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Navy Contractor Uploaded Drone Secrets Onto Dropbox Personal Account – United States
An electrical engineer contracted by the US Navy took sensitive information about underwater drones it was developing and secretly uploaded it onto his personal Dropbox account, according to prosecutors. Jared Sparks, 35, of Oklahoma, was found guilty this week of trade secret theft and transmission following a trial in Connecticut federal court. He was hit with charges back in November 2016, along with another defense contractor employed by Sparks’ company — LBI Inc. — which began working with the Navy in 2011. Prosecutors said the pair helped design and build underwater drones for the Office of Naval Research, as well as deployable ice buoys used to gather weather data for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “During the course of his employment with LBI, Sparks collaborated with Charles River Analytics (CRA), a Massachusetts-based software company that developed software to be integrated into LBI’s unmanned underwater vehicles,” DOJ officials said in a statement Tuesday.
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American Killed After U.S. Issues Mexico Travel Warnings – Mexico and The United States
Police in Mexico are investigating the murder of an American tourist hit by a stray bullet in Mexico City. Tatiana Mirutenko of San Francisco was leaving a restaurant with her husband and two friends Saturday morning when she was shot. Police say two men on a motorcycle were aiming for a bar bouncer who was at the same restaurant. The bouncer was hit, but survived. Mirutenko, 27, was in Mexico celebrating her first wedding anniversary and had just told her family how safe she felt. The restaurant where Mirutenko was shot was located in an upscale neighborhood. “We’ve traveled to Mexico all of our lives,” Mirutenko’s father, Wasyl, said. “Tania has probably been there at least 30 times.” According to the latest figures from the Mexican government, 2017 was the nation’s deadliest year on record, with more than 25,000 murders. Earlier this year, the U.S. State Department issued a travel ban to five Mexican states, the same warning issued to war-torn countries like Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia.
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Internet Transit Providers Disconnect Infamous “BGP Hijack Factory” – Worldwide
Several Internet transit providers —companies that route global Internet traffic between local ISPs, end users, and data centers— have banded together to ban a fellow transit provider that has carried out at least 130 Internet route (BGP) hijacks in the past few years, most of which, experts say, were with malicious intent. Currently, Internet transit providers such as BICS, GTT, Cogent, Meerfarbig, Hurricane Electric, and IPTelecom, have dropped the offending company, a Portugal-based data center and Internet transit provider named Bitcanal, off their networks. Some of these companies have dropped Bitcanal since 2017, but most of them have stopped collaborating with the Portuguese ISP after a June 25 message posted on the NANOG (North American Network Operators’ Group) mailing list. The message included evidence and a recount of at least 130 incidents during which Bitcanal appears to have intentionally carried out BGP hijacks.
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