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Minneapolis FBI agent charged with leaking classified information to reporter

Posted on March 29, 2018 by Dissent

Mukhtar M. Ibrahim reports: A Minneapolis FBI agent who started his career with the agency as an intern in 2000 has been charged with leaking classified information to the news website The Intercept. Terry James Albury’s attorneys, JaneAnne Murray and Joshua Dratel, said in a statement that their client, the only African-American FBI field agent…

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NYS Data breaches exposed personal information of 9.2M New Yorkers in 2017

Posted on March 29, 2018 by Dissent

WHEC reports: New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was in Rochester Thursday to release a new report on data breaches impacting New Yorkers. The attorney general released “Information Exposed: 2017 Data Breaches in New York State,” documenting the record number of data breach notices filed with his office in 2017. In 2017, companies and other entities reported 1,583…

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32 state Attorneys General to Congress: Don’t replace our stronger privacy laws!

Posted on March 27, 2018 by Dissent

Mike Litt writes: A bipartisan group of 32 state Attorneys General, led by Illinois AG Lisa Madigan, sent a joint letter last week to the House Financial Services Committee leadership against the draft (link includes opposition testimony of Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office) “Data Acquisition and Technology Accountability and Security Act” that PIRG has also been opposing. The bill…

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Mastermind behind Carbanak and Cobalt malware attacks on financial institutions arrested in Spain – Europol

Posted on March 26, 2018 by Dissent

The leader of the crime gang behind the Carbanak and Cobalt malware attacks targeting over a 100 financial institutions worldwide has been arrested in Alicante, Spain, after a complex investigation conducted by the Spanish National Police, with the support of Europol, the US FBI, the Romanian, Belarussian and Taiwanese authorities and private cyber security companies….

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“First do no harm” should be “First, secure your patient data, Doctor!”

Posted on March 26, 2018 by Dissent

When they discovered more than 42,000 patient records and millions of patient clinical notes exposed on a misconfigured rsync backup, researchers at UpGuard responsibly set out to notify the entity to secure their data. It turned out to be a Herculean task that would take almost two months and multiple entities to get the job…

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Nine Iranians Charged With Conducting Massive Cyber Theft Campaign on Behalf of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

Posted on March 23, 2018 by Dissent

An Indictment charging Gholamreza Rafatnejad, 38; Ehsan Mohammadi, 37; Abdollah Karima, aka Vahid Karima, 39; Mostafa Sadeghi, 28; Seyed Ali Mirkarimi, 34; Mohammed Reza Sabahi, 26; Roozbeh Sabahi, 24; Abuzar Gohari Moqadam, 37; and Sajjad Tahmasebi, 30, all citizens and residents of Iran, was unsealed today.  The defendants were each leaders, contractors, associates, hackers-for-hire or…

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