Possible Threat To Obama's Security Discovered

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.wpxi.com/news/18818589/detail.html

WPXI.com
February 28, 2009

PITTSBURGH -- Target 11 has learned a Cranberry company that monitors 
peer-to-peer file-sharing networks discovered what it said is a 
potentially serious security breach involving President Barack Obama.s 
helicopter.

Tiversa employees found engineering and communications information about 
Marine One at an IP address in Tehran, Iran.

Bob Boback, CEO of Tiversa, said, .We found a file containing entire 
blueprints and avionics package for Marine One,which is the president's 
helicopter."

The company was able to trace the file back to its original source.

"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.

Tiversa also found sensitive financial information about the cost of the 
helicopter on that same computer.

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