Monday, October 3, 2016
From 2012 to 2014, FBI submitted 561 Section215 applications: DOJ OIG
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Sunday, October 2, 2016
At Least One Dead, More Than 100 Injured After NJ Transit Train Hits Hoboken Station
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House Passes Six Bills to Protect the Homeland
This week, the House passed six bipartisan bills to improve various Department of Homeland Security (DHS) efforts, including providing flexibility in the grant funds, <link……
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My commentary about Goldman Sachs going after a blogger, UK and France considering a “No Fly Zone’ in Libya, Utah recognizing Gold as legal Tender, the oil prices rising and a food shortage in fast food restaurants.
More than 1,000 waivers granted for health care law
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20040244-503544.html
Goldman Sachs hires law firm to shut blogger’s site
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/5137489/Goldman-Sachs-hires-law-firm-to-shut-bloggers-site.html#
Utah House Passes Bill Recognizing Gold, Silver as Legal Tender
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/04/utah-house-passes-recognizing-gold-silver-legal-tender/?test=latestnews
U.K., France draft resolution to impose ‘no-fly zone’ over Libya
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41952726/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/
Stocks Plummet As Oil Climbs Above 5 A Barrel
http://www.rttnews.com/Content/TopStories.aspx?Node=B1&Id=1569917
Homeland Security looked into covert body scans
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-03-04-bodyscans04_ST_N.htm
Number of Americans on food stamps has jumped to 44,082,324 as of Dec 2010
http://www.fns.usda.gov/pd/29SNAPcurrPP.htm
Veggie shortage hits fast food chains
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/story/2011/03/02/pei-tomato-green-pepper-subway-584.html
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TeamXRat spreads ransomware via RDP brute-force attacks
Malware researchers from Kaspersky have spotted the TeamXRat gang spreading a new ransomware in Brazil via RDP brute-force attacks.
Cyber criminals are using stolen or weak remote desktop credentials to access systems and deliver file-encrypting ransomware.
This is not a novelty in the criminal ecosystem, in March experts discovered a ransomware dubbed Surprise that was installed via TeamViewer and executes from memory.
In October 2015, experts at BleepingComputer blog reported a strain of ransomware dubbed LowLevel04 that was spreading via Remote Desktop and Terminal Service.
The hackers in both circumstances used stolen credentials for RDP software.
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Saturday, October 1, 2016
3-D Scans of Crime Scenes Proving Vital for Niagara County, N.Y., Police
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Increase in Funding of Military Intelligence Cyber
The US Defense Department (DoD) has been attributing growing importance to the military intelligence cyber field. This has been reflected by the …
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