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Breach at U.S. government contractor affected at least 25,000 workers!
A cyber attack at a company that performs background checks for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security compromised data of at least 25,000 government workers, and that number could rise, an agency official said on Friday.
The official told Reuters that DHS plans to notify approximately 25,000 employees that they may be "impacted" by the computer breach at Falls Church, Virginia-based US Investigations Services (USIS) over the coming days.
"More could be notified in coming weeks as we learn more about the breach," said the official, who asked not to be identified by name.
The company disclosed the attack earlier this month, but did not say how many records had been compromised. It did say the intrusion has "all the markings of a state-sponsored attack."
Security experts say the attack was particularly disturbing because files on background checks typically contain highly personal data that foreign intelligence agencies could attempt to exploit to intimidate government workers with access to classified information.
"They would be collecting this data to identify individuals who might be vulnerable to extortion and recruitment," said Dmitri Alperovitch, chief technology officer with cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, which sells intelligence on state-sponsored cyber attacks.
The Department of Homeland Security has suspended all work with USIS since the breach was disclosed as the government conducts a multi-agency investigation to identify the scope of the attack. The FBI has also launched an investigation.
DHS has asked employees to monitor financial information and be suspicious of unusual unsolicited calls, visits and emails from individuals asking about employees or other work-related issues, according to the official.
Individuals who received any suspicious "targeted" communications will be provided credit monitoring services, the official said.
But Alperovitch said credit monitoring would not be of much help because state-sponsored attackers would not be interested in identity theft. Instead, the government should be providing training in areas such as identifying individuals who might try to compromise them through extortion, he said.
USIS says it is the biggest commercial provider of background investigations to the federal government, with over 5,700 employees, and provides services in all U.S. states and territories, as well as abroad.
Officials with USIS, which is a division of privately held Altegrity Inc, could not immediately be reached for comment.
Source: Reuters
Boko Haram Takes Over Police College!
"The police commissioner has dispatched a team to Gwoza to ascertain what really happened and the number of casualty. Of course this will take some time because there is no GSM communication in Gwoza," he said.
News said regular Policemen from various units in Gombe and Nasarawa states as well as the Federal Capital Territory were undergoing specialized training at the school at the time of the attack, .
It is one of the two mobile training schools in the country aside the one in Ila-orangun, Osun State.
A source said even before the attack on Gwoza, authorities at the school had been taking measures following threats of an imminent attack.
"Some of the attackers drove from Gwoza and many others descended from the Mandara Mountain and went straight to the training school," an instructor reportedly said.
"Dozens of them armed with guns, rocket propelled grenades (RPGs) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were given cover and led into the police training facility by five armoured personnel carriers (APC)," he said.
Another police source said there was "fierce battle" between the insurgents and policemen which started at the gate of the training school and thereafter, the fight raged on in all parts of the school.
"The terrorists, dressed in both police and military uniforms, went to the training school in day light and divided themselves into various groups. Some entered the premises by scaling the fence from the rear. Many others attempted going in through the main gate but were confronted.
"The fight at the gate lasted more than an hour before the terrorists blew off the armoured tank that was giving cover to our men at the gate. That was how they succeeded in going into the premises," he said.
It was not clear how many Policemen were undergoing training at the time of the attack but a source said they should be around 350.
Police Force Headquarters spokesman, DCP Emmanuel Ojukwu, confirmed the attack, saying policemen reported the facility being attacked by over 150 insurgents who engaged them in a gun fight.
A report on the BBC Hausa said the insurgents came in three trucks and attacked the college.
"We were sitting by the roadside, when we saw three black TATA vehicles came and went into the college," a resident said.
"Upon seeing that, we then run away into the bush. But we later heard that they (Boko Haram) chased away all the police in the college."
Wednesday, 20 August 2014
Five New Suspected Ebola Cases In Lagos!
Adadevoh, the first confirmed Nigerian to be diagnosed with the EVD contracted the disease while treating the index case, Mr, Patrick Sawyer, at the First Consultants Medical Centre, Lagos where she served as the lead consultant.
Before her death, Adadevoh was one of the three patients left at the Lagos isolation center as of Monday.
Idris, who addressed journalists at the state sacretariat, Alausa, Ikeja, said before the five fresh cases were brought in, the Lagos isolation center had two suspected Ebola patients. He explained that the Liberian, who was one of the five new cases, was allowed to go after getting a clean bill.
In his words: “The fresh suspected cases have increased the number of those in isolation wards from two to six.
“Till date, we have recorded eight suspected cases, five of which were brought in yesterday(Tuesday). We have 12 confirmed cases on the whole out of which five have died and five have been discharged.
“We are currently following up on 213 contacts. Sixty two have completed the 21-day follow-up.”
The commissioner described Adadevoh and other health workers at the FCMC as heroes.
“Yesterday (Tuesday), we recorded the death of the Senior Consultant/Endocrinologist of First Consultant, Dr. Adadevoh.
“She, it was, who took the initiative to intimate the ministry concerning the index case and subsequently to her credit, the moderate containment achieved.” - Dr. Jide Idris.
The commissioner said that the state Ministry of Health was continuing with contact tracing which has been shifted from primary to secondary.
“This is call for vigilance as human transmission is only achieved by physical contact with a person who is acutely and gravely ill from Ebola virus through body fluids such as blood, urine, stool, saliva, breast milk, semen and vomitus.
“Burial ceremonies where mourners, including family members, have direct contact with the corpse have also played a role in the spread. Direct contact with dead bodies should be minimized at this period.” He said.
He insisted that the state was still not convinced that, a controversial trial drug, Nano Silver, could cure the virus.
Federal Government may immortalize Adadevoh:
In Abuja, the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, said the Federal Government was considering immortalizing Dr. Adadevoh, for her bravery and sense of patriotism.
Prof. Chukwu briefed State House correspondents on the highlights of the update on the virus, which he presented at the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan.
Chukwu said but for the efforts of Adadevoh, Sawyer would have escaped from the FCMC and caused a disaster for the country.
His words: “Indeed, she had to physically restrain this infected person from escaping from the hospital when the latter attempted to do so having been communicated that he was ebola positive.
“Indeed, if that index case had escaped from the hospital at that stage, it would have spelt disaster for Nigeria. As many more persons (many of whom) would have been very difficult to track, could have become primary contacts.
“There is no doubt that Dr. Adadevoh was not only a dedicated, committed and competent doctor, she showed rare courage, sense of duty, service and patriotism to her country.” He said.
President Goodluck Jonathan okays N200m for LASG
The minister also announced that President Jonathan had approved the immediate release of N200m to the Lagos State Government as Federal Government’s direct support in the efforts aimed at containing the spread of the EVD.
He added that he had written to a Canadian firm to see whether it could extend another trial drug, TKM Ebola, to Nigeria. Chukwu was joined at the press conference by the Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku; Minister of State, Power, Muhammed Wakil; Minister of State, Health, Khaliru Alhassan; and the Director-General of the Bureau of Public Procurement, Emeka Eze.
The minister said any drug received would be made to pass through the nation’s Health Ethics Committee before it could be administered on any patient.
His words: “Presently, we have not stopped requesting for drug, I have requested from a company in Canada and a lot of Nigerians including the High Commissioner in Nigeria to Canada are making that request to see whether the other drug being manufactured in Canada called TKM Ebola would also be extended to Nigeria.
“It is an experimental drug. For whatever drug and if the patient gives us the consent, I want to stress this point that Nigeria as an organised country, the drug will have to pass through our Health Ethics Committee to approve.
“The minister can decide to deploy it but that is not the way to go, we have to do the correct thing and deal with that committee.
“Even ZMapp has now become Case One Clinical Trial; it has not been subjected to clinical trial. That they are using it to treat patients in US and Liberia is part of the clinical trial.
“Even at that, nothing is yet clear even though it is a fact that two medical doctors are getting better. In Nigeria, the five patients who were treated and got discharged were never given ZMapp. It tells you something. Let’s cooperate and work together, we will surely get there.” He said.
Adding that Nigeria currently had only two established cases of the virus made up of a doctor and a nurse who came into contact with Sawyer, the minister said all those under surveillance were secondary contacts who did not have symptoms of the virus yet.
Chukwu said that the incubation period for that category of people is 42 days from the day the index case was reported. According to him, rumored cases in Kaduna and Kwara states had tested negative.
His words: “As of today(Wednesday), Nigeria has had a total number of 12 cases of Ebola which include the index case and 11 Nigerians who were primary contacts with the one index case.
“Of this 12, the the total number of successful cases who have been discharged stands at five but the total number of deaths including the index case stands at five.
“Currently, the total number of established Ebola cases in Nigeria are two, made up of one doctor and one nurse who had managed the index case and they are presently on treatment at the isolation centre .
“The latest death occurred Tuesday evening and that is the death of the most senior doctor, senior consultant/physician/endrocologist at First Consultants Hospital Lagos, Dr. Adadevoh.”
Chukwu further explained that the five persons discharged after being certified to be Ebola-free no longer constituted danger to the public and hence should not be stigmatized. He added that the Federal Government had received a letter from the Osun State Government asking that it be allowed to host the annual Osun Osogbo Festival.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation, Chief Edem Duke, had already ordered the indefinite postponement of the National Festival of Arts earlier scheduled for September in Ebonyi State. Consultation was also ongoing between the Ministry of Health and the Nigeria Bar Association on the planned NBA general conference.
The United States would this week donate 30 body scanners to the Federal Government as its contribution to fighting the virus.
The equipment which would be used to measure body temperature would be deployed in the nation’s borders.
Chukwu disclosed that a foundation belonging to Mr. Atedo Peterside had offered to assist all private hospitals where cases of the virus had been established to the tune of N100,000 per bed.
The FCMC where the index case was reported had 40 beds, it would get N4m from the foundation.
He said the support become necessary because the affected hospitals, even after their decontamination, could not open for business immediately .
The minister said the Federal Government was also working out ways of assisting the affected hospitals.
He added that theTony Elumelu Foundation had pledged N50m to the cause while the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited had donated an ambulance.
The six months time-frame to conquer the virus as stated by the World Health Organization was not applicable to Nigeria, expressing the hope that the country would soon eradicate Ebola.
Chukwu denied insinuations that the Federal Government sacked resident doctors, saying it was a matter of interpretation. According to him, since the doctors had not been working for about two months, it would be wrong to say that they were sacked.
He likened their case to a situation in aviation that airlines describe as “no show.”
He however promised that the situation would soon be re-appraised so that residency programe could resume.
In his word: “They (resident doctors) were not sacked; it is a matter of interpretation. For example, if someone while still working actively dies or whether that person resigned or was dismissed or retired or had his appointment terminated, they all mean different things in the public service.
“But the end point is that the person is no longer working. I want us to put things in proper perspective. Government did not sack anybody. It is true that they themselves have not been working for almost two months, except those in private hospitals.
“Resident doctors in both federal and state hospitals have not been working for almost two months now and they have not participated in the control of this EVD; they have not played any role.
“So even if government had not taken any decision, they are not there, they are not working and I don’t know why suddenly the media starts taking interest in them. They are not part of this success story.
“What happened is like in the aviation industry where when you buy a ticket and you fail to show up they say ‘no show’ and they even penalise you. So there is ‘no show’ of the resident doctors and even government is still paying them.
“People who are unemployed even some doctors will be asking government a question, is it because we did not have an appointment letter? What is the difference, you are paying people who are not working, we too are not working, why are you not paying us?
“Sometimes we need to think deeply about what we do to ourselves. Government says why can’t we use this period to appraise properly the residency programme and come up with something that can help the country?’’
Chukwu also said in a tweet on Wednesday by his Special Assistant on Media and Communication to the Minister of Health, Dan Nwomeh , that there was no new confirmed case of Ebola in the country.
In an email, Nwomeh referred one of our correspondents to twitter @DanNwomeh, where he explained that Chukwu said that there were needs for “updates and clarifications of (mis)information on the fight against EVD in Nigeria.
The tweet read,“Meanwhile as of today(Wednesday), the status remains the same. Disregard all rumours of new cases please.
“This clarification follows reports of few new cases in Lagos State. This should be disregarded please.
“The Minister of Health reiterates that he has the sole authority to announce confirmed cases of disease epidemics in Nigeria. The minister reassures Nigerians that any new confirmed case of EVD in Nigeria will be announced by his office promptly.
“Any doubtful information on the outbreak of EVD should be verified from the office of the Minister of Health.
“Minister of Health restates that at present, today, now, Nigeria has only two confirmed cases of EVD.”
He also stated that there was no evidence that discharged patients could transmit the disease, adding that a Liberian whose name he did not mention was treated for malaria “having tested negative for EVD.”
UN Ebola coordinator to visit Nigeria, others
Meanwhile, a public health expert coordinating the United Nations fight against Ebola, David Nabarro, has said he would be visiting West Africa to determine the strategies that the global body can deploy to support people, communities and governments affected by the disease.
Nabarro, at news conference, said he would have “intensive interactions” with the World Bank, experts from the U S Centre for Disease Control and Prevention and others before flying to Dakar, Senegal.
He said he would from there travel to Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria.
Source: Punch
Abomination......Teenager Charms Mother To Test Love Potion's Potency!
Otulu community in Delta State was set agog when it was discovered that a teenager, identified as Martins Okolo, allegedly uses love potion to charm his mother into making live with him.
Reports say he got the charm from a native doctor, who instructed him to “test” it so as to ascertain its efficacy.
The love charm was put in the meal of the mother by the boy, which made her go into the boy’s room, and allegedly started caressing him.
Martins was alleged to have taken advantage of his ‘possessed’ mother but the noise attracted his father in the room, who rushed into the room to behold the abomination going on in the room.
The father of teenager confirmed that the incident occurred on the night of Saturday, 16 August and that elders of the community had banished his son from the community, after he confessed that he charmed the mother to make love to her.
Ebola Patient, Dr. Adadevoh, Is Dead!
Sources close to the 58-year-old doctor, said she succumbed to the disease Tuesday evening.
Adadevoh led the medical team at First Consultants Medical Centre, a Lagos-based hospital, that treated Sawyer.
She was said to have fallen into a coma on Monday and despite the valiant battle by the medical team to save her, she could not survive the scourge of the disease.
Her passing brings the total number of deaths from the Ebola virus to five in Nigeria.
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