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Morning Security Brief: Y-12 Update, White House Spearphished, Surveillance Cameras Vandalized, and More
By Carlton Purvis
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Y-12 ends its contract with its security provider. The White House says hackers targeted its military office. Police are looking for a pair vandalizing security cameras on Long Island. And more.

►The Y-12 National Security Complex has ended its contract [1] with security contractor WSI Oak Ridge, two months after an 82-year-old activist entered the complex to vandalize the bunker [2] that holds the nation’s primary supply of bomb-grade uranium. The protesters, ages 57 and 63, were found nearby. Three leaders from WSI-Oak Ridge were fired after the incident. “The move came after the National Nuclear Security Administration, an Energy Department agency, sent a letter on Friday to B&W Y-12 President Charles Spencer saying it had ‘grave concerns’ about his company and WSI providing security at Y-12,” the Huffington Post reports.

►A White House official has confirmed rumors that the White House Military Office was recently a target of hackers [3], but says no data was stolen. An official said on Sunday that the hack used spearphishing [4].

►Police on Long Island are investigating recent vandalism of security cameras [5]. Two suspects are wanted for covering outside surveillance cameras at the United Cerebral Palsy Association and breaking others off their mounts.

►In other news, disappearances increase [6] in Mexico. ♦ The Afghan War by the numbers [7]. ♦ And David Gewirtz discusses that it does and doesn’t mean about cybersecurity that Janet Napolitano never uses email [8].

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[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/30/y-12-national-security-complex_n_1925512.html?utm_hp_ref=green
[2] http://www.securitymanagement.com/news/morning-security-brief-name-wisconsin-shooter-be-released-y-12-breach-update-cybersecurity-inve
[3] http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/81847.html
[4] http://www.securitymanagement.com/news/lure-spearphishing-009052
[5] http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Security-cameras-vandalized-on-Long-Island-3908388.php
[6] http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2012/09/forced-disappearances-increase-in.html?spref=tw
[7] http://hosted.ap.org/interactives/2012/afghanistan-war/
[8] http://www.zdnet.com/if-the-head-of-homeland-security-refuses-to-use-email-is-she-a-luddite-7000004999/