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Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Golden talks global challenges of ransomware


This month, the Mid-Coast Forum on Foreign Relations hosted journalist and author Daniel Golden to discuss the global challenge of ransomware.

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Daniel Golden

The Mid-Coast Forum on Foreign Relations seeks to promote study and discussion of the development, formulation, and implementation of United States foreign policies by means of a program of speakers, the organization of discussion and study groups, and the production and distribution of relevant materials.

Golden, currently a senior editor and reporter at ProPublica, has been part of three Pulitzer Prize teams at the Wall Street Journal, ProPublica and Bloomberg.

He has notably reported on the topics of college admissions, recruitment by universities, asylum-seekers, corporate tax evasion, the U.S. intelligence agencies, and ransomware.

Listen to the talk at: Midcoast Forum, Daniel Golden, December 2022.

Those interested in learning more about the Forum or seeing future speaker events can visit midcoastforum.org. The Maine Monitor will periodically share recordings of the Forum’s talks.

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As UK Charged Daniel Kaye For Cyber-Attack On LoneStar Network, Justice Minister Vows To Get Involve


As the United States Department of Justice arraigned Daniel Kaye, this week, the same person who was approached and hired by Avy Zaidenberg of LISCR, an American citizen to implement the DDOS attack on Liberia, specifically Lonestar MTN, this move comes for his alleged connections to The Real Deal, a dark web market that sold hacking tools and stolen login credentials for U.S. government’s computers.

According to multiple information featured on international news wires noted that  victim management  of Daniel Kaye have begun contemplating plans to launch legal proceedings against Cellcom and Orange Liberia Inc., in relation to the cyber-attack carried out against the company in 2016.

However, our sources further disclosed that one of the culprits, Avy Shah is reportedly on the run amid the trial expected to commence the first week in December, 2022 in London, the United Kingdom

Kaye admitted being hired by a Cellcom operative to launch a cyber-attack on Lonestar in 2016, according to the BBC, Kaye along with Mr. Avishai Marziano, a former Cellcom Telecommunications Limited Chief Executive and Mr. Ran Polani were scheduled to face trial in an English Commercial court in 2019.

In a statement issued at the time, a copy of which was sent to this paper via email, Lonestar Cell MTN confirmed the proceedings against Kaye, saying that it has provided a business impact statement in criminal proceedings against the Briton.

The attack caused considerable damage to Lonestar’s business and disruption to our customers in Liberia. In those circumstances, Lonestar Cell MTN and MTN Group considered it was appropriate and indeed important to provide a business impact statement to explain the impact of the cyber-attack on Lonestar,” a source at the company in an exclusive interview said.

Kaye remains at the heart of a major international investigation into hundreds of acts of cyber sabotage around the world. The National Crime Agency says Kaye is perhaps the most significant cyber-criminal yet caught in the UK.

Kaye was jailed for 32 months at Blackfriars Crown Court in London.  Judge Alexander Milne QC said at the time that Kaye had committed a “cynical” financial crime. He added:…

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Daniel Kaminsky, Internet Security Savior, Dies at 42


In a community known for its biting, sometimes misogynistic discourse on Twitter, Mr. Kaminsky stood out for his empathy. He disdained Twitter pile-ons and served as a mentor to journalists and aspiring hackers. He would often foot a hotel or travel bill to Black Hat for those who could not afford it. When one protégé broke up with her boyfriend, Mr. Kaminsky bought her a plane ticket to go see the young man, believing they were meant to be. (They married.)

He was outspoken when privacy and security were on the line. After the F.B.I. tried to force Apple, in federal court, to weaken the encryption of its iPhones in 2015, James B. Comey, who was then the F.B.I. director, testified to Congress in 2016 that he was not asking for a backdoor, but for Apple to “take the vicious guard dog away and let us pick the lock.”

“I am that vicious guard dog, and that used to be a compliment,” Mr. Kaminsky told this reporter at the time. “The question for Mr. Comey is: What is the policy of the United States right now? Is it to make things more secure or to make them less secure?”

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group that promotes civil liberties, said in a tweet on Saturday that Mr. Kaminsky had been a “friend of freedom and embodiment of the true hacker spirit.” Jeff Moss, the founder of the DefCon and Black Hat hacking conferences, suggested that Mr. Kaminsky be inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame.

Mr. Kaminsky’s generosity extended to his many side projects. When a friend struggled with color blindness, he developed the DanKam, a mobile app that uses a phone’s camera to decipher colors otherwise indecipherable to the colorblind. When his grandmother Raia Maurer, now 97, experienced hearing loss, he refocused his efforts on hearing-aid technology.

And when his aunt, a dermatologist, told him that she could no longer treat under-resourced patients for AIDS-related skin diseases, some potentially fatal, in sub-Saharan Africa and Rohingya refugee camps, Mr. Kaminsky helped develop telemedicine tools for the National Institutes of Health and AMPATH, a health project led by Indiana University that he sought to bring to San Francisco during the coronavirus pandemic.

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