The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Monday, October 28, 2013 - 5A The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Monday, October 28, 2013 - 5A FACULTY From Page 1A Woolliscroft also said he's looking forward to researching issues pertinent to the nation and reporting on sub-committees related to health and safety. Fearon, whose research is related to the progression of colon and rectal cancer, described the process as intense: members of the IOM nominate individuals for consideration, and then a board takes several months to evaluate the candidates to determine who will be elected. Despite the honor, Fearon said joining the IOM wasn't a career * goal. "It's great to be recognized and have your group recognized for their work in science and in medi- cine, but ultimately your goal is to help people," Fearon said. "With anything you just try to do the best work and the best research you can and try to make an impact that way." FINANCE From Page 1A relatively low voter turnout for council elections. Other than Lumm, Westphal and Briere, no candidates exceed- ed $5,000 in fundraising during the period. In Ward 3, Stephen Kunselman (D-Ward 3) collected no money during the last filing period. Kun- selman also recently announced he will be running for mayor in 2014. His council seat is being contested by Samuel DeVarti, a student at Eastern Michigan University, running as an Inde- pendent for the Mixed Use Party. DeVarti has raised a total of $945 so far. In Ward 4, John Eaton is run- ning against write-in candidate William Lockwood, the Ann Arbor Chronicle reported. Eaton collected $2,150 during this most recent period. Campaign finance details are not available for write- in candidates. Mike Anglin (D-Ward 5) has collected about $4,587, and is officially uncontested. Ann Arbor residents Thomas Par- tridge and Charles Smith have mounted write-in campaigns, according to the Ann Arbor Chronicle. Only five of the 11 city coun- cil seats will have elections this fall, as only half of the 10 ward representatives are elected each year for two-year terms. The elections are Tuesday, Nov. 5. SHEI From Page 1A like a combination of profession- al fashion and something more accessible to students. "We're all Michigan students but we get to be a part of some- thing more interesting," Treado said. The group sold SHEI branded T-shirts and other merchandise for fundraising, and guests were also invited to have their photo taken against a SHEI backdrop. Attendees were given raffle 'tick- ets upon entry for giftcards to ASOS, MDen and Pitaya, among others. --Daily News Editor Alicia Adamczyk contributed reporting. WE'RE GONNA MISS MARY SUE TOO WE HAVE THAT IN * COMMON. "But you guys are an institution, man! I'm not gonna follow you!" HEY, CORPORATIONS ARE PEOPLE TOO. @MICHIGANDAILY LAW From Page1A said she often feels lonesome as a Black student pursuing a career in the legal industry. "I really thought that I was the only one. I knew I wasn't, but it felt like it," Wilson said. "It would be nice to actually come together and see who like you is doing the same thing, and then you can talk about your process together." Though the number of Black students at the law school is low according to recent data, Wilson doesn't feel like that puts her at a disadvantage. "If you look at the numbers and see that a lot of people like yourself don'tcget picked, I guess that can he slightly discourag- ing, but I don't think about it so much because I am confident in my abilities," Wilson said. LSA junior Jehan Jawad, her- self an aspiring attorney, saidshe thinks an increase in minority pre-law clubs will help encour- age minority participation in this career path. "I don't think there is an adequate amount of programs to help minorities interested in law school. I want to help share my story as a way to enlighten women of color to go into this practice." Israeli tunnel hit by cyber attackers UMHS From Page 1A Office of Technology Transfer, $11.1 million of the $14.4 mil- lion that the University collects each year from past patents and licensing agreements is directly attributable to innovations from medical research. Licenses were granted to 54 Medical School inventions as part of 40 license agreements with corporate busi- nesses in the past fiscal year. Licensing and patents do not always translate into successful products,but the Medical School. has established a new initiative to aid in the translation from research lab to marketplace. Headed by Ward, the Fast Forward Medical Innova- tion Initiative aims to combine research and entrepreneurship efforts in order to foster com- mercialization. Among the initiative's pro- grams is the implementation of Innovation Strike Forces, groups of employees that will identify and accelerate promising ideas, then connect the dots between researchers, clinicians and busi- nesses. "The new innovation program is to help faculty think in different ways about their ideas and to pro- vide them with an innovation road map so that we can get their ideas to impact through product devel- opmentmuchearlier,"Wardsaid. Ward said although ideas are protected through invention disclosures and patents, many of them do not necessarily become products. To ease the transi- tion from biomedical research to clinical application, Ward plans to work closely with the Office of Tech Transfer, the Col- lege of Engineering Center for Entrepreneurship, the Business Engagement Center and other campus offices. "We've got a top-ranked Med- ical School, College of Engineer- ing and Business School, so one of the strategies will be to blur the lines between them." Trojan horse attack inflitrated security system, lead to massive shutdown HADERA, Israel (AP) - When Israel's military chief delivered a high-profile speech this month outlining the great- est threats his country might face in the future, he listed computer sabotage as a top concern, warning a sophisti- cated cyberattack could one day bring the nation to a stand- still. Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz was not speaking empty words. Exactly one month before his address, a major artery in Isra- el's national road network in the northern city of Haifa was shut down because of a cyberat- tack, cybersecurity experts tell The Associated Press, knock- ing key operations out of com- mission two days in a row and causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage. One expert, speaking on con- dition of anonymity because the breach of security was a classified matter, said a Trojan horse attack targeted the secu- rity camera system in the Car- mel Tunnels toll road on Sept. 8. A Trojan horse is a malicious computer program that users unknowingly install that can give hackers complete control over their systems. The attack caused an imme- diate 20-minute lockdown of the roadway. The next day, the expert said, it shut down the roadway again during morning rush hour. It remained shut for eight hours, causing massive congestion. The expert said investiga- tors believe the attack was the work of unknown, sophisti- cated hackers, similar to the Anonymous hacking group that led attacks on Israeli websites in April. He said investigators determined it was not sophisti- cated enough to be the work of an enemy government like Iran. The expert said Israel's National Cyber Bureau, a two- year-old classified body that reports to the prime minister, was aware of the incident. The bureau declined comment, while Carmelton, the compa- ny that oversees the toll road, blamed a "communication glitch" for the mishap. While Israel is a frequent target of hackers, the tunnel is the most high-profile landmark known to have been attacked. It is a major thoroughfare for Israel's third-largest city, and the city is looking to turn the tunnel into a public shelter in case ofemergency, highlighting its importance. The incident is exactly the type of scenario that Gantz described in his recent address. He said Israel's. future battles might begin with "a cyberat- tack on websites which provide daily services to the citizens of Israel. Traffic lights could stop working, the banks could be shut down," he said. There have been cases of traffic tampering before. In 2005, the United States out- lawed the unauthorized use of traffic override devices installed in many police cars and ambulances after unscru- pulous drivers started using them to turn lights from red to green. In 2008, two Los Ange- les traffic engineers pleaded guilty to breaking into the city's signal system and deliberately snarling traffic as part of alabor dispute. Oren David, a manager at international security firm RSA's anti-fraud unit, said that although he didn't have infor- mation about the tunnel inci- dent, this kind of attack "is the hallmark of a new era." "Most of these systems are automated, especially as far as security is concerned. They're automated and they're remotely controlled, either over the Internet or otherwise, so they're vulnerable to cyberat- tack," he said. Israel, he added, is "among the top-targeted countries." In June, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran and its proxies Hezbollah and Hamas have targeted Israel's "essential systems," including its water system, electric grid, trains and banks. "Every sphere of civilian economic life, let's not even talk about our security, is a potential or actual cyberattack target," Netanyahu said at the time. Israeli government websites receive hundreds and some- times thousands of cyberat- tacks each day, said Ofir Ben Avi, head of the government's website division. During Israel's military offensive on the Gaza Strip last year, tens of millions of web- site attacks took place, from denial of service attacks, which cripple websites by overload- ing them with traffic, to more sophisticated attempts to steal passwords, Ben Avi said. Under constant threat, Israel has emerged as a world leader in cybersecurity, with murky military units developing much of the technology. Last year, the military formed its first cyberdefense unit. Israeli cybersecurity experts say Iran and other hostile enti- ties have successfully hacked into Israeli servers this year, and that Israel has quietly per- mitted those attacks to occur in order to track the hackers and feed them false intelligence. Israel is also widely believed to have launched its own sophisticated computer attacks on its enemies, including the Stuxnet worm that caused sig- nificant damage to Iran's nucle- ar program. Bracing for serious attacks on Israeli civilian infrastruc- ture, Israel's national electric company launched a training program this month to teach engineers and power plant supervisors how to detect sys- tem infiltrations. The Israel Electric Corp. says its servers register about 6,000 unique computer attacks every second. "Big organizations and even countries are preparing for D-Day," said Yasha Hain, a senior executive vice president at the company. "We decided to prepare ourselves to be first in line." The training program is run jointly with CyberGym, a cyberdefense company founded by ex-Israeli intelligence opera- tives that consults for Israeli oil, gas, transportation and financial companies. On a manicured campus of eucalyptus trees across from a power plant in Israel's north, groups are divided into teams in a role-playing game of hackers and power plant engineers. The "hackers," code-named the Red Team, sit in a dimly lit room decorated with cartoon villains on the walls. Darth Vader hovers over binary code. Kermit the Frog flashes his middle finger. In another room, a minia- ture model of a power station overflows with water and the boiler's thermometer shoots up as the role-playing hackers run a "Kill All" code. The exer- cise teaches employees how to detect a possible cyberattack even if their computer systems don't register it. About 25 middle-aged employees attended the first day of training last week. The course will eventually train thousands of workers, the elec- tric company said. CyberGym co-founder Ofir Hason declined to comment on the toll road shutdown, but said the company has seen a number of cyberattacks on infrastruc- tures in recent years. The country is especially susceptible because Israel has no electricity-sharing agree- ments with neighboring states, and all of the country's essen- tial infrastructure depends on the-naofr- Calif. gunman dead following brutal rampage Gunman kills one, injures three before being shot by police RIDGECREST, Calif. (AP) - Sergio Munoz was known around this small desert city to acquaintances as a personable dad, and to police for his long rap sheet. In recent weeks, he began losing the moorings of a stable* life - his job, then his family. Kicked out of the house, he had been staying at a friend's place, using and dealing heroin. Life fully unraveled. when Munoz, with two hostages in his trunk, led officers on a wild chase Friday after killing a woman and injuring his crash-pad friend. He shot the friend after he had refused to join what Munoz planned would be afinalrampage against police and "snitches." Munoz knew the authorities well enough that after the initial, pre-dawn slaying he called one patrol officer's cellphone and announced that he wanted to kill all police in town. But because he would be outgunned at the station he would instead "wreak havoc" elsewhere, Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said at a news conference Friday. Munoz kept his word, first firing at drivers in Ridgecrest, according to police, then taking shots at pursuing officers and passingmotorists duringachase along 30 miles of highway that runs through the shrub-dotted desert about 150 miles north of Los Angeles. He ran traffic off the road, firing at least 10 times at passing vehicles with a shot- gun and a handgun, though no one was hurt. In the end, Munoz pulled over on U.S. 395, turned in his seat and began shooting into the trunk - which had popped open earlier in the pursuit to reveal a man and woman inside. As many as seven officers opened fire and killed him. The hostages were flown to a hospi- tal in critical condition, but were expected to survive. Their names have not been released and police have not said anything about their relationship to Munoz except that he knew them. In the neighborhood where the first shooting happened, people said Munoz was an affa- ble man who would stop to chat, revealing no signs of inner tur- moil. "He didn't show any anger," said Edgar Martinez, who would see Munoz at a nearby gym and said he cleaned his house several years ago. Others described him as respectful and humble. But recently, his life began to crumble. First, he became unemployed. According to his Facebook page, Munoz worked at Searles Valley Minerals, a company that makes products such as borax and soda ash by extracting a salty mix from beneath a desert lake bed. It was not clear whether he lost his job at Searles, or another business, and officials at Searles were unreachable Saturday. Last Sunday, Munoz, 39, was arrested again - police found ammunition and a syringe atthe house where the, slaying would happen five days later. Munoz is a felon with convictions dating back to 1994, when he was sen- tenced to more than two years in prison for receiving stolen property. In May, he was arrest- ed for possessing ammunition as a felon, but the felony charge was dismissed. After making bail on the lat- est arrest, Munoz returned to the house where he first started staying about two weeks ago. A neighbor heard Munoz bemoaning his life, saying he was losing everything due to drugs. "He was a cool guy," said the neighbor, Derrick Holland. "He was just losing his mind." Munoz's estranged wife, San- dra Leiva, said that they sepa- rated because she finally had enough of his bad choices. "Tough love and drugs, that's what brought him down," Leiva said. On Saturday morning, Munoz's 15-year-old daugh- ter, Viviana, reflected on her father's life in a Facebook post. "Your such a great dad when you were not on drugs...I remember how you used always try and teach us how to dance all crazy with your chicken legs haha," she wrote. "You were a good father and person, you just made a sad choice."