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Port Chester School Board Removes President Corbia for Racist Facebook Posts and for Lying About Being Hacked

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Former Port Chester School Board President Tom Corbia

Will He Now Be Removed from County Job?

By Dan Murphy

The Port Chester School Board, after months of pressure from the community at large, voted 3-1 at a special meeting on April 14 to remove President Tom Corbia from his position of leadership and power. Corbia, who has served for 10 years on the PC School Board, had defied the Superintendent, Mayor of Port Chester, and other officials and leaders in Village by not explaining racist, bigoted and insensitive Facebook posts attributed to his account, nor complying with his own vow to prove that his social media account had been hacked.

The post in question, on September 16, 2020, appeared on Facebook. “I’m selling my white privilege card. It’s just over 77 years old and it hasn’t done a damn thing for me. No inheritance, no free college, no free food, no free housing, etc. I may even be willing to do an even trade for a race card. Those seem way more useful and more widely accepted. Interested? Contact me on my non-obama (sic) cell phone that I have to pay for every month. Serious inquiries only.”

Underneath this post came a response from the Facebook account of Tom Corbia which read, “You are the f******* best and whoever doesn’t like that post, well they know what they can do.”

The special meeting to remove Corbia took less than 10 minutes, with BOE Trustees Chrissie Onofrio, Luigi Russo and Christopher Wolff voted yes to remove, while BOE Vice President  Anne Capeci voted no.

Capeci briefly commented, explaining her vote by saying, “I don’t disagree with everything in the findings, but it certainly doesn’t warrant removal from this board. When you compare Mr. Corbia’s past record in the district as a teacher, as coach, as a community activist and member working with children,  I cannot vote for this resolution”

There was no other comment by Board members regarding Corbia’s removal, only a statement from the Board attorneys.  “This was a difficult process for the Board of Education and the Port Chester community. The board appreciates your patience. We understand that not everyone in the community will…

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FBI operation removes malware from U.S. computers

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April 13 (UPI) — After Microsoft revealed last month that Chinese state-sponsored hackers had attacked networks in the United States through its popular email and calendar server, prosecutors said the FBI has erased remaining malicious code from hundreds of private U.S. computers.

Microsoft in early March announced it found Chinese hacker group HAFNIUM had exploited vulnerabilities in its Exchange servers that enabled access to email accounts and allowed for the installation of malware on computers that permitted long-term access.

The Justice Department said in a statement Tuesday the group exploited the issues through January and February and once the vulnerabilities were publicized last month, other groups sought to take advantage.

Patches and updates were successful in removing most of these web shells from infected computers, but hundreds remained until Tuesday when the FBI removed them through the court-authorized operation, it said.

“Today’s court-authorized removal of the malicious web shells demonstrates the department’s commitment to disrupt hacking activity using all our legal tools, not just prosecutions,” said Assistant Attorney General John C. Demers for the Justice Department’s National Security Division.

The Justice Department explained the operation removed the early web shells through issuing a command through them to the server that was designed to cause the server to delete the web shells.

The FBI is attempting to contact via email those whose computers they deleted the web shell from, it said.

The Justice Department added that though the operation was a success, it did not patch Microsoft’s vulnerabilities or search and remove any additional malware or hacking tools that may have been placed on the victims’ networks.

“There’s no doubt that more work remains to be done, but let there also be no doubt that the department is committed to playing its integral and necessary role in such efforts,” Demers said.

The Microsoft hack came months after Russian state-sponsored hackers breached several federal agencies including the Department of Homeland Security through SolarWinds products.

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Facebook removes 2 hacking groups from Bangladesh, Vietnam

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(MENAFN – IANS) p>New Delhi, Dec 11 (IANS) Facebook has removed two hacking groups operating from Bangladesh and Vietnam from its platform that were distributing malware and compromising people’s accounts across the Internet.

The Bangladesh-based group targeted local activists, journalists and religious minorities, including those living abroad, to compromise their accounts and have some of them disabled by Facebook for violating its Community Standards.

“Our investigation linked this activity to two non-profit organisations in Bangladesh: Don’s Team (also known as Defense of Nation) and the Crime Research and Analysis Foundation (CRAF). They appeared to be operating across a number of internet services,” said Nathaniel Gleicher, Head of Security Policy, and Mike Dvilyanski, Cyber Threat Intelligence Manager at Facebook.

APT32, an advanced persistent threat actor based in Vietnam, targeted Vietnamese human rights activists locally and abroad, various foreign governments including those in Laos and Cambodia, non-governmental organisations, news agencies and a number of businesses with malware.

“Our investigation linked this activity to CyberOne Group, an IT company in Vietnam (also known as CyberOne Security, CyberOne Technologies, Hanh Tinh Company Limited, Planet and Diacauso),” Facebook said in a statement late on Thursday.

APT32 has deployed a wide range of adversarial tactics across the internet.

“The people behind these operations are persistent adversaries, and we expect them to evolve their tactics. However, our detection systems and threat investigators, as well as other teams in the security community, keep improving to make it harder for them to remain undetected,” said Gleicher.

–IANS

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