Intel report i just got. please share
"The Washington Post's mobile homepage and some section fronts on the mobile site were redirected to a site that claimed to be run by the Syrian Electronic Army. The situation has been resolved and no customer information was impacted."
Before the redirect was begun, users were greeted with numerous dialog boxes when they tried to access the site.
"US govt is training the terrorists to kill more Syrians," read one message.
"Saudi Arabia and its allies are killing hundreds of Yemens (sic) people everyday!" according to the next.
And finally: "The media is always lying."
The page then displayed a message saying "Hacked by SEA."
The Syrian Electronic Army also hacked into CNN social media accounts and blogs early last year.
The hacker group has previously targeted companies including Dell, Microsoft and Ferrari, as well as media outlets like the Associated Press, The Guardian and the Financial times.
#2 Cop says "I have weapons on" while arresting peaceful protesters after FERC denies public access to meeting
14th of May, citizens from 8 different areas harmed by gas fracking, gas pipelines, and gas export projects attempted to attend the monthly meeting of FERC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.Many were denied access to the meeting room, so they started chanting in the auditorium. When they were escorted out, cops detained 5 and arrested three.During the first arrest, one cop demanding more personal space saying "I have weapons on."He mentioned his weapons not once but twice. If he thought his weapons were placing him in danger, he should have backed up himself first and foremost, not waited for someone else to comply or refuse to do so. Not doing so further suggests an intent to threaten.
In many jurisdictions, to remind someone that you are armed during any kind of argument or confrontation is enough to sustain a conviction for brandishing the weapon in question.
Police are not supposed to brandish guns, even in this sense of the word, during arrests nonviolent protests!
This meeting was moved to May 14th from May 21 in a failed attempt to evade protesters and silence the public. Previous FERC meetings have featured the ejection of protesters against the rubberstamping of fracked gas projects such as Dominion's gas export facility at Cove Point, MD.In at least one case security guards or cops stole a camera from a protester and threatened to delete video footage. FERC regulations explicitly require them to permit the public to video "open" meetings, but several times in a a row this regulation has been ignored or defied.
#3 Crowd Control Vehicle traveling south from OshKosh, Wi. Utah Added to training area. No further intel.
#4 Crews battle transformer fire at SRP plant in Gilbert
GILBERT, AZ - Officials were able to put out a fire at the SRP San Tan Generating Plant in Gilbert, Arizona. The fire started burning near Warner and Val Vista Roads at 5:30 a.m. on Friday. SRP said the transformer that was on fire carries a large amount of electricity to main transformers in the Valley. According to Gilbert fire, 24 firefighters were called to the scene to battle the heavy smoke and flames. Gilbert fire said mineral oil was burning at the location and that is what caused the dark smoke in the East Valley. Officials were able to use "Class B" foam to put out the fire.
LIVE VIDEO: ABC15 Mornings with team coverage An SRP official said they are not expecting any major power outages due to this fire. No injuries have been reported.
Many viewers from the East Valley have sent ABC15 photos
#5 Engineer Reportedly Heard Saying Derailed Amtrak Was ‘Hit By a Rock or Shot At’ as FBI Joins Investigation
The NTSB says an assistant conductor in the cafe car of the Amtrak train said she heard the engineer talking to a regional rail train engineer who said he’d been “hit by a rock or shot at.” She says she thought she heard the Amtrak engineer say his train had also been struck. During a Friday press conference, the agency said it has asked the FBI to join the investigation. NTSB member Robert Sumwalt says his team has “seen damage to the left hand lower portion of the Amtrak windshield.”
The derailment of the Washington-to-New York train killed eight people. BuzzFeed News reported on Friday that investigators are trying to determine whether “consistent vandalism along a section of the Northeast Corridor – namely people throwing objects at passing trains” may have played a factor in the fatal derailment Prior to the deadly crash on Tuesday, a SEPTA commuter train and a different Amtrak train in the area were reportedly hit by projectiles, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. One of the reported “projectiles” smashed the engineer’s window on one of the trains.Passenger aboard another train in area before deadly Amtrak 188 derailment
There was no information available on Friday that suggests a link between the incidents and the deadly Amtrak derailment.
#6 US Armed Forces holding feastivals nationwide.
#7 Penn State target of cyberattack out of China; some information compromised: University officials
Two cyberattacks have targeted Penn State's College of Engineering, and the university has shut down its network in response. "This was an advanced attack against our College of Engineering by very sophisticated threat actors," said Penn State President Eric Barron in a released letter to the Penn State community. At this time, only usernames and passwords issued by the college are believed to have been compromised, according to a Friday news release from the university. University officials hired Mandiant, a FireEye cybersecurity forensic unit, and an investigation into the threats revealed that at least one of the two attacks was carried out by a person using advanced malware and based in China. University officials had the College of Engineering's computer network disconnected from the Internet and launched a large-scale operation to securely recover all of its systems. The outage is projected to last multiple days, but it is expected to primarily affect the College of Engineering. The FBI first notified Penn State officials of the attack on Nov. 21, 2014, and security experts were called to launch an investigation. The investigation revealed "two previously undetected, sophisticated threat actors on the college's network," according to the release. The earliest known breach dated back to September of 2012. About 18,000 people whose personal information, including Social Security numbers, were discovered in files that were stored on several targeted machines in the college are being contacted by the university. There is no evidence, however, that the information was compromised by the attack, according to the release. The university is offering one year of free credit monitoring to those affected out of caution.
Penn State's Office of the Vice President for Research is also notifying about about 500 public and private research partners who have contracted with the college faculty since September 2012.
