Mitnick wasn’t particularly cunning, he was persistent. The hardest part, really, was keeping the whole effort going. We had quite a group – four or five good people – and we had to keep our momentum. I didn’t really see anything very clever. He tampered with the GTE phone switch, but that wasn’t very clever. Tracing the cellular transmission was trivial – it was a straight shot. Kevin wasn’t good – he was just very persistent and notorious....

NEWSWEEK: What progress is being made in the cleanup? Sejal Choksi: Over the weekend we had 4,000 to 5,000 people offering to help out. Then we had these [government] agencies saying, “Don’t come out to the beaches. You will get in the way. You aren’t trained to handle hazardous materials or injured wildlife.” So we ended up with people coming out to their favorite beaches anyway, trying to do what they could....

In some ways, they are where mainstream emerging markets like India and Brazil were in the early ’90s. Foreign investors are still few. Retail investors dominate trading and institutional participation is scant. Corporate governance is sketchy, and company management far from transparent. Momentum trading, rather than fundamental research, powers stocks. But the parallels end there. The financial and economic profiles of the core Middle Eastern markets—Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates—are remarkably different....

The 85-year-old businessman had previously made comments critical of cryptocurrency as a whole, in 2018 calling the technology “ridiculous.” However, in an interview with Bloomberg published Thursday morning, Icahn suggested his stance has changed. Speaking to Bloomberg hosts Taylor Riggs and Caroline Hyde, Icahn discussed the use of cryptocurrency as a “store of value” as a natural response to inflation. Regarding cryptocurrency’s use case, Icahn stated: “‘What’s the value of a cryptocurrency?...

MORE: Notable sports figures who lost their lives in 2015 He was diagnosed with terminal stage four cancer last summer. The Flint, Mich., native is Iowa’s all-time leading scorer, accumulating 2,116 points while leading the team to four NCAA Tournament appearances from 1985-89. He was selected 23rd overall by the Hawks in the 1989 NBA Draft. His son, Roy Deyvn Marble, also played for Iowa and is currently a member of the Magic....

Niang scored a game-high 28 points and hauled in six rebounds to lead the No. 4 Cyclones after scoring 28 points against Iona in the first round. Matt Thomas scored 16 points and star point guard Monte Morris added eight points and four assists. MORE: The 14 most humiliating first-round chokes The Cyclones, particularly Morris, held Little Rock’s leading scorer Josh Hagins to just 8 points. “Our team took a lot of criticism on the defensive end this year,” Iowa State coach Steve Prohm told TNT after the game....

I’ll Scratch Your Back… This week, former secretary of State James Baker is scheduled to fly to Europe to beseech Russia, Germany and France to forgive Iraq’s crushing $120 billion debt. His task is made all the more difficult by a statement, written by Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, announcing that any country which failed to support the war on Iraq would not be allowed to bid on some $20 billion in contracts to rebuild the country....

While rocket strikes near U.S. facilities in the Iraqi capital have become a somewhat regular occurrence over the past year and a half of heightened tensions between U.S. troops and Iraqi militias supportive of Iran, the latest barrage last week drew an ominous warning from the president himself, who claimed there was “chatter of additional attacks against Americans in Iraq,” “Some friendly health advice to Iran: If one American is killed, I will hold Iran responsible,” Trump tweeted Wednesday alongside a picture of three unexploded rockets allegedly found near the attack site....

U.S. and other Western leaders dismissed Iran’s latest election as a sham intended only to install more Khamenei loyalists in the Tehran government. Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said Friday that a renegotiation of the nuclear deal could occur before Raisi, a hard-line judge, takes office, offering the Biden administration some hope. Sullivan repeatedly stated on ABC News’ This Week that the U.S. is going full steam ahead with negotiations to reinstate a nuclear deal, regardless of Iran’s new president....

The delegation we will lead today, organized by the Iranian-American Institute for Voices of Liberty (iVOL), is living proof that peace some day is possible among the United States, Iran and Israel. It will be the first time that non-Jewish Iranian expatriates and former political prisoners, side-by-side with American friends, visit the Jewish state. This solidarity mission is to the same Israel that the Iranian regime seeks to wipe off the face of the earth with a nine-point plan tweeted by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei....

Rouhani called on citizens to adhere to official guidelines in preventing the spread of the virus officially known as COVID-19 but added that the nation must continue to operate as usual to avoid aiding Tehran’s adversaries. The president dismissed reports suggesting the coronavirus was out of the government’s control, calling this “one of the enemy’s plots to bring our country into closure by spreading panic.” “We all have to work, carry on with our activities and be careful,” Rouhani said....

In addition to allegedly offering an unnamed person $300,000 to kill Bolton in either Washington, D.C., or Maryland, Iranian national and member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Shahram Poursafi, 45, of Tehran, also allegedly requested the unknown individual to complete a second “job” that included previously completed surveillance. Poursafi, also known as Mehdi Rezayi, allegedly said information was gathered “from the United States” and not “via Google,” about the second person....

Rouhani is in New York this week for the United Nations General Assembly, where Trump spoke this morning about many subjects, including the U.S. relationship with Iran. Rouhani was not in attendance for Trump’s remarks at the U.N. today, although an Iranian delegate was in the gallery. In his speech, Trump said, “All nations have a duty to act. No responsible government should subsidize Iran’s bloodlust. As long as Iran’s menacing behavior continues, sanctions will not be lifted, they will be tightened....

The call to commemorate the hundreds who were killed in the unrest that started on November 15, 2019 is expected to give new momentum to protests that have roiled Iran over the last 10 weeks. Three years ago, a surprise fuel price hike sparked bloody street violence in which police stations were attacked, shops looted and banks and petrol stations torched. Amnesty International said at least 304 people were killed although a tribunal convened in London this year by rights groups suggested the death toll was much higher....

Ahmad Chalabi, a onetime favorite of the Pentagon’s, has proposed a plan that, if approved by Bremer’s Coalition Provisional Authority, will allow Chalabi and his fellow Governing Council members to approve a slate of candidates for the “caucuses” to be held in each of Iraq’s 18 provinces. Chalabi’s plan calls for the provincial caucuses to select candidates for the assembly from the approved list. Governing Council members who support the proposal say the candidates would not be “clones” of the 25 Governing Council members, and that other Iraqi political parties should also be able to propose a slate of candidates, with vetting by the CPA....

This could turn into a drawn-out siege. Infuriated by recent Iraqi government crackdowns on Shiite militias and criminals in Basra and southern Baghdad, the insurgents in the impoverished neighborhood of Sadr City appear have set their sights on the psychologically important Green Zone. The shelling has killed two American soldiers and two civilians who worked for the U.S. government or military and injured at least two dozen others. In Sadr City, U....

In a statement sent to Newsweek, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi’s office said Monday that Baghdad’s National Security Council held an emergency meeting in the wake of Sunday’s U.S. targeting of Iraq and Syrian territories on the basis of claims that armed groups backed by Iran used the sites to launch drone attacks against U.S. forces. “The Ministerial Council for National Security expressed its strong condemnation and censure of the American bombing that targeted a site on our border with Syria,” the statement said, “stressing that this attack represents a flagrant violation of Iraqi sovereignty, which is rejected by all international laws and covenants....

Jeff Ireland, the general manager who had come aboard at the beginning of the Bill Parcells regime six years ago, either jumped or was pushed overboard Tuesday night. (Officially, said the Dolphins in a statement, they and Ireland “mutually agreed to part ways.”) According to numerous reports, owner Stephen Ross planned to take away most, if not all, of Ireland’s power over personnel decisions. Something had to change, though, after this season....

Secrecy still surrounds the circumstances and impact of a rocket engine blast on a platform in Noyonoksa off the coast of Arkhangelsk on August 8, which killed at least five people and injured six. The failed test is thought to have involved the nuclear-powered cruise missile in Russian known as “Burevestnik” and in the U.S. as “Skyfall.” Victims were taken to Arkhangelsk regional hospital for treatment, where doctors say they were not warned about radiation exposure....