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Former U.S. Postal Service Employee Sentenced To Federal Prison For Theft Of Postal Funds And Identity Theft

Posted on August 7, 2015 by Dissent

BATON ROUGE, LA –United States Attorney Walt Green announced that Chief U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson sentenced LARONDA D. MOORE, age 38, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, yesterday to serve 32 months in federal prison for her conviction for aggravated identity theft and misappropriation of postal funds. Following her release from prison, MOORE will be…

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AU: WA prison officer fined for snooping

Posted on August 6, 2015 by Dissent

A senior prison officer who used a work computer to obtain information about prisoners involved in a drugs syndicate “out of curiosity” has been fined $5000. Read about it on news.com.au.

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UPDATE: Russia thought to be behind attack on Pentagon Joint Chief of Staff email system

Posted on August 6, 2015 by Dissent

Courtney Kube and Jim Miklaszewski report: U.S. officials tell NBC News that Russia launched a “sophisticated cyberattack” against the Pentagon’s Joint Staff unclassified email system, which has been shut down and taken offline for nearly two weeks. According to the officials, the “sophisticated cyber intrusion” occurred sometime around July 25 and affected some 4,000 military…

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Joint Chiefs’ email network breach was “most sophisticated” cyberbreach in US military history (UPDATE 1)

Posted on August 6, 2015 by Dissent

On July 28, CNN reported: The unclassified email network used by Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and hundreds of military and civilian personnel was taken offline over the weekend after suspicious activity was detected, the Pentagon confirmed to CNN on Tuesday. Yesterday, The Daily Beast reported that the attack was much…

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Ca: Electronic devices containing bureaucrats’ personal information stolen from government office

Posted on August 6, 2015 by Dissent

It’s probably diagnostic that I still get excited when I see a report that data on stolen devices were encrypted. Michael Woods reports: Someone broke in to a government building earlier this year and made off with electronic devices containing the personal information of 260 government workers, newly released documents show – a privacy breach…

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The Federal Government Expects to Spend $500M on Post-Hack Benefits by 2020

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Dissent

Eric Katz reports: The federal government spelled out in a request for submissions from contractors how it plans to respond to future hacks of personnel data, a tacit acknowledgment no amount of system security bolstering can effectively prevent breaches from happening altogether. The General Services Administration on Tuesday evening put forth a request for quotes on a blanket…

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