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Yemeni Hackers Mining US Mil Intel

Filed under: Al-Qaeda, Communications, USA, Yemen — by Jane Novak at 10:15 am on Friday, March 6, 2009

I think its safe put to the attempts coming out of Yemen and Pakistan in the same basket, and China in another. Iran could be either.

MSNBC

Employees of Tiversa, a Cranberry Township, Pa.-based security company that specializes in peer-to-peer technology, reportedly found engineering and communications information about Marine One at an IP address in Tehran, Iran…

“What appears to be a defense contractor in Bethesda, Md., had a file-sharing program on one of their systems that also contained highly sensitive blueprints for Marine One,” Boback said…

“We’ve noticed it out of Pakistan, Yemen, Qatar and China. They are actively searching for information that is disclosed in this fashion because it is a great source of intelligence,” Boback said.

Clark told WPXI that he doesn’t know how sensitive this information is, but he said other military information has been found on the Internet in the past and should be monitored more closely.

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