Morning Security Brief: New Details on Detroit Bomb, Libyan Resistance, More Security Breaches at CLT, Fed Cyberattacks, & More

♦ The bomb found at a Detroit federal building last week had actually been there for three weeks, according to ABC News. "A contract guard apparently saw this package outside on Feb. 26th," said David Wright, president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 918, which represents employees of the Federal Protective Service. "Against all security protocols -- an unattended package should be treated with extreme caution -- he picked up that package and took it inside basically on the premise of 'lost and found' property. And apparently stored it. That was on Feb. 26. On March 18th, last Friday, someone got the idea to x-ray the package. At that point wires were seen... and it turned out to be a bomb."

♦ Al Qaeda has not infiltrated the resistance against Gadhafi's rule in Libya. "Despite fears that Islamic extremists may be playing a hidden role in the rebellion against Moammar Kadafi, the U.S. intelligence community has found no organized presence of Al Qaeda or its allies among the Libyan opposition, American officials say," according to the Los Angeles Times. "A U.S. intelligence-gathering effort that began shortly after anti-Kadafi forces started seizing towns in eastern Libya last month has not uncovered a significant presence of Islamic militants among the insurgents."

♦ Two more security breaches call into question the security at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport. "The two latest security problems happened late March 11 or early March 12, and again March 14," reports The Charlotte Observer. "In the first incident, airport officials confirm that someone cut a chain-link fence, broke into a construction trailer, and took about $13,000 worth of equipment. Then on March 14, someone got through the airport perimeter and stole about $150 worth of diesel fuel from a contractor." In November, a 16-year-old boy died  when he fell out of an airliner's wheel well over Massachusetts after gaining access to the plane at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport.

♦ Cyberattacks against federal networks increased by 39 percent last year. "There were 41,776 reported cyber incidents of malicious intent in the federal network in 2010 out of a total 107,439 reported to the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team, according to the OMB's fiscal year 2010 report on federal implementation of the Federal Information Security Management Act," reports InformationWeek.com "The number represented a 39% increase over 2009, when 30,000 incidents were reported by the feds, of 108,710 attacks overall, according to the report."

♦ Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) wants Buffalo Niagara International Airport to test new airport security technologies after a recent incident. "His proposal would bring in machines that electronically scans passenger IDs to weed out the fakes, spot aliases and alert authorities to outstanding warrants," reports BuffaloNews.com. "Schumer's call follows a recent security lapse at the airport. Federal agents arrested TSA employee Minnetta Walker earlier this month on charges that she provided information to suspected drug dealers and helped them get past security checkpoints with minimum security."