Army vows to reinvigorate electronic warfare by combining it with cyber, intelligence functions

  1. Army vows to reinvigorate electronic warfare by combining it with cyber, intelligence functions  FederalNewsRadio.com
  2. Lessons learned from training Army combat units in cyber ops  FCW.com
  3. US Army to send ‘cybersoldiers’ to the battlefield in bid to bring down enemy networks and spy on data  Daily Mail
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Men plead guilty to creating ‘botnet’ used to crash the web

  1. Men plead guilty to creating ‘botnet’ used to crash the web  NBCNews.com
  2. Mirai botnet: Three admit creating and running attack tool  BBC News
  3. Mirai Botnet That Brought Down Internet Was Minecraft Stunt  Newsweek
  4. Gov Uscourts Akd 58770 5 0 1 – DocumentCloud  DocumentCloud
  5. Mirai IoT Botnet Co-Authors Plead Guilty  Krebs on Security
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Inside Track: Next Year’s Must-Watch Data Breach Case | Boeing’s GC Sky High on SCOTUS Clerks

  1. Inside Track: Next Year’s Must-Watch Data Breach Case | Boeing’s GC Sky High on SCOTUS Clerks  Law.com
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2 million people—and some dead ones—were impersonated in net neutrality comments

Enlarge / An analysis from New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. (credit: New York Attorney General’s office)

An analysis of public comments on the FCC’s plan to repeal net neutrality rules found that 2 million of them were filed using stolen identities. That’s according to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

“Millions of fake comments have corrupted the FCC public process—including two million that stole the identities of real people, a crime under New York law,” Schneiderman said in an announcement today. “Yet the FCC is moving full steam ahead with a vote based on this corrupted process, while refusing to cooperate with an investigation.”

Some comments were submitted under the names of dead people.

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