FBI Takes Control Of Troubled Sentinel Project

FBI Takes Control Of Troubled Sentinel Project

FBI Takes Control Of Troubled Sentinel Project

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InfoSec News: FBI Takes Control Of Troubled Sentinel Project: http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/enterprise-apps/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=227400495
By John Foley and J. Nicholas Hoover InformationWeek September 15, 2010
Following a July decision to freeze the last two phases of development on its Sentinel case-management system, the FBI now plans to take over management of the project from its primary contractor, Lockheed Martin.
The agency plans to use agile development processes to complete the project using its own employees and other technology partners, while reducing its reliance on Lockheed Martin. FBI CIO Chad Fulgham, in an interview with InformationWeek, described the move as "a significant change in the scope and responsibility" for Lockheed Martin.
The decision represents a bold move by the agency to salvage the Sentinel project, which is currently budgeted to cost $451 million, from multiple delays and rising costs. Fulgham said his goal is to complete the project on budget and without further delays.
FBI director Robert Mueller indicated in April that Sentinel, originally scheduled for completion in 2009, would be pushed back into 2011 due to delays and stop work orders. Fulgham now puts the target completion date at Sept. 2011, the end of the government's fiscal year, but acknowledges that agile development projects can be difficult to forecast. Development on Sentinel, currently paused, should begin again by October, Fulgham said.
The FBI awarded Sentinel to Lockheed Martin in March 2006 following the failure of an earlier effort (called the Virtual Case File system) to replace its outdated system for managing case records, saying it had learned its lessons from Virtual Case File's shortcomings. Sentinel was originally due to be completed over four phases. Two phases have been delivered to this point, with most of the system's hardware and software infrastructure in place. In July, the FBI released enhancements to the system's user interface, new electronic forms, digital signature features, and additional collaborative features, and more than 5,000 users now login to Sentinel weekly. However, much of the system's functionality, including a new case management database and some reporting capabilities, has yet to be put in place, and the existing outdated Automated Case Support system has yet to be retired.
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NSA product accreditations lag behind IT security advances

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InfoSec News: NSA product accreditations lag behind IT security advances: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/091510-nsa-accreditations.html
By Ellen Messmer Network World September 15, 2010
ORLANDO -- The National Security Agency wants to use commercially-built security products and the latest virtualization software. [...]

Cyber-Attack Deploys In Israeli Forces

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InfoSec News: Cyber-Attack Deploys In Israeli Forces: http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_channel.jsp?channel=defense&id=news/dti/2010/09/01/DT_09_01_2010_p42-248207.xml
By David Eshel Tel Aviv Aviation Week Sept 15, 2010
Geopolitical concerns and two wars in recent years have put Israel at the forefront of cyberwar and cyber-defense. [...]

Shaquille O’Neal slams lawsuit that says he’s a hacker, bully

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InfoSec News: Shaquille O'Neal slams lawsuit that says he's a hacker, bully: http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/basketball/celtics/view/20100916shaquille_oneal_slams_lawsuit_that_says_hes_a_hacker_bully/
By Jessica Van Sack Boston Herald September 16, 2010
Basketball’s notorious Hack-a-Shaq strategy took on a new meaning yesterday as the Hub’s newest hoop homeboy slammed a lawsuit filed against him that claims he hacked into a computer and tried to frame a former employee for possessing child porn.
The sordid civil suit against Shaquille O’Neal, the Celtics [team stats]’ new No. 36, accuses him of “intentional infliction of emotional distress” upon Shawn Darling, a former employee of the NBA standout.
The 15-page complaint, filed in a Miami court last month, pelts all manner of allegations at the former MVP and portrays him as a serial philanderer and bully. Among the charges:
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Die-hard bug bytes Linux kernel for second time

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InfoSec News: Die-hard bug bytes Linux kernel for second time: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/15/linux_kernel_regression_bug/
By Dan Goodin in San Francisco The Register 15th September 2010
The Linux kernel has been purged of a bug that gave root access to untrusted users – again.
The vulnerability in a component of the operating system that translates values from 64 bits to 32 bits (and vice versa) was fixed once before – in 2007 with the release of version 2.6.22.7. But several months later, developers inadvertently rolled back the change, once again leaving the OS open to attacks that allow unprivileged users to gain full root access.
The bug was originally discovered by the late hacker Wojciech "cliph" Purczynski. But Ben Hawkes, the researcher who discovered the kernel regression bug, said here that he grew suspicious when he recently began tinkering under the hood of the open-source OS and saw signs the flaw was still active.
“I showed this to my friend Robert Swiecki who had written an exploit for the original bug in 2007, and he immediately said something along the lines of 'well this is interesting,'” Hawkes wrote. “We pulled up his old exploit from 2007, and with a few minor modifications to the privilege escalation code, we had a root shell.”
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