Current Event: Someone in Tehran Knows Something About the Presidential Helicopter
According to Slashdot, NBC News and msnbc.com report that Tiversa, a Pennsylvania-based security company, recently found extensive information about Marine One, the president’s helicopter, on a computer with a Tehran IP address. This information included “engineering and communications” specifications, as well as “entire blueprints and avionics package,” and “sensitive financial information about the cost of the helicopter.” The leak appears to have originated on one of the computers of a defense contractor in Maryland. An employee reportedly downloaded a file-sharing program onto a computer containing the sensitive information, not realizing that this would allow others around the world access to the computer’s hard drive. (Read on …)