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College: It will hold March 29 meeting about the offer
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The arts center and Josie
Pepper Building are located at
the corner of 16th Street and
Franklin Avenue. County maps
show the college owns about a
third of the block, including
the buildings and surround-
ing parking lot, while a little
less than half the block is the
former Lum’s Auto Center,
owned by the Gordon David
Lum Trust. The block has a
few other houses on the south-
eastern corner.
The college met Thursday
with co-chairwomen Char-
lene Larsen and Constance
Waisanen from Partners for the
PAC, a coalition of arts-ori-
ented user groups formed in
2012 that pays the college
about $2,000 a month for the
operation of the center.
Larsen said the coalition
hopes to meet with the devel-
opers and learn more about
their vision for the site and
what exactly “community cen-
ter” means.
“Change will occur, and
it’s really important that the
college and the partners and
everyone involved be open and
transparent through this whole
process,” she said. “That’s
the impression I got from the
meeting” Thursday.
The college, which pur-
chased the former Peace
Lutheran Church in the 1970s,
has not held classes at the arts
center in several years and
estimates a massive amount
of deferred maintenance is
needed on the building.
The adjacent Josie Peper
Building was already sur-
plused. The college attempted
to sell it for a second home
and vacation rental, but had a
rezoning request blocked by
the Astoria City Council after
residents complained it would
change the character of the his-
toric Shively-McClure district.
The college will hold a
special meeting at 6:30 p.m.
March 29 in Columbia Hall
Room 219 on the main cam-
pus to further discuss the
offer.
The Daily Astorian
Clatsop Community College has received an offer on the Performing Arts Center, left,
and Josie Peper Building.
US cyber pros test skills in exercise meant to stop attacks
By TAMI ABDOLLAH
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The
moment a 8.S. of¿cial pressed
a computer key Tuesday, doz-
ens of security experts who
gathered in an underground
control room girded them-
selves for a cyberattack — a
drill meant to thwart the kinds
of intrusions that have recently
crippled health networks and
retail giants.
The weeklong event run
by the Homeland Security
Department and hosted by the
U.S. Secret Service is now
a decade old. But of¿cials
say this week’s exercises are
becoming more important as
both the government and pri-
vate sector have reeled from
breaches of personal data.
More than 1,000 U.S.
cybersecurity professionals
are participating in — and test-
ing how well they respond to
— a mock attack, said Greg-
ory Touhill, a Homeland Secu-
rity Department deputy assis-
tant secretary for cybersecurity
protection. They’ll be work-
ing together for three days in
Washington and across the
nation.
“Retail and health care
have been in the headlines
Tami Abdollah/AP Photo
Secret Service Director Joe Clancy speaks during the kick off Cyber Storm V in Wash-
ington, Tuesday. More than 1,100 cybersecurity professionals across the country and
from Wyoming, Missouri, Mississippi, Georgia, Maine, Nevada, Oklahoma and Oregon,
are participating in the Homeland Security Department’s simulation to test their ability
to deal with a cyberattack, said Touhill, the agency’s deputy assistant secretary for Cy-
bersecurity Operations and Programs at DHS.
— and, frankly, in the cross-
hairs for a lot of criminals,”
Touhill said. Household names
like Target Corp., The Home
Depot, UCLA Health Systems
and Anthem Inc. have all faced
recent cyberattacks that com-
promised millions of their cus-
tomers’ data.
U.S. of¿cials wouldn’t
detail the attack scenarios
unfolding this week because
they said it would tip off
the drill’s participants. But
they said their event has one,
overarching scenario, with
roughly 1,000 smaller events
— spurred by a phone call, an
email or a news article — that
could be indicators of an loom-
ing cyberattack.
Suzanne Spaulding, a top
Homeland Security cyber of¿-
cial, said the “challenge is
here and now.” She pointed
to a “nightmare” scenario last
December, in which hackers
attacked the Ukrainian electri-
cal grid and cut power to about
a quarter-million people.
During previous U.S.-
led tests, of¿cials found what
they called areas for improve-
ment. Touhill said at least two
areas from a previous test are
still being addressed, includ-
ing ensuring people have and
follow protocols, and security
personnel share information
effectively.
Secret Service Director
Joseph Clancy described the
event Tuesday as a way to
stay one step ahead of crimi-
nals who’ve taken advantage
of new and changing technol-
ogy, and who have changed
their own tactics.
In addition to eight par-
ticipating state governments
— Wyoming, Missouri, Mis-
sissippi, Georgia, Maine,
Nevada, Oklahoma and Ore-
gon — of¿cials from ¿ve
countries are also observing
the exercises. The Homeland
Security Department wouldn’t
reveal the countries involved.
Other participants include
health companies, Internet ser-
vice providers, telephone com-
panies and retail organiza-
tions. The aim is to test human
response and coordination, not
necessarily the participants’
technical skills.
“We’re looking to ¿nd the
failure points, to raise the bar
in every scenario,” Touhill said.
Recent attacks have also
hammered the ¿nancial sector,
in which a 2014 data breach
at JPMorgan Chase affected
more than 76 million house-
holds and 7 million small busi-
nesses. The bank said hack-
ers may have stolen names,
addresses, phone numbers and
email addresses.
Meanwhile, U.S. of¿cials
told Congress last year the
Of¿ce of Personnel Manage-
ment didn’t take basic steps
to secure their computer net-
works. That allowed to Chi-
nese-linked hackers to steal pri-
vate information about nearly
every federal employee, as well
as detailed personal histories
of millions who had security
clearances.
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