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15-Year-Old Schoolboy Posed as CIA Chief to Hack Highly Sensitive Information

▻https://thehackernews.com/2018/01/crackas-with-attitude-hacker.html

A notorious pro-Palestinian hacking group behind a series of embarrassing hacks against United States intelligence officials and leaked the personal details of 20,000 FBI agents, 9,000 Department of Homeland Security officers, and some number of DoJ staffers in 2015.

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Believe or not, the leader of this hacking group was just 15-years-old when he used “social engineering” to impersonate CIA director and unauthorisedly access highly sensitive information from his Leicestershire home, revealed during a court hearing on Tuesday.

Kane Gamble, now 18-year-old, the British teenager hacker targeted then CIA director John Brennan, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, FBI deputy director Mark Giuliano, as well as other senior FBI figures.

Between June 2015 and February 2016, Gamble posed as Brennan and tricked call centre and helpline staff into giving away broadband and cable passwords, using which the team also gained access to plans for intelligence operations in Afghanistan and Iran.

Gamble said he targeted the US government because he was “getting more and more annoyed about how corrupt and cold-blooded the US Government” was and “decided to do something about it.”

Homeland Security to review privatized immigration detention

The Department of Homeland Security is considering curbing private immigration detention operations, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson announced Monday.

▻http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/private-immigration-detention-homeland-security-227507

#USA #Etats-Unis #détention_administrative #rétention #migrations #privatisation

Arctic is Top Priority for Homeland Security – But One of Many | Alaska Public Media

▻http://www.alaskapublic.org/2014/03/12/arctic-is-top-priority-for-homeland-security-but-one-of-many

Lisa Murkowski today pressed the Secretary of Homeland Security to make the Arctic a priority for the Administration, particularly for the Coast Guard. She got no disagreement.

Homeland Security is the Swiss Army Knife of government departments. It has a huge range of duties, so when its $38 billion budget request came before a Senate panel today, Secretary Jeh Johnson heard a wide range of pleas. Senators emphasized the need to protect the border, encourage trade and improve disaster response. For Sen. Murkowski, though, it’s all about the Arctic. With ocean travel increasing, Murkowski told Johnson the world is looking to the United States for leadership in the region.

Whether it’s cruise ships going over the top, whether it’s container vessels going through the Bering straits, the level of activity that we’re seeing there is unprecedented, and how we handle it is going to be key going forward.

#arctique #états-unis #défense

New DHS Nominee Spent Years Justifying War on Terror’s Excesses
▻http://www.thenation.com/blog/176726/new-homeland-security-chief-spent-years-justifying-war-terrors-excesses

... as AP reports:

As general counsel at the Defense Department during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, [Jeh Johnson] was an aggressive advocate on a number of complex and contentious legal issues. He oversaw the escalation of the use of unmanned drone strikes, the revamping of military commissions to try terrorism suspects rather than using civilian courts and the repeal of the military’s ban on openly gay service members. He also mapped out the legal defense for the American cross-border raid into Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden .

#guerre_contre_le_terrorisme