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DHS report – Voting systems in North Carolina county in 2016 were not hacked

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Computer faults that disrupted voting in a North Carolina county in 2016 were not caused by cyber attacks, a federal investigation states. The Feds’ report said it didn’t find any malware or evidence of remote access to the Durham County Board of Elections systems. On Monday, the U.S. ” reported the AP agency.

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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

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For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. The 911 service as it exists today.

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Ex CIA employee Joshua Adam Schulte sentenced to 40 years in prison

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Furman for crimes of espionage, computer hacking, contempt of Court, making false statements to the FBI, and child pornography.” The hacking tools developed by the US cyber spies can target mobile devices, desktop computers, and IoT devices such as routers and smart TVs. District Judge Jesse M.

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Capital One data breach: hacker accessed details of 106M customers before its arrest

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A hacker that goes online with the handle “erratic” breached the systems at Capital One and gained access to personal information from 106 million Capital One credit applications. ” Paige Thompson is a former Amazon Web Services software engineer who worked for a Capital One contractor from 2015 to 2016.

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250 Webstresser Users to Face Legal Action

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In the United Kingdom, police have seized more than 60 personal electronic devices from a number of Webstresser users, and some 250 customers of the service will soon face legal action, Europol said in a statement released this week. Now, those same authorities are targeting people who paid the service to conduct attacks. According to U.S.

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Feds Target $100M ‘GozNym’ Cybercrime Network

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The indictments unsealed in a Pennsylvania court this week stem from a slew of cyber heists carried out between October 2015 and December 2016. 2016 by a similar international law enforcement action. 2016, Kapkanov fired an assault rifle at Ukrainian police who were trying to raid his apartment. Source: DOJ.

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The author of the LuminosityLink RAT sentenced to 30 Months in Prison

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The Luminosity RAT was first spotted in 2015 but it became very popular in 2016. In September 2016, the UK law enforcement arrested Colton Grubbs, the man admitted to designing, marketing, and selling LuminosityLink. to more than 6,000 customers, he also helped them to hack computers worldwide.