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Chinese Hackers Blamed for Intrusion at Energy Industry Giant Telvent. A company whose software and services are used to remotely administer and monitor large sections of the energy industry began warning customers last week that it is investigating a sophisticated hacker attack spanning its operations in the United States, Canada and Spain. Experts say digital fingerprints left behind by attackers point to a Chinese hacking group tied to repeated cyber-espionage campaigns against key Western interests. The attack comes as U.S. policymakers remain gridlocked over legislation designed to beef up the cybersecurity posture of energy companies and other industries that maintain some of the world’s most vital information networks. In letters sent to customers last week, Telvent Canada Ltd. said that on Sept. 10, 2012 it learned of a breach of its internal firewall and security systems. Telvent did not respond to several requests for comment. A page from an alert Telvent sent to customers about the malware left behind by the intruders.

Conferences and Events. The NSA Acquisition Organization conducts a variety of outreach initiatives for the purpose of establishing partnerships with industry, academia, and other local, state, and federal government entities. If you are interested in participating in any of the following upcoming events, please contact the Office of Small Business Programs via e-mail at smallbusiness@nsa.gov. "Pathway to Success" Briefing "Pathway to Success" is designed to assist new vendors, large and small, in learning about this Agency, our needs, and special programs intended to enhance our industrial base. Information on both internal and external marketing opportunities will be provided as well.

Technology Expositions/Vendor Showcases: These events are designed to provide NSA personnel with a convenient opportunity to observe the latest technologies of interest to NSA and to provide companies with a cost- and time-effective forum to demonstrate their capabilities. Business in A Minute: U.S. Strategic Command - Home. Welcome to the National Intelligence Council (NIC) Cybersecurity. ADLnet - Advanced Distributed Learning: Home Page. The Return of Aaron Barr: Victim of Embarrassing Hacking Now Cybersecurity Chief at Large Federal Contractor. By NEIL GORDON If you have been following the twists and turns of the Wikileaks saga, you might remember the incident earlier this year involving an IT executive named Aaron Barr and the activist hacker group known as Anonymous. It's a comically bizarre story, but it has larger implications that deserve to be taken very seriously.

In February, Barr, CEO of cybersecurity consulting firm HBGary Federal, unwittingly picked a fight with the pro-Wikileaks band of hackers when he boasted in an online article that his company had successfully infiltrated Anonymous by trolling online social media and had gathered personal data on its members. In retaliation, Anonymous hacked into the email accounts of HBGary (the parent company of HBGary Federal) and posted thousands of their emails online. They also hacked Barr’s iPad, iPhone, and his online accounts. After the story broke, Barr resigned from HBGary Federal. The ethics complaint is still pending. However, Barr can’t completely escape his past. Catching the Next WikiLeaker. USMagazine, Wednesday, September 12, 2012, 7:18am (PDT) Zachary Quinto is glee-fully in love! After coming out as gay in a moving New York Times interview in October 2011, the Star Trek actor, 35, confirms to Out magazine that he's in a relationship with Jonathan Groff.

"I'm incredibly happy, I'm incredibly lucky," Quinto says of life with Groff, 27, familiar to TV fans of Boss and Glee, in which he played Jesse St. James, the scheming (and singing!) Ex-boyfriend of Rachel Berry (Lea Michele). PHOTOS: Out and proud stars Quinto declined to go into further detail about the relationship with Groff, but does tell Out that he's broken an unhealthy romantic habit borne out of the death of his father. "I found myself in a pattern of being attracted to people who were somehow unavailable, and what I realized was that I was protecting myself because I equated the idea of connection and love with trauma and death," Quinto reveals. PHOTOS: LGBT allies in Hollywood VIDEO: Anderson Cooper dishes with Us.

Dasient Protects Against Web Malware Attacks. Top Secret America: Who is TSA? DIA Defence Intelegence Agency. FedWorld.gov home. OpenSecrets.org: Money in Politics -- See Who's Giving & Who's Getting. Data.gov. National Archives and Records Administration. CENTCOM. Washington's $8 Billion Shadow. Mega-contractors such as Halliburton and Bechtel supply the government with brawn. But the biggest, most powerful of the "body shops"—SAIC, which employs 44,000 people and took in $8 billion last year—sells brainpower, including a lot of the "expertise" behind the Iraq war. , Donald L.

Barlett and James B. Steele report:The McLean, Virginia, offices of Science Applications International Corporation, a "stealth company" with 9,000 government contracts, many of which involve secret intelligence work. Photograph by Coral von Zumwalt. One of the great staples of the modern Washington movie is the dark and ruthless corporation whose power extends into every cranny around the globe, whose technological expertise is without peer, whose secrets are unfathomable, whose riches defy calculation, and whose network of allies, in and out of government, is held together by webs of money, ambition, and fear.

To be sure, there isn't really such a corporation: the Omnivore Group, as it might be called. L-3 Communications. L-3 Communications Corporation, headquartered in New York, New York is a leading supplier of a broad range of products and services used in a substantial number of aerospace and defense platforms. L-3 is also a major supplier of systems, subsystems and products on many platforms, including those for secure networked communications and communication products, mobile satellite communications, information security systems, shipboard communications, naval power systems, missiles and munitions, telemetry and instrumentation and airport security systems. L-3 Applied Signal & Image Technology (L-3 ASIT), headquartered in Linthicum Heights, MD, has been a provider of innovative signal processing solutions for use by the U.S. military and intelligence community since 1992.

ASIT specializes in the research, engineering and production of signal processing systems. L-3 Electron Technologies, Inc. L-3 Communications has the following reportable business segments: * Avionics Systems * ComCept * Linkabit.