http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Sacramento Wed, 22 May 2013 07:35:05 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Sacramento Mon, 20 May 2013 21:03:11 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=84e_1369097872 Delaypat I thought I would share this awesome event I attended this weekend in Sacramento, Ca. 3000 people all drinking craft beer and having a great time in the sun. ENJOY!!! I know I say AWESOME, WAYYYY TOO MUCH! http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=84e_1369097872 Delaypat Drinking Beer With 3000 People At The West Coast Brew Fest 2013 Delaypat, Beer, Brew fest, Brew, Drinking, Awesome, Fun Fri, 17 May 2013 15:17:40 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=792_1368818005 dcmfox SACRAMENTO (CBS13) - A Sacramento surgeon has been reprimanded by the state medical board for suggesting a patient try oral sex to improve her gag reflex. The unnamed patient was hesitant to undergo an upper-gastrointestinal endoscopy. The procedure would require a scope going from someone's mouth into their intestinal tract. She told Sacramento Dr. J. Peter Zegarra that she "gags at the dentist" and didn't want the procedure. That's when the doctor suggested in front of her husband, "She should be practicing twice a week on her husband by giving him (oral sex) to address her gagging reflex." "This constituted unprofessional conduct, and so this is a message that this probably wasn't appropriate," said Cassandra Hockenson, with the California Medical Board. "A more appropriate response should have come with regards to dealing with her gag reflex issues." Even if it was a playful suggestion, the medical board says that's no defense. We stopped by Dr. Zegarra's Sacramento-area office for comment and was told he was in surgery. He never got back to us. But the agency that oversees complaints against doctors is glad the patient reached out to them after hearing the shocking suggestion. "We encourage people to come forward, and I applaud her for coming forward and saying something," Hockenson said. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=792_1368818005 dcmfox Doctor In Trouble For Recommending A Patient Give A Lot Of Blowjobs To Help Gag Reflex doctor, patient, blowjobs, gag, reflex, trouble Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:56:50 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f82_1367297334 CatEatDog Instead of admitting to a mistake, the fat cunts who work for the California Child Protective Services (CPS) are keeping their sticky fingers on the Sacramento baby they kidnapped. The judge should have beat the shit out of CPS, ordered them off the case, yelled at them for being cunts. County Counsel (another fat cunt), representing CPS, should have advised CPS to drop this case, but the fat CPS cunts want to show no weakness, even though they are fucking over a kid and his family to protect their asses. The judge could have told the parties during negotiation he was throwing the case out, but instead he gave some backing to the government's kidnapping this baby. What a pussy! The cops should get hammered too, for beating up the father and stealing his keys. They could have just talked to the guy, showed some compassion. The father obviously is a solid dude. This case is so bad, it really boggles the mind. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f82_1367297334 CatEatDog Court Result - Parents Get Rights Back, but California Child Protective Service Keeps Their Fingers on <span class="highlight">Sacramento</span> Baby kidnapping, baby, sacramento Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:16:16 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=022_1367294872 SAPD_HRT A Sacramento family was torn apart after a 5-month-old baby boy was taken from his parents following a visit to the doctor. The young couple thought their problems were behind them after their son had a scare at the hospital, but once they got home their problems got even worse. It all began nearly two weeks ago, when Anna Nikolayev and her husband Alex took their 5-month-old boy Sammy to Sutter Memorial Hospital to be treated for flu symptoms, but they didn't like the care Sammy was getting. For example, one day Anna asked why a nurse was giving her son antibiotics. "I asked her, for what is that? And she's like, 'I don't know.' I'm like, 'you're working as a nurse, and you don't even know what to give to my baby for what,'" Anna explained. According to Anna, a doctor later said Sammy shouldn't have been on the antibiotics. Anna said Sammy suffers from a heart murmur and had been seeing a doctor at Sutter for regular treatment since he was born. After Sammy was treated for flu symptoms last week, doctors at Sutter admitted him to the pediatric ICU to monitor his condition. After a few days, Anna said doctors began talking about heart surgery. "If we got the one mistake after another, I don't want to have my baby have surgery in the hospital where I don't feel safe," Anna said. Anna argued with doctors about getting a second opinion. Without a proper discharge, she finally took Sammy out of the hospital to get a second opinion at Kaiser Permanente. "The police showed up there. They saw that the baby was fine," Anna said. "They told us that Sutter was telling them so much bad stuff that they thought that this baby is dying on our arms." Medical records from the doctor treating Sammy at Kaiser Permanente said the baby as clinically safe to go home with his parents. The doctor added, "I do not have concern for the safety of the child at home with his parents." "So police saw the report from the doctors, said, 'okay guys, you have a good day,' and they walked away," Anna said. Anna said the next day police and child protective services showed up on her doorstep. Alex Nikolayev said he met them outside a short time after they arrived. "I was pushed against the building, smacked down. I said, 'am I being placed under arrest?' He smacked me down onto the ground, yelled out, 'I think I got the keys to the house,'" Alex said. Then police let themselves inside. On home video shot with a camera Anna set up herself, police can be seen entering her front door on Wednesday. "I'm going to grab your baby, and don't resist, and don't fight me ok?" a Sacramento police officer said in the video. "He's like, 'okay let your son go,' so I had to let him go, and he grabbed my arm, so I couldn't take Sammy. And they took Sammy, and they just walked away," Anna said. When News10 spoke with police, they said talk to CPS; CPS did not say much about the case. Just before 6 p.m. Thursday, Anna said that a CPS social worker told her, the reason they took Sammy is because of severe neglect; however, the social worker didn't elaborate on that neglect. Sutter Memorial was asked to comment on the story, but the hospital said the case was with CPS and law enforcement and they would have to comment on the case. CPS said they can't specifically comment on this case because of privacy law, but CPS spokesperson Laura McCasland said, "We conduct a risk assessment of the child's safety and rely heavily on the direction of health care providers." "It seems like parents have no right whatsoever," Alex said. On Thursday, Anna and Alex were allowed a one hour visitation with Sammy; he's currently in protective custody at Sutter Memorial Hospital. "His smile, it's everything for me," Anna said. "I was so happy to see him." Anna and Alex have a court hearing scheduled for Monday. "We did everything," Anna said. "We went from one hospital to another. We just wanted to be safe, that he is in good hands." News10/KXTV http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=022_1367294872 SAPD_HRT <span class="highlight">Sacramento</span> couple fights to get their baby boy back from authorities Baby, CPS, Taken, Thu, 02 May 2013 23:43:35 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1d1_1367552288 CatEatDog An iron curtain has fallen between the people and the Child Protective Services (CPS). CPS uses laws created to protect family privacy to keep their tracks covered. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1d1_1367552288 CatEatDog <span class="highlight">Sacramento</span> Baby - California Legislator Digging Into Child Protective Services kidnapping, government Sat, 27 Apr 2013 17:02:58 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=236_1367096298 MikeWayneTx The police enter the house and take the baby because the parents wanted a second opinion before a heart surgery was done. Apparently, if you don't like the hospital staff and leave in California they will send the police after you. I have left hospitals in Texas with my child and never had a problem if I wanted a second opinion. What are your opinions on this video liveleakers? http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=236_1367096298 MikeWayneTx <span class="highlight">Sacramento</span> police seize baby Police, Baby Seized, California, Police State Mon, 13 May 2013 21:37:54 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a84_1368494222 GitErDoneDammit SACRAMENTO (CBS13) - A state senator is concerned about the possibility of someone creating a gun from a 3-D printer. Sen. Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) is looking at how to regulate working guns made by 3-D printers. The printers can create objects from a blueprint by layering material in slices, typically around a tenth of a millimeter in thickness. The printers start at around $1,000 and typically fall around $2,000. Video showing a plastic gun being test-fired appeared online last weekend, prompting Yee's fears. He's concerned that just about anyone with access to those cutting-edge printers can arm themselves. "Terrorists can make these guns and do some horrible things to an individual and then walk away scott-free, and that is something that is really dangerous," said Yee. He said while this new technology is impressive, it must be regulated when it comes to making guns. He says background checks, requiring serial numbers and even registering them could be part of new legislation that he says will protect the public. Yee added, "This particular gun has no trace whatsoever." Manuel Hernandez, of M &amp;amp;amp; J Gun Trade in Sacramento, said any legislation putting limits on making 3-D printed guns only hurts law-abiding citizens. "It's just another way to try and block gun owners," Hernandez said. Comments in and around on the Senator Leland Lee decision...... http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1e6v4w/senator_leland_yee_wants_3d_printers_to_be/ Power to the People: Black Eyed Peas http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a84_1368494222 GitErDoneDammit Kinko Gun...Power To The People...Dialogue Begins....Kinda-Sorta 3D Printer,Kinko Gun,Law,Leland Lee, Fri, 10 May 2013 21:03:17 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6ea_1368234117 SAPD_HRT Nicotine patches apparently just aren't enough for Etta Mae Lopez. The 31-year-old woman allegedly slapped a Sacramento County sheriff's deputy across the face this week to kick her cigarette habit by getting herself thrown into jail. Deputy Matt Campoy was able to accommodate the woman's unorthodox method for smoking cessation, booking her into the smoke-free county jail on suspicion of battery on a peace officer. Campoy said he was minding his own business, about 4:20 p.m. Tuesday when he exited the I Street entrance of the main jail at the end of his watch. The area outside the jail usually has a mix of people, including family waiting to see imprisoned loved ones and inmates just released from custody. The uniformed deputy didn't think much of it when a woman moved into his path from his right side. "I stepped to the left, she stepped to my left," Campoy said. "I stepped to the right, she stepped to my right. I stepped to the left again and she suddenly stepped into me and slapped my face." Campoy was stunned. The unexpected slap was a bit surreal, he said. He grabbed Lopez's hands and put her into a control hold before guiding her into the jail lobby. When he released the control hold to have her sit on a bench, she slapped his arm, he said. Campoy handcuffed the 5-foot 1-inch Lopez and got assistance from other deputies. He then took her back into the jail proper where he said Lopez confided that the slap was meant to get his attention and hopefully lead to smoke-free incarceration. "She knew that the only way to quit smoking was to go to jail because they don't allow tobacco in the jail," said Campoy. "She waited all day for a deputy to come out because she knew if she assaulted a deputy she would go to jail and be inside long enough to quit her smoking habit." Authorities said Lopez also told deputies she had been outside the jail waiting for a uniformed deputy to come by for so long that she got hungry and had to go get something to eat -- and then she had returned. Some officers exit the jail in civilian clothes, but Campoy changes out about a block away so he was in uniform. "She wanted to make sure that who she struck was an officer," said Campoy. It's an unorthodox way to kick tobacco cravings to be sure, instead of using will-power or nicotine patches. "I've been telling everybody that I have a new Irish name: Nick O'Derm," said Campoy. Kidding aside, Campoy wonders what would have happened if Lopez hadn't been arrested for slapping. "Would it be a little more injury? What level of assault would she take it to?" he said. "We are hopeful she will be in jail for a long enough time to kick the habit or not want to assault anybody." http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6ea_1368234117 SAPD_HRT Woman Allegedly Hit California Deputy to Go to Jail Woman, Slaps, Cop, Quit, Smoking Thu, 09 May 2013 11:05:54 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f8d_1368111801 cajunmojo Last week, the story of parents who had their baby seized by police went viral. Video shows Sacramento Police Department officers entering the home of Anna and Alex Nikolayev without a warrant and saying they were going to "grab" the baby and advising the parents not to resist or fight. The Russian couple's lawyer though believes law enforcement and child protective services overstepped their bounds. Now imagine how difficult this portion of the case could be without video evidence. Image if the video and pictures of police taking the baby away were deleted. Carlos Miller, who runs the Photography Is Not a Crime blog, has had content on his recording equipment deleted a couple times by law enforcement, he believes. And he has a message for those who have had pictures or video deleted by cops or accidentally by themselves: "It doesn't completely disappear." In fact, Miller last year was acquitted from all charges after he was able to recover deleted video showing he was not resisting arrest or breaking any other laws. He is now trying to obtain enough evidence to bring a case against the Miami police department and the individual he believes wrongfully took his camera and deleted its content. Everything Miller learned about recovering deleted images and video was self-taught from the Web and help from a tech friend. The most important thing to know, he said, is to not take any more photos or video if you believe your content has been deleted. "Once you realize that video has been deleted, put your camera aside and figure out a way to recover it," he said. There are programs that can help you recover such content. Pictures are easier to get back than video due to the size. For photos stored on Millers Sandisk memory card, the program recommended that he used is RescuePro. Video was a bit tricker because it took longer to sift through all the recovered content to find the portions he was looking for, but he used the program PhotoRec. Just recently Alex Heid with Federal Jack and HackMiami went through this process when his own video, which deleted allegedly by Miami police upon his arrest. He details in this video how he recovered his footage: Even better than going through any of this process though is to not put yourself in a situation where your footage could be deleted in the first place. The easiest way to protect against this is by password protecting your phone, which is the device Miller said the average citizen would likely be using to film or take pictures these days. Another recommendation Miller had was to consider using an app that would automatically begin transferring pictures and video into cloud storage. On a PINAC forum is a discussion on just these types of programs. One user with an Android phone suggests Bambuser and Dropbox. "Dropbox will automatically upload video (or pictures) when off button is pushed or recording stopped. Just make sure the app is running in the background. Not live streaming, will only upload after recording stopped," rick wrote. "Bambuser is live streaming and will continue to record and upload even after off button is pushed. Unsent data is saved to phone and can be uploaded later to complete video record. As always, test these apps under different situations and know their ins and outs." Dropbox, another user cautions though, won't upload video on iOS devices unless the user is connected to WiFi, but it will do so through a data package on Android. So, whether you accidentally hit the trash button or if your photos and video were purposefully deleted, these are methods you can recover or preserve your data. Miller's ultimate goal is to change a mentality he thinks some officers have when it comes to "creating their own truth." "Cops have to rethink that they can't just create their own truth anymore," Miller said. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f8d_1368111801 cajunmojo WANT TO KNOW HOW TO RECOVER DELETED PHOTOS AND VIDEO FROM YOUR DEVICES? Recover Deleted Photos, Dropbox , Alex Nikolayey Sun, 05 May 2013 03:18:37 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=592_1367737861 fox29fox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalistani_groups http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalistan_movement Aghast at the role of pro-Khalistan elements in the launch of a Sikh Congressional Caucus last week, the Indian government has cautioned the Obama administration and US lawmakers who joined the group against helping revive what was a violent separatist affair that has largely faded away. Indian officials have been briefing US lawmakers about the almost-defunct movement and its bloody history after discovering that the principal movers of the Sikh caucus were Khalistani activists trying to revive separatist sentiments. The Indian effort to sensitize lawmakers to New Delhi's concerns began even before the launch of the caucus, but much to the Indian embassy's surprise and dismay, pro-Khalistani Sikhs succeeded in getting the caucus off the ground. In the process, they are said to have sidelined mainstream nationalist Sikhs. Some 30 US lawmakers, many of them first time legislators not aware of the violent history and background of the Khalistan issue, have signed up for the Sikh Caucus, which is believed to the first ethnic and religion-based caucus on the Hill. But what has distressed New Delhi is that signatories include veteran lawmakers such as Frank Pallone , a New Jersey democrat who has been a long-time friend of India and a leading member of the India Caucus. Indian officials surmise that Pallone and many others have been misled by the separatists into believing that they were backing a besieged group that was fighting ethnic profiling and racial discrimination, particularly after the Oak Creek shooting in Wisconsin in which a white supremacist killed six people in a Sikh Gurdwara. American Sikhs have also been fighting employment bias and discrimination in military against turbaned enlisters. While Indian officials acknowledge that many of the Sikh grievances are legitimate, they say the issues are being used as a cover for potentially reinvigorating the Khalistan movement. Although no mention was made of Khalistan at the launch of the caucus, some prime movers behind the caucus did not hide their pro-Khalistani affiliation. Indian officials are cautioning their US counterparts of such murky associations, particularly in the context of the Boston bombing in which Chechen separatist sympathisers who were seemingly integrated into American society, carried out terrorist attacks inside the US. They are concerned that unbridled Khalistani activism in the U.S could come to haunt New Delhi later on. While many of the Sikh grievances are real and deserve attention, the Indian government, currently headed by a Sikh, seems to believe these are best lobbied by the India caucus rather than a separate ethno-religious caucus. What set alarm bells ringing was the discovery that one of the principal movers of the Sikh caucus is an associate of Khalid Awan, a Pakistan-Canadian who has been convicted for providing material support and resources to the Khalistan Commando Force (KCF) and related terrorism charges and is serving time in a U.S prison. The same principal was also involved in a bank robbery in Ludhiana. In a little-reported trial of Awan, the US government offered recordings of his prison telephone calls to Paramjit Singh Panjwar in Pakistan, in which Awan spoke of recruiting new members for the KCF and admitted having had sent hundreds of thousands of dollars to KCF in the past. A US district court later determined that Awan's crimes were "intended to promote federal crimes of terrorism," and imposed on him a sentence of 14 years' imprisonment, which he is serving in Terra Haute, Indiana. The Indian alert is believed to have had a salutary effect on at least one lawmaker, Indian-American Congressman Ami Bera , who is said to have backed out of joining the caucus. Bera's 7th Congressional district in California surrounding Sacramento has a large Sikh population, and word among Sikh activists initially was that he would sign up. Indian officials believe many other lawmakers have joined the caucus for similar reasons in a state where there are many wealthy Sikhs, only some of who still suffer from the Khalistan hangover. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=592_1367737861 fox29fox India warns US of move to revive Khalistan through Sikh caucus khalistan,terrorist,india,usa,america,punjab Fri, 03 May 2013 00:44:42 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3a4_1367555503 RaiderNations http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-guns-20130502,0,5559910.story California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill providing $24 million to clear the backlog of weapons owned by people who acquired them legally but are now disqualified because of criminal convictions, restraining orders or serious mental illness. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times / February 10, 2013) By Patrick McGreevy, Los Angeles TimesMay 1, 2013, 9:05 p.m. SACRAMENTO - The state will send dozens of new agents into California neighborhoods this summer to confiscate nearly 40,000 handguns and assault rifles from people barred by law from owning firearms, officials said Wednesday. The plan received the green light Wednesday, when Gov.Jerry Brown signed legislation providing $24 million to clear the backlog of weapons known to be in the hands of about 20,000 people who acquired them legally. They were later disqualified because of criminal convictions, restraining orders or serious mental illness. The bill is the first of more than a dozen gun measures introduced by California lawmakers after the December massacre of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. "This bipartisan bill makes our communities safer by giving law enforcement the resources they need to get guns out of the hands of potentially dangerous individuals," said Evan Westrup, a spokesman for the governor. California is the only state in the nation to operate a database that cross-references gun owners with those who are subsequently disqualified from owning firearms. But budget cuts have prevented the state Department of Justice from keeping up with the list, which grows by 15 to 20 names every day, officials said. The new funds will allow the department to hire 36 additional special agents and support staff, with the first officers expected to hit the streets in July, said Lynda Gledhill, a spokeswoman for Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris. The money comes from a surplus in fees paid for background checks by people purchasing guns. The new agents will work primarily in cities including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, Fresno and Riverside, which have requested additional help, Gledhill said. The effort is expected to take three years. "Our reinvestment in this tracking program gives us the opportunity to confiscate" guns from those who should not have them, said state Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), author of the legislation. Opponents of the measure include the National Rifle Assn. of America and Sam Paredes, executive director of Gun Owners of California, who said any confiscation campaign should be paid for by the state general fund. "Going after criminals is a good thing, but the way they are paying for it is grossly unfair," Paredes said. "They are putting the entire burden on the back of law-abiding gun purchasers." Paredes said some gun owners may not know that they are disqualified from possessing guns for reasons that include, for example, a restraining order in a domestic violence case. He said an education campaign urging people to turn in weapons would be less costly and safer than sending out armed agents. Some Republican lawmakers voted against the bill, SB 140, because they too objected to tapping money not intended for the new purpose. Other Republican legislators supported the allocation, helping to give it two-thirds approval in both houses. Of the gun owners on the prohibition list, 32% were disqualified by conviction on a felony or a violent misdemeanor, Gledhill said. About 30% were disqualified for mental health reasons, including court determinations that they are dangerous; 20% are the subject of an active restraining order for cases including domestic violence; 18% are wanted by authorities for violent crimes. The existing squad of 33 special agents investigated nearly 4,000 people and seized about that same number of weapons, including 300 assault weapons, during the last two years, officials said. "California is leading the nation in a common-sense effort to protect public safety by taking guns away from dangerous, violent individuals who are prohibited by law from owning them," Harris said in a prepared statement. The California Legislature is still considering measures that would require ammunition purchasers to pay for a permit, close loopholes on the existing assault rifle ban and impose a nickel-per-bullet tax to pay for mental health programs. The Democratic governor, who has said he owns guns, has not taken a public position on the remaining bills. patrick.mcgreevy@latimes.com http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3a4_1367555503 RaiderNations Bad boys, bad boys what you gonna do when they come for you? Guns, police, crazy, mental health, WTF Thu, 02 May 2013 02:09:17 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=27c_1367474517 plokiju Among defense contractors, QinetiQ North America (QQ/) is known for spy-world connections and an eye- popping product line. Its contributions to national security include secret satellites, drones, and software used by U.S. special forces in Afghanistan and the Middle East. Former CIA Director George Tenet was a director of the company from 2006 to 2008 and former Pentagon spy chief Stephen Cambone heads a major division. Its U.K. parent was created as a spinoff of a government weapons laboratory that inspired Q's lab in Ian Fleming's James Bond thrillers, a connection QinetiQ (pronounced kin-EH-tic) still touts. QinetiQ's espionage expertise didn't keep Chinese cyber- spies from outwitting the company. In a three-year operation, hackers linked to China's military infiltrated QinetiQ's computers and compromised most if not all of the company's research. At one point, they logged into the company's network by taking advantage of a security flaw identified months earlier and never fixed. "We found traces of the intruders in many of their divisions and across most of their product lines," said Christopher Day, until February a senior vice president for Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ)'s Terremark security division, which was hired twice by QinetiQ to investigate the break-ins. "There was virtually no place we looked where we didn't find them." 'Major Embarrassment' The lengthy spying operation on QinetiQ jeopardized the company's sensitive technology involving drones, satellites, the U.S. Army's combat helicopter fleet, and military robotics, both already-deployed systems and those still in development, according to internal investigations. Jennifer Pickett, a spokesman for QinetiQ, declined to comment as part of a general policy not to discuss security measures. "God forbid we get into a conflict with China but if we did we could face a major embarrassment, where we try out all these sophisticated weapons systems and they don't work," said Richard Clarke, former special adviser to President George W. Bush on cyber security. The spies' trail at QinetiQ begins in late 2007, and so do the company's mistakes. QinetiQ's travails are documented in hundreds of unvarnished e-mails and dozens of reports that were never meant to be public, part of a cache that was leaked in 2011 by the group Anonymous after it hacked HBGary Inc., a Sacramento-based computer security firm hired by QinetiQ the previous year. Team Outmaneuvered The e-mails and reports are authentic, according to former HBGary executives and Day. Day agreed to an interview limited to the investigation's findings because the documents had already become public. By reviewing the documents with security experts and interviewing more than a dozen people familiar with the QinetiQ breaches, Bloomberg News reconstructed how the hackers outmaneuvered QinetiQ's internal security team and at least five companies brought in to help salvage the situation. Headquartered in a glass-and-steel office tower in McLean, Virginia, QinetiQ's U.S. subsidiary is a boutique arms maker, less than one-tenth the size of industry giants like Lockheed or Northrop Grumman Corp. (NOC) It has specialized in fields expected to grow as the rest of the Pentagon budget shrinks, including drones, robotics, software and high-speed computing. A 2012 want ad for QinetiQ's Albuquerque facility solicited a programmer to work on a "satellite-based global monitoring system" and limited candidates to those with top secret clearances only. Stolen Data In December 2007, an agent from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service contacted the company's small security team and notified them that two people working in McLean were losing confidential data from their laptop computers, according to an internal report. The agency had stumbled upon the stolen data as part of another investigation and the alert was a courtesy. The San Diego-based agent didn't provide the identity of the hackers, who had been tracked by U.S. intelligence since at least 2002, or the crucial -- but classified -- fact that they were hitting other defense contractors. The company wouldn't find out who its attackers were for two more years. QinetiQ put strict limits on the investigation. "They just felt like it was this limited little thing, like they'd picked up some virus," said Brian Dykstra, a forensics expert based in Columbia, Maryland, which QinetiQ hired to conduct the investigation. Security Holes More investigations uncovered more security holes. In 2008, a security team found that QinetiQ's internal corporate network could be accessed from a Waltham, Massachusetts, parking lot using an unsecured Wi-Fi connection. The same investigation discovered that Russian hackers had been stealing secrets from QinetiQ for more than 2 1/2 years through a secretary's computer, which they had rigged to send the data directly to a server in the Russian Federation, according to an internal investigation. QinetiQ's executives in the meantime fretted about rising costs. "You could spend all your resources chasing such things as this," William Ribich, the former president of QinetiQ's Technology Solutions Group, said in an interview in January. Ribich, who retired in November 2009, shortly after the discovery of a major data theft, said he needed to balance the uncertain risk that the hackers could use what they stole against a growing shopping list of security products and consulting fees. "You finally have to reach a point where you say 'let's move on,"' he said. Vast Control China's hackers in fact zeroed in first on Ribich's division, based in Waltham, and specifically on QinetiQ's drone and robotics technology. Internal reports leaked by Anonymous chronicle a breach at TSG in February 2008, followed by another attempt in March of that year. By 2009, the hackers had almost complete control over TSG's computers, the documents show. Over one stretch in 2009, the spies spent 251 days raiding at least 151 machines, including laptops and servers, cataloging TSG's source code and engineering data. The hackers dribbled data out of the network in small packets to avoid detection, managing to get away with 20 gigabytes before they were finally stopped, according to an internal damage assessment. The stolen cache included highly sensitive military technology and was equivalent in size to 1.3 million pages of documents or more than 3.3 million pages of Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Secrets 'Gone' "All their code and trade secrets are gone," Phil Wallisch, senior security engineer at HBGary, wrote in an e-mail after being briefed on the loss by the company. It was about to get much worse. While QinetiQ's team tripped from crisis to crisis, the hackers honed their skills. They were next spotted in March 2010, after signing on with the stolen password of a network administrator based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Darren Back. The hackers logged on through the company's remote access system, just like any employee. It was a trick they were able to use only because QinetiQ didn't employ two-factor authentication, a simple device that generates a unique code employees enter, along with their usual password, anytime they work from home. The problem had been spotted months earlier in a security review. Mandiant, which worked on several TSG breaches and performed the test, recommended a relatively inexpensive fix. The advice was ignored, according to a person familiar with the report. Digital Secrets In four days of furious activity, the hackers rifled at least 14 servers, taking particular interest in the company's Pittsburgh location, which specialized in advanced robotics design. The Comment Group also used Back's password to raid the computer of QinetiQ's Huntsville, Alabama-based technology control officer, which contained an inventory of highly sensitive weapons-systems technology and source code throughout the company. The spies had got their hands on a map to all of QinetiQ's digital secrets. They also had begun to broaden their attack. As evidence mounted that the hackers had moved to divisions beyond TSG, QinetiQ hired two outside firms in April 2010 -- Terremark (TMRK) and a relatively new start up called HBGary, headed by Greg Hoglund, a former hacker turned security expert. HBGary installed specialized software on more than 1,900 computers, then scanned the machines for snippets of malicious code. Glitches surfaced almost immediately. The software wouldn't load on at least a third of the computers, and even where it did, it missed some that the hackers' spyware was known to have infected, according to internal HBGary e-mails. Every Corner The security teams found evidence that the hackers had burrowed into almost every corner of QinetiQ's U.S. operations, including production facilities and engineering labs in St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Long Beach, Mississippi, Huntsville, Alabama and Albuquerque, New Mexico, where QinetiQ engineers work on satellite-based espionage, among other projects. By the middle of June 2010, after weeks of intense work, the investigators believed they had cleaned QinetiQ's networks and began wrapping up. The calm lasted a little more than two months. In early September, the FBI called QinetiQ with evidence that the defense contractor was again losing data, according to e-mails and a person involved in the probe. Anglin messaged both HBGary and Terremark, asking how quickly their teams could return. Within hours of their arrival, the investigators again began finding malicious software, or malware, in computers throughout the company's North American divisions. Some of it had been there since 2009. Software Deleted It began to dawn on the security teams that the hackers had established a near permanent presence in the defense contractor's computers, mining new information almost as soon as it was written onto hard drives. "Oh yeah...they are f'd," Wallisch wrote to Hoglund in September. Investigators also had to contend with frustrated QinetiQ employees. Upset about how much computer power the HBGary detection software was consuming, workers began deleting it from their computers with the approval of the company's information technology staff. As the hunt continued, more clues surfaced about what secrets the spies were after. The hunters' digital footprints were found on the computers of QinetiQ's chief operating officer, a division vice president and dozens of engineers and software architects, including several with classified clearances. Military Robots Among the victims was a specialist in the embedded software on microchips that control the company's military robots, which would help in China's own robot-building program, said Noel Sharkey, a drones and robotics expert at Britain's Sheffield University. The PLA unveiled a bomb disposal robot in April 2012 similar to QinetiQ's Dragon Runner. The chip architecture could also help China test ways to take over or defeat U.S. robots or aerial drones, Sharkey said. "You could set them up in a simulation board and hack into them," he said. "That's standard stuff." The spies also took an interest in engineers working on an innovative maintenance program for the Army's combat helicopter fleet. They targeted at least 17 people working on what's known as Condition Based Maintenance, which uses on-board sensors to collect data on Apache and Blackhawk helicopters deployed around the world, according to experts familiar with the program. The CBM databases contain highly sensitive information including the aircrafts' individual PIN numbers, and could have provided the hackers with a view of the deployment, performance, flight hours, durability and other critical information of every U.S. combat helicopter from Alaska to Afghanistan, according to Abdel Bayoumi, who heads the Condition Based Maintenance Center at the University of South Carolina. Redstone Arsenal The hackers also may have used QinetiQ to break into the Army's Redstone Arsenal through a network shared with QinetiQ's engineers in nearby Huntsville. A breach of the base, home of the Army's Aviation and Missile Command, was linked by military investigators back to QinetiQ, according to a person familiar with the investigation. It wasn't the only time the hackers used the same back-door approach to federal computers. The same person said that as recently as last year, federal agents were looking into a breach at a QinetiQ cyber-security unit, which they suspected Chinese hackers were using in attacks against government targets. The security lapses at QinetiQ led to investigations by several federal agencies, including the FBI, Pentagon, and Naval Criminal Investigative Service, according to two people involved, who didn't know the final outcome of the probes. The State Department, which has the power to revoke QinetiQ's charter to handle restricted military technology if it finds negligence, has yet to take any action against the company. 'Learning Curve' "In this case it looks like years go by without seeing any learning curve and that's what's scary," said Steven Aftergood, who directs the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists. "The company is responsible for its own failures, but the government is responsible for the inadequacy of its response." QinetiQ's U.S. operations are overseen by a proxy board that includes Riley Mixson, the Navy's former air-warfare chief. The board was briefed several times about the hacking and the investigations. Mixson said that "everything was duly reported" and then hung up the phone. Tenet declined to comment. The investigations didn't affect the company's ability to win government contracts, even to provide cyber-security services to federal agencies. Contract Awarded In May 2012, QinetiQ received a $4.7 million cyber-security contract from the U.S. Transportation Department, which includes protection of the country's critical transport infrastructure. "When it comes to cyber security QinetiQ couldn't grab their ass with both hands, so it cracks me up that they won," Bob Slapnik, vice president at HBGary, wrote after QinetiQ received a grant from the Pentagon in 2010 to advise it on ways to counter cyber espionage. In the fall of 2010, Terremark sent a report to Anglin concluding that QinetiQ had been targeted by the Comment Crew since 2007 and that the hackers had been operating continuously in their networks since at least 2009. The report was part of the trove of documents leaked by Anonymous. In that time, the hackers had gained almost complete control over the company's network. They had operated unhindered for months-long stretches and they had implanted multiple, hidden communications channels to extract data. Privately, the investigators concluded that the spies had gotten everything they wanted from QinetiQ's computers. "My feeling is that if an attacker has been in your environment for years, your data is gone," Wallisch wrote in an e-mail to a colleague in December 2010, a few weeks before HBGary itself was hacked and the record stops. "Everything about your business is known, cataloged, analyzed, by your enemy," Wallisch wrote. "I don't feel a sense of urgency anymore." 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