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Feds: Ex-employee targeted Minnesota company with ‘hacker-for-hire’

Posted on November 7, 2017 by Dissent

Mark Reilly reports: Federal prosecutors say a cyberattack on a Monticello-based technology company was prompted by a former worker who hired outside hackers to bring down its websites. The Star Tribune reports on the charges against John Kelsey Gammell, a former Minnesota resident who allegedly hired a hacking-for-hire service in Israel to target Washburn Computer…

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MA: EMTs, paramedics may not know personal information is posted online

Posted on November 6, 2017 by Dissent

Boston25 News reported this last week: A state database reveals personal information about some health care workers, who say they’re worried about potential violence following them home. Bob St. Martin is a paramedic who made a troubling discovery earlier this month when he found a link to download his personal information online. “We have to…

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Shafer’s attorney appeals revocation of his pretrial release

Posted on November 6, 2017 by Dissent

Attorneys for Justin Shafer have appealed the revocation of his pretrial release. As regular readers of this site likely know already, Shafer has been in jail since April on charges of cyberstalking an FBI agent and the agent’s family. Those cyberstalking charges have nothing to do with three FBI raids conducted on Shafer prior to…

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Staunton medical practice reports patient data breach after employee wrong-doing

Posted on November 4, 2017 by Dissent

Gabe Cavallaro reports: Valley Family Medicine (VFM) in Staunton announced Friday that there was a breach of protected health information for some of its patients in mid-July. Two employees printed and misused a mailing list of 8,450 patient names and addresses. One of those employees then used that list to make postcard notifications informing certain…

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Former University of Iowa Student Appears on Computer Fraud Charges

Posted on November 4, 2017 by Dissent

DAVENPORT, Iowa – On November 2, 2017, Trevor Graves, 19, a former University of Iowa student, appeared in federal court in front of United States Magistrate Judge Stephen B. Jackson, Jr., on a complaint charging from March of 2015 to November of 2016, Graves exceeded authorized access, knowingly caused the transmission of a code and…

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U.S. Prosecutors Consider Charging Russian Officials in DNC Hacking Case

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Dissent

Aruna Viswanatha and Del Quentin Wilber report: The Justice Department has identified more than six members of the Russian government involved in hacking the Democratic National Committee’s computers and swiping sensitive information that became public during the 2016 presidential election, according to people familiar with the investigation. Read more on The Wall Street Journal.

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