Twisted Minds - Murder by Ex Policemen
It's an open secret within the tight-lipped world of cybersecurity.
For years, Australian organisations have been quietly paying millions in ransoms to hackers who have stolen or encrypted their data.
Key points:
- One-third of Australian organisations hit by ransomware attacks paid the ransom
- These payments, which encourage further attacks, are typically kept secret
- Experts are calling for mandatory reporting of ransom payments
Australian organisations are quietly paying hackers millions in a 'tsunami of cyber crime'
Democrats look to keep Coloradans’ tax refunds.
MATT TAIBBI: Spying and Smearing is “Un-American,” not Tucker Carlson.
After Obama left office, illegal leaks of classified intercepts became commonplace. Many, including the famed January, 2017 leak of conversations between Michael Flynn and Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak, were key elements of major, news-cycle-dominating bombshells. Others, like “Russian ambassador told Moscow that Kushner wanted secret communications channel with Kremlin,” or news that former National Security Adviser Susan Rice unmasked the identities of senior Trump officials in foreign intercepts, were openly violative of the prohibition against disclosing the existence of such surveillance, let alone the contents.
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the complex systems that allow illicit finance to thrive.
With each global exposé, our partners around the world dig deeper and
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tough questions that perhaps should have been asked by the
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cutting-edge work on this than U.S. intelligence agencies with their
enormous budgets,” U.S. lawmaker Tom Malinowski recently told The New
Republic.
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A four-decade analysis of the 50 richest families in the U.S. by the
Institute for Policy Studies highlights the rise
of “dynastic wealth” and ways to crack down on the tactics
used to guard it.
NAHJ 2021
ICIJ reporter Brenda Medina will be co-presenting a talk on investigative
reporting on Monday, July 12, at 12:30 p.m. EST during the final week of
the National
Association of Hispanic Journalists’ virtual conference.
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