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The Hill
March 26,
2015
The
government is pumping up financial incentives for people to help get cyber
criminals in front of U.S. judges. The State Department on Thursday revealed
two rewards totaling up to $3 million for information on two alleged cyber
crooks, Roman Olegovich Zolotarev and Konstantin Lopatin, who are thought to be
in Russia. The U.S. indicted the two for helping operate Carder.su, “a global,
Internet-based criminal enterprise,” the State Department said.
The
Christian Science Monitor
March 25,
2015
Dozens of
businesspeople filed off luxury tour buses, huddling around the Army colonel
who commands the sprawling Fort George G. Meade, Md., base that’s home to the
National Security Agency and the US military's cyberwarfare command. He told
them protecting the country from adversaries over computer networks is now just
as crucial as on land, in air, sea, and space. It was hard to hear him over the
sound of bulldozers and cranes clanking and screeching, building what will
become a 750,000 square foot data center.
Dozens of Commonwealth public servants were told by their bosses that their jobs were to be axed in a heartless April Fools' Day prank in Canberra. The workers arrived at their desks at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on April 1 to be confronted with an "announcement" on a big office TV screen that their workplace was being broken up and moved to Melbourne. Passport to 1 AprilHumour