Sunday, March 1, 2009

Pennsylvania Company Discovers Marine One Security Breach

Marine One (Image from Wikimedia)

From FOX News:

Sensitive information about Marine One was reportedly found by Tiversa employees at an IP address in Tehran, Iran.

A Pennsylvania company that monitors peer-to-peer file-sharing networks discovered a potentially serious security breach involving President Obama's helicopter, Marine One, NBC affiliate WPXI in Pittsburgh reported.

Sensitive information about Marine One was reportedly found by Tiversa employees at an IP address in Tehran.

Tiversa CEO Bob Boback said a defense contractor in Bethesda, Md., had a file sharing program on one of their systems that contained highly sensitive blueprints for Marine One and financial information about the cost of the helicopter.

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My Comment: It is probably harmless .... P2P networks are like that .... but this is information that is best kept secret.

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