Morning Security Brief: Gitmo Detainees, IRS Attack Not Terrorism, U.S. No-Fly List, E-Banking Security, & JihadJane Charged

♦ Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) wants Congress to craft legislation that transfers detainees currently held at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but ordered released by a federal judge, into the custody of the Department of Homeland Security, reports The Hill's Blog Briefing Room. "What I think we ought to do, any time a judge grants a habeas petition, we ought to have a place to put that detainee under Homeland Security control so they're not released on the streets of the United States, giving us time to find a place to put them," Graham said.

♦ Joseph Stack's decision to launch a suicide plane attack against an IRS building in Austin, Texas, was not an instance of domestic terrorism, homeland security chief Janet Napolitano said yesterday on a radio show. "When you get to a lone wolf, which is what really the Austin issue was, it's very debatable whether you would put them in the same bucket," Napolitano said, according to The Washington Post.

♦ The Associated Press' Eileen Sullivan takes readers through the four steps that determine whether a suspect finds his way onto the nation's counterterrorism no-fly list. "Managing the list is a high-stakes process," Sullivan reports. "Go too far in one direction and innocent travelers are inconvenienced. Go in the other direction and a terrorist might slip onto an airplane." Since the botched terrorism attack of Christmas, the no-fly list has nearly doubled.

♦ Cybercriminals are plundering the online bank accounts of small and mid-sized businesses, reports CompurterWorld's Jaikumar Vijayan. In the final quarter of 2009, the FDIC reports cybercriminals stole $150 million from small and mid-sized businesses. "In most of those cases, the FDIC said, thieves obtained a business's valid banking login credentials by illegal means," reports Vijayan. "The hackers used the stolen credentials to send money from the accounts to overseas bank accounts via wire transfers." Some businesses, however, are suing their banks for not adequately protecting their money.

♦ Colleen Renee LaRose, a suburbanite from Philadelphia, faces terrorist recruitment charges that could send her to prison for life, reports The Washington Post. LaRose—who went by the nom de guerre JihadJane—"allegedly recruited men and women in the United States, Europe and South Asia to 'wage violent jihad,' according to an indictment issued in Pennsylvania," the Post reports. "She fueled her interests on the Internet over the past few years and used Web sites such as YouTube to post increasingly agitated messages, the court papers said." As JihadJane, LaRose contacted potential recruits in an attempt to find candidates that could blend into American and European societies without suspicion.