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Cadet cyberwarriors retire from Academy to begin second career as "officers"
AIR FORCE ACADEMY, COLORADO (AFPN) — Cadets 1st Class Nick Fritts (left) and Aaron Gross reflect on their long and distinguished careers as hackers near the class wall in the Air Force Academy in Colorado. The cadets will be the first graduates to retire from teenage hacking in science class and will begin their new careers as Air Force cyber officers. In addition to supervising senior enlisted personnel twice their age, these seasoned cyberwarriors will work in a variety of positions as protocol officers, project leaders, office managers, executive officers, resource advisors, and will eventually participate in curriculum studies at Squadron Officer School. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Tim Jenkins)
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Bloodline destroyed for the AOR
CLASSIFIED LOCATION, SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFPN) — Senior Airman Garrett Olivier scans red blood cells into a database for the eighth time at the Blood Transshipment Center in Southwest Asia. The blood was supposed to be packed and sent to Bagram Air Base, in Afghanistan, in support of injured coalition forces, but its shipment was delayed when cyber terrorists repeatedly attacked an Oracle database that is used to track the blood. Airman Olivier is a lab technician with the 379th Expeditionary Medical Group. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Cyberspace Airmen fill vital "in lieu of" taskings
CHARLESTON AIR FORCE BASE, S.C. (AFPN) — Tech. Sgt. Erwin Arguilla and Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Graham follow Catherine Bell while filming a scene for the Lifetime show "Army Wives." Ms. Bell plays Lt. Col. Sarah MacKenzie in the show. The number of soldiers stationed in the U.S. "has diminished to the point that America cannot rely on them to march in parades and fill background movie scenes," explained Maj. Gen. William T. Lord, the commander of Air Force Cyberspace Command. "Cyberspace gives America the flexibility it needs to keep Airmen at their home stations where they are far more useful." Sergeants Arguilla and Graham both work in the 437th Airlift Wing Cyberspace Safety Office. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Katie Gieratz)
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Cyberspace Airmen fill vital "in lieu of" taskings
CHARLESTON AIR FORCE BASE, S.C. (AFPN) — Airmen pose as Soldiers inside a C-17 Globemaster III for a taping of the television show "Army Wives." The number of soldiers stationed in the U.S. "has diminished to the point that America cannot rely on them to march in parades and fill background movie scenes," explained Maj. Gen. William T. Lord, the commander of Air Force Cyberspace Command. "Cyberspace gives America the flexibility it needs to keep Airmen at their home stations where they are far more useful." (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Nicholas Pilch)
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Cyberspace Photoshop® images digitized and recognized
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, OHIO (AFPN) — Senior Airman Chad Kellum takes a moment to check out Air Force Photoshop® images displayed in the "On the Other Side of the Net" exhibit in the Cyberspace Wing of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. Airman Kellum is one of the more than thirty Air Force Photoshop® experts featured in the exhibit. The exhbit will run now through December. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech.Sgt. Cecilio Ricardo)
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AMC team declares fuel supply system "dead" after SCADA attack
CHARLESTON AIR FORCE BASE, SOUTH CAROLINA (AFPN) — Staff Sgt. Richard Smith explains emergency shutdown procedures for flightline fuel pump software to Philip Driskill (center) and Donn Brown (right) of the Air Mobility Command Voluntary Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) Protection Program assessment team. The team rushed to Charleston Air Force Base after terrorists remotely destroyed the base's ability to pump jet fuel. "This fuel supply system is dead and irrepairable," Mr. Driskill said. "It's a shame that SCADA security is voluntary rather than mandated across the Air Force." Sergeant Smith is a fuels hydrants software supervisor for the 437th Logistics Readiness Squadron Fuels Management Flight. Analysis of this attack will help Airmen take ownership in preventing future SCADA attacks. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Jennifer Arredondo)
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Operation Cyber Crown '10 — ready to save lives, defend the base network
SPANGDAHLEM AIR BASE, GERMANY (AFPN) — Airmen 1st Class Johnathan Hollander and Justin Holmes assist a victim during Operation Cyber Crown '10, which teaches Airmen how to survive & operate during a cyber-attack that is targeted at critical infrastructures. Training scenarios included Self-Aid Cyber Care, logic bomb threats, Internet Explosive Devices (IEDs), suicide hacker attacks, and suspicious attachments. Airmen Hollander and Holmes are both from the 52nd Computer Maintenance Operations Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Jenifer Calhoun)
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Officials activate 67th Symantec Defense Group
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, OHIO (AFPN) — Major Gen. Curtis M. Bedke (left), Air Force Research Laboratory commander, presents the 67th Symantec Defense Group flag to Mr. John Thompson, Symantec CEO and 67th SDG commander, during the unit's activation ceremony. Mr. Thompson is the first civilian contractor to take command of an Air Force unit, which will be composed of nearly 300 Symantec employees of various nationalities scattered around the globe whose virus expertise helps to defend Air Force networks. (U.S. Air Force photo/Al Bright)
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Ellsworth first to receive cyberspace incentives
ELLSWORTH AIR FORCE BASE, SOUTH DAKOTA (AFPN) — Contractors pour concrete at a TCP/IP mix plant in preparation for the installation of four new cyber tanks, each capable of holding 60,000 packets of transfer controls. The plant was part of the first contractor partnership between Ellsworth and Dakota ISPs and today saves the base more than one million packets annually. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Kimberly Limrick)
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Cyber Command officials monitor simulated tests
EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, FLORIDA (AFPN) — Lt. Col. Tim Sands (from left), Capt. Jon Smith, and Lt. Col. John Arnold closely monitor a simulated test in the Cyberspace Control Facility at Eglin Air Force Base. The facility's compumetric weapon systems are so dangerous that at least three ranking officers must stand watch even during a simulated test. Enlisted personnel are relegated to menial positions and are restricted from knowing the full might of Air Force Cyberspace Command. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Carrie Kessler)
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