Birmingham's Induron Protective Coatings completes $1.2 million expansion (photos)

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Hack This!

Jim Simon was a U.S. Army intelligence officer, career CIA analyst and partner in Microsoft before starting his own cyber security consulting firm named i.e. LLC. Now a Guntersville resident, the 66-year-old Simon offers this as a catastrophic cyber scenario: "If I'm a cyber terrorist, and I really want to get your attention, I would wait until all the rivers are at flood stage," he says. "Then I would open all the locks and dams. I would kill 300,000 people. The Columbia River Valley and some other areas out West would be particularly good for that. Is that possible? Sure, anything would be possible."

 

"No one is immune from a cyber attack," says Ron Burgess, who recently retired as a U.S. Army lieutenant general after serving as head of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, which has more than 16,000 employees.

 

 "I've been doing analyses on cyber threats for a long time, and I'm encouraged, because more people are starting to wake up to it. It's a growing trend, and more people are trying to understand it," says Burgess, 61, who now is senior counsel for national security programs, cyber programs and military affairs at Auburn University, where he graduated in 1974.

 

Simon and Burgess were among the featured speakers recently at Rocket City TakeDownCon, a cyber security conference hosted by Huntsville-based Dynetics and the EC-Council.

More than 270 people attended the event, and it was no ordinary gathering.

 

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Alabama market briefings to promote exports to Southeast Asia

MONTGOMERY, Alabama - The Alabama Department of Commerce and the U.S. Department of Commerce's Export Assistance Center along with other Export Alabama Trade Alliance members will present a series of market briefings on Southeast Asia, featuring speaker Wanwemol Charukultharvatch, senior commercial specialist at the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand.

 

Events are scheduled for Sept. 26 at BizTech in Huntsville from 8-9:30 a.m. and at theBirmingham Business Alliance from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.; and for Sept. 27 at the Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

 

"We are excited to have Ms. Charukultharvatch visit Alabama to talk directly with companies interested in this unique market for exports," said Hilda Lockhart, director of the International Trade Division of the Alabama Department of Commerce. "Her areas of expertise are broad in numerous industry sectors, and she counsels U.S. government officials and private sector representatives regarding issues and business opportunities for this market."

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Former head of Mercedes' Alabama operations gets key leadership role with automaker

 

 

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US EMPLOYERS ADD 169K JOBS; RATE FALLS TO 7.3 PCT.

By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER

 

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. economy is producing jobs at a still-subpar pace - a trend the Federal Reserve will weigh in deciding this month whether to slow its bond buying and, if so, by how much.

 

Employers added 169,000 jobs in August but many fewer in June and July than previously thought, the Labor Department said Friday. Combined, June, July and August amounted to the weakest three-month stretch of job growth in a year.

 

The unemployment rate dropped to 7.3 percent, the lowest in nearly five years. But it fell because more Americans stopped looking for work and were no longer counted as unemployed. The proportion of Americans working or looking for work reached its lowest point in 35 years.

 

The jobs picture is sure to weigh heavily when the Fed meets Sept. 17-18 to discuss whether to scale back its $85 billion a month in Treasury and mortgage bond purchases. Those purchases have helped keep home-loan and other borrowing rates ultra-low to try to encourage consumers and businesses to borrow and spend more.

 

 

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             Registration underway for Alabama's only Innovation Conference

 

Join the Economic Development Partnership of Alabama on Sept. 26-27 for the third annual Alabama Launchpad Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conference that strives to celebrate the entrepreneurs and job creators who launch startups that help drive economic growth in the Alabama. We have a great lineup of speakers, including Gov. Robert Bentley and Alabama native Ted Alling, one of the South's leading entrepreneurs and managing partner of the Lamp Post Group, where he actively recruits and mentors other entrepreneurs. 

 

                                 

 

For conference agenda and more details visit the main conference website:

 

 

 

Registration page: Register Now

 

 

 

Samford University grad Ted Alling, CEO Access America Transport

 

Brad Feld, TechStars co-founder.

 

Andrew Chang, UPS Marketing Director