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Former journalist Matthew Keys, who served two years in prison for posting his Tribune Company content management system credentials online a decade ago in violation of America s Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, has been ordered back to prison for violating the terms of his supervised release.
On Monday, Keys, 34, a resident of Vacaville, California, received an additional six-month sentence and 18 months of supervision with computer monitoring requirements, according to the US Attorney s Office of the Eastern District of California. The sentence follows from a judge s finding that Keyes intentionally deleted a YouTube account he was managing on behalf of his then employer, Comstock’s Magazine.
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By GCN Staff
Jul 19, 2021
Federal agencies are stepping up their efforts to help public- and private-sector organizations protect themselves from attack.
The new website StopRansomware.gov aims to be a one-stop shop where individuals, businesses and other organizations can find resources to help mitigate their ransomware risk.
Launched July 15 by the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security and other federal partners, the site consolidates ransomware information from all federal agencies, reducing the chances organizations miss important information on the latest ransomware-related alerts and threats from DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the Secret Service, the FBI, the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Departments of the Treasury and Health and Human Services.
The U.S. government offers a reward of $10 million in cryptocurrency
The U.S. State Department has proposed a crypto reward of up to 10 million U.S. dollars in exchange for actionable information about cyber attacks carried out by foreign governments. This will be the first time the US government has accepted the use of cryptocurrency to pay for the services provided.
The proposal was made through the U.S. State Department’s Judicial Rewards Program, which is managed by the Bureau of Foreign Security. Because certain network operations targeting critical U.S. infrastructure may violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (FCAA), the State Department is working hard to take measures before an attack occurs.