[Infowarrior] - Data on Obama's helicopter breached via P2P?

[Richard Forno]

(c/o dissent)

Data on Obama's helicopter breached via P2P?
by Charles Cooper
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10184558-83.html

An Internet security company claims that Iran has taken advantage of a  
computer security breach to obtain engineering and communications  
information about Marine One, President Barack Obama's helicopter,  
according to a report by WPXI, NBC's affiliate in Pittsburgh.

Tiversa, headquartered in Cranberry Township, Pa., reportedly  
discovered a security breach that led to the transfer of military  
information to an Iranian IP address, according to WPXI. The  
information is said to include planned engineering upgrades, avionic  
schematics, and computer network information.

The channel quoted the company's CEO, Bob Boback, who said Tiversa  
found a file containing the entire blueprints and avionics package for  
Marine One.

"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 told WPXI.

Tiversa makes products that monitor the sharing of files online. A  
representative for the company was not immediately available for  
comment.

Boback believes that the files probably were transferred through a  
peer-to-peer file-sharing network such as LimeWire or BearShare, then  
compromised.


Charles Cooper has covered technology and business for more than 25  
years. Before joining CNET News, he worked at the Associated Press,  
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