Finally...Some Good news

It looks like the TSA has found something other than actor Dennis Farina's gun. Shemeka Greaves, a TSA officer at O'Hare International Airport, read a newspaper account about Janisia Grant, 8, who had disappeared with her mother a week ago Thursday, the TSA said in a news release.

According to the article, "Greaves checked the security tapes and confirmed that Janisia had been through an airport security checkpoint and boarded a plane to Atlanta with a companion, the TSA said. "

As you might imnagine, Grant's mother does not have custody of the child.

FBI: China Using Bootleg CISCO Router to Infilitrate DOD

This really should come as no surprise, but every day there's a new thing that grabs my attention. The feds have seized over 400 counterfeit Cisco routers worth in the neighborhood of $76 million. I don't how much your firm allocates to competitive intelligence but the Chinese have a slightly larger budget. The FBi believes the routers were being used to penetrate both private and gpublic sector networks. These routers, as you might imagine, would certainly have vulnerabilities and a backdoor these agents could then use to access the networks which were targeted.

Who in government would purchase such routers? According to the article, "Among the purchasers of the fake equipment were the U.S. Naval Academy, U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center, U.S. Naval Undersea Warfare Center, U.S. Air Base at Spangdahelm, Germany, the Bonneville Power Administration, General Services Administration, and the defense contractor Raytheon, which makes key missile and weapons systems." Pretty big fish.....

Nosy Employee...Oh, How do I love thee?

Turns out the lady pictured above, Nadire Zelenaj, was arrested for using computers at work to access secure government websites containing information about suspected terrorists. Her site of choice while employed as 911 dispatcher - a terrorist watch list. It should be noted there is a difference between accessing information and having the ability to change it. Her job as a 911 dispatcher would only have granted her access privileges (I hope). So far, she's only been charged with illegally accessing that information 232 times! A fellow employee became suspicious (I love nosy employees....They keep the rest of us honest) and reported her. Investigators then tracked her accessing the list over the course of almost 2 years from January 2006 and December 2007.