https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/11/03/h-1b-visa-fraud-feds-indict-sunnyvale-man-for-bringing-in-600-workers-illegally/

In a sign of the continuing crackdown on H-1B visa fraud, a Sunnyvale man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for an alleged scheme to illegally bring in 600 foreign workers to Silicon Valley over the past decade.

Kishore Kumar Kavuru, 46, billed himself as a “staffing specialist” for technology firms looking for skilled foreign workers to fill temporary positions. Instead of employers properly filing applications for workers to fill real jobs, however, Kavuru is accused of using his four consulting companies to file fraudulent applications for non-existent jobs.

“Because many of the applications were ultimately approved, Kavuru had a pool of unemployed H-1B beneficiaries that were immediately available for legitimate work projects,” according to the U.S. Department of Justice, “giving him a competitive advantage over other law-abiding staffing companies that followed the sometimes lengthy visa application process for petitioning foreign workers.”

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/americas-weapons-could-be-hacked—heres-how-stop-it-35102

The GAO’s recent tests found vulnerabilities in “nearly all” weapon systems currently being developed. The details of the vulnerabilities are alarming. According to the report, in tests of major weapon systems DOD is currently developing, “testers playing the role of adversary were able to take control of systems relatively easily and operate largely undetected.” Flaws as basic as poor password management and unencrypted communications—one administrator’s password took only nine seconds to guess—plagued the systems. Test teams were able to observe remote monitors, send annoying pop-ups, change or delete data, and even cause systems to shut down entirely. In one instance, a two-person test team hacked its way to full control of a system in just a day.