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Minister of State for Communications Ossian Smyth said the threat to publish data on Monday was being taken as genuine. âThat deadline about Monday did appear on the same [dark web site] as where the decryptor appeared, so it can be assumed it is a genuine threat.â
The Stateâs Cyber Security Incident Response Team, part of the National Cyber Security Centre, IT teams from the HSE and FireEye, the Stateâs security contractor, are to work through the weekend. There is optimism that progress can be made on debugging a decryption key sent by the cybercriminals, which can be used to make a digital tool to help decrypt systems.
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The FBI is working with data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) to help notify people and businesses if their accounts were affected by the Emotet botnet, the site reports.
Earlier this year, law enforcement officials around the world conducted an operation to seize control of Emotet s infrastructure. Following the takedown, the FBI contacted HIBP to see whether the service might be an effective means of alerting affected individuals and companies, according to a blog post by HIBP creator Troy Hunt.
As part of this collaboration, the FBI shared more than 4.3 million email addresses, spanning a range of countries and domains, which came from two sources of data the FBI obtained during the takedown. These include email credentials that Emotet stores for sending spam via email service providers and Web credentials from browsers that had stored them to accelerate logins. Given their remediation is similar, both have been categorized as a single breach in HIBP, H
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Marshalltown Police Chief Mike Tupper participates in the commemoration of 100 years of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation. He spoke of the many wonderful people he had met in that agency during his law enforcement career, and wondered where Marshalltown would be without them.
DES MOINES Marshalltown Police Chief Mike Tupper joined Gov. Kim Reynolds on Friday as she led a special DCI 100th Anniversary commemorative event at the Iowa Statehouse to recognize the centennial along with Special Agent In Charge and DCI100 Chairperson Adam DeCamp, Special Agent and State Senator Dan Dawson and Department of Public Safety Commissioner Stephan Bayens.
Bonnie Parker, left, and Clyde Barrow, leaders of the notorious Barrow gang, were pursued by the Iowa Bureau of Criminal Investigation in 1933.
DES MOINES, Iowa – On April 9, 1921, the Iowa Legislature bestowed authority in Attorney General Ben Gibson to establish the Bureau of Criminal Investigation, a centralized law enforcement agency specializing in providing cost-free support to local law enforcement agencies.
From these humble beginnings, with just a handful of agents and a budget of $37,000, the bureau has grown into the Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI), which provides a full spectrum of criminal investigation services from investigative field operations to forensics analysis to support to the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission.