Calif. Man Arrested In Threats Against Wash. Rep

California Man Charged With Making Threatening Phone Calls To Washington Rep. McDermott

(AP) SEATTLE (AP) – A California man was arrested Wednesday on a charge that he made threatening, obscene phone calls to the office of U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott last month, weeks before a gunman shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others in Arizona.
An FBI complaint unsealed in federal court said Charles Turner Habermann, 32, of Palm Springs, called the Seattle Democrat’s office late Dec. 9 and early Dec. 10 and left two messages, each about four minutes long, after seeing him on television.
He began each with his name and phone number, and went on to threaten to kill the congressman – as well as his friends and family – over his opposition to extending tax cuts for the wealthy, according to transcripts recited in the complaint. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/01/12/ap/national/main7239939.shtml

Synagogue says threat prompts FBI probe

FARGO – The FBI is investigating the threatening voice mail left at Fargo’s synagogue.
A caller from a Florida-based area code left the phone message at Temple Beth El last week, promising a “special package” and mentioning jihad, according to Fargo police.
Bev Jacobson, president of Temple Beth El, said synagogue officials told the Jewish Community Relations Council in Minneapolis about the threat, and the organization informed the FBI’s Minneapolis office. http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/304722/group/homepage/

TSA Worker Gets 2 Years for Planting Logic Bomb in Screening System

A former TSA worker convicted of planting a logic bomb on a system used to screen airline passengers was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay about $60,000 in restitution to the TSA.

Douglas Duchak, 46, had worked as a data analyst at the TSA’s Colorado Springs Operations Center, or CSOC, since 2004. He planted the malware in late 2009, after the agency gave him two weeks’ notice that he was being terminated from the job he’d held for five years.

On Oct. 22, Duchak transmitted the malicious code onto a CSOC server that stored data from the U.S. Marshal’s Service, according to authorities. The next day, he loaded malicious code to a server containing the Terrorist Screening Database.

The malware was a logic bomb that was designed to cause damage and disrupt data on the servers at some future date. It was found on the system by other workers, however, before it was able to deliver its payload. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/01/tsa-worker-malware/#