The US Federal Reserve
bank has confirmed one of its internal websites was broken into by hackers after
the hacktivist group Anonymous was claimed
to have stolen details of more than 4,000 bank executives. "The Federal Reserve system is aware that information was obtained by
exploiting a temporary vulnerability in a website vendor product," a spokeswoman
for the US central bank said. "Exposure was fixed shortly after discovery and is no longer an issue. This
incident did not affect critical operations of the Federal Reserve system," the
spokeswoman said, adding that all individuals affected by the breach had been
contacted. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/feb/06/federal-reserve-anonymous
James F. Booth
For more than 25 years, James Booth has provided consulting and legal services to telecommunications carriers and to enterprise companies that manage their own telecommunications networks. Since June of 2009 he has also served as General Counsel of Spread Networks, LLC, which is the industry leader in the construction and operation of low latency high speed networks. Before joining Spread he was General Counsel for OnFiber Communications, a competitive telecommunications provider, and was the sole attorney for Qwest Communications International in support of its construction of an 18,800 mile fiber optic network spanning the United States. Earlier he was lead counsel for U S WEST in its wireless and cable television ventures in the United States, Europe and Hong Kong.