Chris Nickerson

January 31, 2020

Iowa Prosecutors Drop Charges Against Men Hired to Test Their Security

This post was originally published on this siteOn Sept. 11, 2019, two security experts at a company that had been hired by the state of Iowa to test the physical and network security of its judicial system were arrested while probing the security of an Iowa county courthouse, jailed in orange jumpsuits, charged with burglary, and held on $100,000 bail. On Thursday Jan. 30, prosecutors in Iowa announced they had dropped the criminal charges. The news came while KrebsOnSecurity was conducting a video interview with the two accused (featured below). The courthouse in Dallas County, Iowa. Image: Wikipedia. Gary DeMercurio, 43 […]