facility has decided to hire their own private security screening agency.
The airport believes the move will offer passengers “better service at a better price and more accountability and better customer service.”
The airport is allowed to commence this move using one of five private security firms already approved by TSA.
Larry Dale, the director of the Sanford Airport Authority hopes that if things all go according to plan the new private security firm will be in place by the end of 2011.
TSA officials say that even if an airport decides to use a private firm for security, the firm still must follow TSA guidelines. That would include using enhanced pat-downs and the full-body scanners that have prompted the ire of many if they are installed at the airport.
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Obama urges India to look for peace
President calls for rebuilding of trust in wake of Mumbai terror attacks as US state visit notches up £6bn in trade deals
Barack Obama urged India today to strengthen peace efforts with Pakistan after relations dived following the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.
“My hope is that over time, trust develops between the two countries, that dialogue begins, perhaps on less controversial issues, building up to more controversial issues,” Obama told a meeting of students at a college in Mumbai.
“There are more Pakistanis who’ve been killed by terrorists inside Pakistan than probably anywhere else.”
While Obama’s visit is mainly about boosting trade with India, the issue of regional stability in South Asia dominated the student meeting. Obama answered a range of questions at St Xavier College, a Jesuit institution.
When a young woman challenged him on US support of Pakistan, Obama said: “I must admit I expected [that question].”
India blames Pakistan for backing militants and claims that elements within Pakistan were behind the Mumbai attacks in 2008, when Pakistan-based gunmen killed 166 people.
Obama and his wife, Michelle , arrived yesterday in Mumbai on the first leg of a 10-day tour of Asia to boost American trade and to consolidate ties with key regional allies.
Obama yesterday paid tribute to those killed in the Mumbai attacks at the Taj Mahal hotel. “We will never forget,” Obama said at a memorial.
The Obamas stayed at the Taj Mahal hotel before flying to Delhi. An entire floor has been reserved for the couple and all 570 rooms booked for their security team and entourage, which includes investors and trade officials.
Around 10,000 Indian security personnel have been deployed for the visit.
Last night, the president addressed an audience of top Indian business people in Mumbai . The White House, keenly aware of the role that the fragile American economy played in last week’s poor midterm election results for the Democrats, has been keen to underline the economic gains the trip is expected to bring for America.
US firms will finalise deals worth around $10bn (£6bn) with India that will support 54,000 jobs back home, a senior White House aide, Michael Froman, told reporters.
Some 20 deals are in the pipeline, including an engine contract for General Electric and a $2.7bn commission for passenger aircraft from Boeing for one of India’s fast-expanding private airlines. However, the $4.5bn sale by Boeing of C-17 military transport planes is still being negotiated.
George W Bush, during the last visit by an American president in 2006, controversially blessed India’s civil nuclear power programme. Few expect the same kind of breakthrough this time. But no one predicts an upset either.
“At the end it will look good. The Indians understand they need to be seen to be helping the US with some decent economic deals. Obama understands he needs to reassure India that the momentum in relations generated by Bush is still there,” said C Raja Mohan, an Indian academic and foreign policy analyst.
The economic emphasis has disappointed some in Delhi. Indian diplomats are looking for signs of a new US strategic vision for South Asia that would give them a central role to counterbalance China.
American officials have restricted themselves to noting the “emergence” of India and its middle class, and observing that “regional dynamics will change fast” in coming years.
US diplomats last week restated their desire for measures ranging from reforms of ownership regulations to changes in intellectual property law, which would ease access to Indian markets for US firms.
Indian hopes for the waiving of restrictions on the transfer of US technology to government bodies working on space research or nuclear technology seem likely to be fulfilled.
The White House is also likely to support Indian membership of four key global nuclear nonproliferation regimes. “We will end up treating India similar to other close allies and partners other than as a country of concern,” Froman said.
But there is unlikely to be an explicit statement backing India’s bid for permanent membership of the UN security council.
In Delhi, as well as a visit to a Mughal-era Islamic tomb, an address to parliament and a state dinner, Obama will meet Manmohan Singh, the 78-year-old Indian prime minister, and Sonia Gandhi, the head of the Congress party.
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Developing: U.S. On Alert After Inbound Packages Contained Explosives
Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – American authorities say packages intercepted overseas contained explosives destined for the United States. President Barack Obama was alerted late Thursday night, according to the White House, and ordered security officials to be on alert.
“Last night, intelligence and law enforcement agencies discovered potential suspicious packages on two planes in transit to the United States,” White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said. Based on close cooperation among U.S. government agencies and with our foreign allies and partners, authorities were able to identify and examine two suspicious packages, one in East Midlands, United Kingdom and one in Dubai.”
“Both of these packages originated from Yemen. As a result of security precautions triggered by this threat, the additional measures were taken regarding the flights at Newark Liberty and Philadelphia International Airports,” Gibbs added.
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Internet Security Beefed Up After Hacking Of 27,000 Student Passwords
London, Ontario, Canada (AHN) – Officials of the Thames Valley District School Board ordered a tightening of internet security over the weekend after the passwords of 27,000 high school students were exposed.
The students’ passwords, grades and schedules were made available on a page on popular social networking site Facebook. After the incident, which took place Wednesday, the board temporarily shut down the website the following day.
The computer system upgrade is expected to be finished in a few weeks. The upgrade would encrypt the passwords and webpages for students.
Valerie Nielsen, superintendent of education responsible for information technology of the board, advised students who use the same passwords in their other accounts, such as private emails or other social networking sites, to change their password information as soon as possible.
Police from London, Ontario, are probing how the hacking was done.
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Australia’s questions over iPhone security: justified?
John Lawler, the CEO of the Australian Crime Commission, has spoken about the serious threat of online crime in today’s highly tech-savvy world, something that extends all the way to the iPhone.
At the International Serious and Organised Crime 2010 event, the Australian Crime Commission’s (ACC) CEO, John Lawler, gave an excellent address on the topic of cyber security in today’s world and the many and varied threats affecting us all that are all too real. The entire talk called “The Fifth Estate: Organised Crime Goes Virtual” is available to read at the ACC’s website and makes for fascinating and sobering reading, delving into the deeply reaching tendrils of cloud computing which unify all kinds of information, the threat from mobile devices, new ways to police online crime, the sophistication of malware, the underground economy and much more. In the course of the address, Mr Lawler talked about threats from the mobile world, noting a Sydney Morning Herald article which “reported on the massive uptake of the iPhone particularly in the business market where it is the third most used system in the world and is being deployed or piloted by more than 70 per cent of Fortune 100 companies”, and followed this up by saying “Yet IT managers are swimming against the phone’s tide of popularity because they can’t centralise installation and security updates as with other software.” It’s true that phones such as the BlackBerry and those running Windows Mobile 6.5 have been much easier for IT admins to administer, but it has to be said that Apple has been dramatically improving enterprise support and interoperability with each version and must continue doing so to remain competitive and secure in a business environment. Mr Lawler continues: “This overwhelming desire for instant services at the expense of security safeguards is something I’ll return to in a moment. “But aside from the potential to facilitate traditional crimes using these devices, for example, by spreading spam, there is a growing criminal movement targeting such devices directly. “In May this year Italian customs agents broke up a phony iPhone ring selling fake Chinese-made iPhones having correctly predicted that organised crime groups would invest in such activities as a less risky way than drug trafficking to reap big revenues. “In August this year, London police arrested nine people and seized one thousand iPhones as they uncovered a criminal network that was using premium phone lines to launder profits and hide identities.” Continued on page two, please read on!
Mr Lawler makes a comment on the iMob game and what might be inspiring the game and who might be behind it. He then says: “So with the explosive uptake of personal communication devices, there are certainly already opportunities that appeal to organised criminals. “The future will undoubtedly bring even more opportunities, particularly as the buzzword is convergence and strategists predict that so much of our information, entertainment and even our body data, our emotions and senses could be streamed through one, individual and embedded device. “What will organised crime make of that?” There’s much, much more to John Lawler’s article, and it’s definitely worth reading. However it must be said that iPhone security should be much stronger than that of most competing devices. Unless an unpatched vulnerability is discovered and withheld so it can be used en masse against anyone online criminals want to target, as was possible with the iPad OS 3.2.1 and iPhone OS 4.0.x versions through a PDF vulnerability that could be exploited from a web page, unmodified iPhones only run software available from the Apple store, and not unknown third party sources. Unknown and unpatched vulnerabilities are popping up all the time in software, fixed through updates, so the chance that online criminals are finding these and exploiting them before they are patched is not only very high, it already happens – zero day threats are real, after all. There could be DNS cache poisoning to capture some information from iPhones connected to rogue Wi-Fi hotspots, but then any device could be vulnerable to such an attack, especially if VPN software isn’t being used on such a connection. After all, if a thief wants to break into your house, most fancy door locks won’t stand up to being ramraided with a 4WD car, even if they will stop a boot. But we can all still do things to have as much security as possible, such as not jailbreaking your iDevice, being aware of phishing and other social engineering tricks and running the latest Internet security software on platforms that need it. Jailbroken iPhones have been vulnerable in the past when default passwords weren’t changed, and there could easily be malicious unauthorised iPhone software out there targeting jailbroken devices, but these are not the majority of devices that are used in an unmodified fashion. So… online security is something that has not only become extremely important, but a vastly profitable battlefield for online criminals, and one that countries around the world are having to take extremely seriously. It’s not your phone, but every aspect of your digital life that you have to think of, because it’s not just governments and corporations that want to track you, but online criminals too, who can do a much better job of ripping you off and screwing around with your life than the various governments and corporations in our lives already do!
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Nigeria Probes Security Lapse As Toxic Ship Disappears
Lagos, Nigeria (AHN) – Nearly a week after Nigeria detained an U.K.-registered ship, which was apparently carrying toxic waste, the Grand America suddenly has disappeared, prompting local authorities to launch an investigation.
Authorities are searching for who released the ship, which had off-loaded seven containers with electronic waste. Two vessels carrying similar cargoes, the Grand America and the New York-based MV Veradin, had recently been detained by the port authorities.
Nigeria’s Environmental Standards Enforcement Agency’s Director General Ngeri Benebo told the BBC that the Grand America came to Lagos from Antwerp, while the other ship came via Spain.
The sudden disappearance of the ship raises question of security lapse at Nigeria’s seaports. Benebo questioned why the MV Veradin remained at the port, while the Grand America was allowed to leave.
According to Customs spokesman Wale Adeniyi, last week, officials from the environmental agency inspected the Grand America’s cargo and found used TVs, computer monitors and other electronics, which were deemed toxic. Officials returned the cargo to the vessel and customs released the Grand America because they did not receive any detention request.
Meanwhile a Basel Action Network, which monitors the trade in hazardous waste, has voiced its concerns over throwing toxic e-waste in Nigeria. However, this is not the first time the toxic wastes are dumped in the African nation.
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US to offer security pact to Pakistan: New York Times
To repair ties damaged by the American military’s tough new stance in the region, the Obama administration will offer Pakistan a multi-year security pact complete with more reliable military aid, according to the New York Times .
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