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US Department of Labor obtains judgment to recover $47K in back wages, damages after Louisiana security company denied overtime to 58 workers

August 15, 2023/in Mobile Security

Sentinel Security Group Inc. assessed $7K in civil money penalties

SHREVEPORT, LA – While security workers sometimes face daunting challenges on the job in return for a median national wage of just $15.13 per hour, 58 industry workers are closer to getting wages owed to them by their Shreveport employer thanks to an action brought by the U.S. Department of Labor.

In May 2023, the department obtained a consent judgment in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, Shreveport Division, ordering Sentinel Security Group Inc. to pay $23,841 in back wages and an equal amount in liquidated damages to the affected employees.

The court’s action follows a 2021 lawsuit the department filed after the company refused to comply with the findings of the department’s Wage and Hour Division. Investigators determined Sentinel Security Group denied overtime to the affected employees by not combining hours employees worked at more than one location, in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act’s overtime provision.

“Sentinel Security Group deprived 58 workers of their overtime pay by ignoring their responsibilities under federal law,” said Wage and Hour Division Regional Administrator Betty Campbell in Dallas. “The recovery of back wages and damages will help these employees support themselves and their families.”

The department also filed a separate action in administrative court and obtained consent findings that require the company to pay $7,317 in civil money penalties for Sentinel’s repeat violations.

“Compliance with the law is not optional. Employers cannot repeatedly disregard the law, and the U.S. Department of Labor will take legal action when employers like Sentinel Security Group refuse to pay employees their rightful wages,” explained Regional Solicitor of Labor John Rainwater in Dallas. “This case’s resolution shows employers that there can be costly consequences for defying the laws.”

In fiscal year 2022, the Wage and Hour Division recovered more than $3.9 million for more than 4,600 people employed in guard services after over 600 investigations nationwide.

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Hacking Crypto Wallets Is Latest Strategy in Quest to Recover Lost Billions

February 14, 2023/in Computer Security

Early statistics on ether (ETH), the second-biggest cryptocurrency by market cap, are harder to come by. However, data provided to CoinDesk by Crypto Asset Recovery shows that 7% of presale wallets have never had any crypto move – suggesting the ETH in those wallets have just been sitting there, untouched, ever since the Ethereum blockchain went live in 2015. That’s 621 of the 8,893 wallet addresses, or 521,574.608 ETH (roughly $875 million today).

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What Suffolk County has to do to recover from crippling cyberattack

October 8, 2022/in Computer Security

The costly, painstaking process of rebuilding Suffolk County’s computer networks in the wake of a ransomware attack may be complicated by uncertainties about how the attack occurred, how much data was lost and whether hackers can re-exploit vulnerabilities, experts say.

One month after BlackCat AlphV’s intrusion on Suffolk networks was discovered and the county was forced to stop it with measures as blunt as physically pulling network cables from their sockets, only parts of the vast system of police, court, health department and real estate systems are back online, some in limited form. Email and phone systems were widely affected, and a source with knowledge of the situation said there are questions about whether years of email records can be restored.

“You have to make a determination on how to wall off your network,” said Mike Balboni of the Manhattan consulting firm Redland Strategies, which has been a computer security contractor to the county. He declined to discuss specifics of the attack.

Suffolk’s main vendor for firewalls, PaloAlto Networks, also declined to discuss what happened.

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The process of rebuilding Suffolk County’s computer networks in the wake of a ransomware attack may be complicated by uncertainties about how the attack occurred, how much data was lost and whether hackers can re-exploit vulnerabilities, experts say.
The Sept. 8 attack infiltrated departments across the county system, impacting the ability of the police to write tickets and the government to make payments to vendors and local governments.
Only parts of the vast system of police, court, health department and real estate systems are back online, some in limited form.

“For this story, we’re not going to be able to assist with your questions, but I appreciate you reaching out,” Kelly Kane, PaloAlto senior manager for threat communications, said in an email.

The Sept. 8 attack infiltrated departments across the sprawling county system, from the Department of Health to the county clerk, affecting the ability of the police to write tickets and the government to make payments to vendors and local governments and provide certain real estate records…

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