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Don't play with firewalls
HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE, HAWAII (AFPN) — Firewall fighters from the 15th Cyberspace Engineer Squadron Firewall Protection Flight train on a legacy sewage pump station at Hickam Air Force Base. Safety officials remind people it doesn't take much of a hacker to turn this worst-case scenario into reality when people don't pay attention to the security of the Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) equipment that guards vital Air Force sewage treatment plants. "An entire air base could be flooded with raw sewage," said one official, "or chemical weapons like chlorine and flourine could be injected into an air base's potable water supply," if careless people fail to change the default passwords on SCADA computers. (Courtesy photo)
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Self defense course kicks way into training
FORT DIX, NEW JERSEY (AFPN) — Master Sgt. Jack Smith teaches students in the Advanced Compumetrics Skills Training Course how to disarm an attacker who is holding a computer mouse in Linux Internet Network-override Engagement training during a class session at the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center. LINE training is one of the newest self-defense techniques offered at the center. Sergeant Smith is a 421st Computer Training Squadron instructor. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Scott T. Sturkol)
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Exercise Primitive Computing '10 teaches Airmen to survive
INTERNET AIR FORCE BASE, .MIL (AFPN) — Staff Sgt. Tobi Erskine "multitasks" during Exercise PRIMITIVE COMPUTING, which teaches Air Force personnel how to survive & operate during a cyber attack. Instant messaging is replaced with a primitive IM device such as a wired telephone, and keyboards are replaced with a primitive I/O device such as a ballpoint pen. A paper-based news website (visible in foreground) is distributed to Airmen in lieu of CNN.com. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Justin Goodrich)
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Cyber 'chute' to safety
DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, DE (AFPN) — Master Sgt. Thomas Scheving begins his descent in a Baker Life Chute from the catwalk of the Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, cyber traffic control tower during a cyber drill. The chute was installed to allow controllers a safe descent to the ground in the event of a cyber attack. Once in the chute, the person keeps his body straight, hands overhead, and controls the rate of descent with foot pedals. Sergeant Scheving is the cyber tower controller with the 436th Cyber Operations Support Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Kevin Wallace)
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Afghan children get high-tech gear for school
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (AFPN) — Tech. Sgt. Shelly Ward distributes mousepads, computer security ethics pamphlets, and other essential school supplies to children at a school in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan. Sergeant Ward and other volunteers from the Cyber Security Transition Command volunteered in the community relations trip sponsored by coalition cyberspace security forces. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Stacia Zachary)
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Cyber Team streams video at Busch Series Race
IVO NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, NEVADA (AFPN) — The United States Air Force Cyber Drill Team autographs AF cyberspace recruiting posters after they streamed a near-realtime video feed of their performance at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas, Nev. The Cyber Team is the traveling component of the Air Force Cyber Guard and tours Air Force bases world wide showcasing the precision of today's Air Force to recruit, retain, and inspire Airmen for the Air Force cyberspace mission. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Rusti Caraker)
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Internet security Airmen protect Iraq's combat cyberpower hub
BALAD AIR BASE, IRAQ (AFPN) — Airman 1st Class Marquis Garvin uses a man-portable computer virus detector to decontaminate a Symantec contractor who had just returned from cleaning up an infected network server at Balad Air Base, Iraq. Airman Garvin is assigned to the 332nd Internet Security Forces Squadron; the Symantec worker's face & name cannot be revealed for security reasons. Iraqi insurgents have placed a high priority on killing Symantec employees who are vital to the success of coalition forces. "I know I'm risking my life just by being here," the Symantec contractor said, "but if I can stop one computer virus from falling into the insurgents' hands, then the risk is worth it..." (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Michael R. Holzworth)
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Working dog teams search, patrol cyberspace together
AL UDEID AIR BASE, QATAR (AFPN) — Tech. Sgt. Bob Weigold walks his Internet explosive detection dog, Tivo, along the network perimeter of the base firewall at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. Tivo is specially trained to sniff out Internet Explosive Devices (IEDs). Sergeant Weigold is the 379th Cyberspace Security Forces Squadron Military Working Dog Section element leader. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Frank Hatcher)
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Nuclear warhead antivirus update
F.E. WARREN AIR FORCE BASE, WY (AFPN) — First Lt. Matthew Bejcek (front) and Capt. Mark Olenick update the antivirus software in multiple Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles from their launch control center. They are missile network crew members with the 90th Cyberspace Wing at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming. The nuclear warhead antivirus software must be updated every 15 minutes to guard against "zero-day" computer security threats... (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Javier Cruz Jr.)
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Airmen capture insurgents' mainframe, CD-ROM duplicator
UNDISCLOSED LOCATION, IRAQ (AFPN) — Airmen assigned to the 332nd Internet Ordnance Disposal Squadron display a mainframe computer and a CD-ROM duplicator that was captured in a cyber-raid outside of Baghdad. "A suicide hacker could have used this computer equipment to cause a lot of death and destruction," said one official... (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Jamie Train)
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