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

Security Affairs

Furman for crimes of espionage, computer hacking, contempt of Court, making false statements to the FBI, and child pornography.” ” In July 2022, Schulte was found guilty in a New York federal court of stealing the agency’s hacking tools and leaking them to WikiLeaks in 2017. . District Judge Jesse M.

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Norton 360 Now Comes With a Cryptominer

Krebs on Security

Norton 360 , one of the most popular antivirus products on the market today, has installed a cryptocurrency mining program on its customers’ computers. In 2017, the identity theft protection company LifeLock was acquired by Symantec Corp. based NortonLifeLock Inc. “It’s disgusting, gross, and brand-suicide.”

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Alexander Vinnik, the operator of BTC-e exchange, pleaded guilty to money laundering

Security Affairs

Alexander Vinnik , a Russian national, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering for his involvement in operating the cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e from 2011 to 2017. In July 2017 law enforcement shut down the virtual currency exchange. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Hackers Breached Virginia Bank Twice in Eight Months, Stole $2.4M

Krebs on Security

The email allowed the intruders to install malware on the victim’s PC and to compromise a second computer at the bank that had access to the STAR Network , a system run by financial industry giant First Data that the bank uses to handle debit card transactions for customers. Between Jan. THE LAWSUIT.

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250 Webstresser Users to Face Legal Action

Krebs on Security

Webstresser.org (formerly Webstresser.co), as it appeared in 2017. 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. According to U.S. According to U.S.

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US DoJ announced to have shut down the Russian RSOCKS Botnet

Security Affairs

The RSOCKS was composed of millions of compromised computers and other electronic devices around the world, including industrial control systems, time clocks, routers, audio/video streaming devices, and smart garage door openers. “The U.S. ” reads the announcement published by DoJ. ” continues DoJ.

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e-Records 2017: “Teacher Retirement System of Texas: The Information Governance Journey”

The Texas Record

This is the seventh post of a multi-part recap of the 2017 e-Records Conference. Presentation materials from the conference are available on the e-Records 2017 website. TSLAC Wants Your Electronic Records. These results were used to develop a big bucket retention schedule and create standard repositories for electronic records.