Cyber warfare: Capitol staffers aren’t ready

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Congressional staffers are the gateway to all lawmaking on the Hill, but they also may be unwittingly opening the door to hackers. The Hill’s networks are under constant attack. In 2013 alone, the Senate Sergeant at Arms’ office said it investigated…

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Pentagon/U.S. Capitol bomb plotter sentenced

Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector:  federal_agencies_legislative Image Caption:  Rezwan Ferdaus The 27-year-old Boston area man who plotted in 2011 to crash remote controlled model airplanes laden with high-explosives into the U.S. Capitol building and Pentagon will serve 17 years in federal prison. Rezwan Ferdaus was sentenced on Nov. 1 for…

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Capitol Police react to Onion satire

The Bismarck Tribune WASHINGTON — Capitol Police were not amused by tweets and an article written by the satirical newspaper The Onion falsely reporting that members of Congress had taken a group of schoolchildren hostage. The satirical newspaper’s Twitter accounts and related story Thursday reporting gunshots and hostage-taking in the…

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