Florida Teen Arrested For Massive Twitter Hack, Prosecutors Say
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Florida Teen Arrested For Massive Twitter Hack, Prosecutors Say

Mary Rose Corkery A 17-year-old from Tampa, Florida, was arrested Friday for allegedly carrying out the massive Twitter hacking scam on July 15, according to WFLA. Graham Ivan Clark was arrested Friday around 6 a.m. and faces 30 felony charges in the alleged scam, which prosecutors have dubbed the “Bit-Con” hack, according to a press release from…

Cali College Forced To Pay Hackers Thousands To Get Its Data Back
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Cali College Forced To Pay Hackers Thousands To Get Its Data Back

By Eric Lieberman A Los Angeles college paid hackers $28,000 to remove infected software from its computer systems after cybercriminals took the school’s data hostage. The perpetrators infiltrated the servers of the Los Angeles Valley College (LAVC) and issued ransomware–a type of infected software designed to take over a computer system and then block access for the…

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House Intelligence Chair: ‘No Proof’ Russians Were Trying To Get Trump Elected

By Russ Read The intelligence community has no proof Russia hacked the 2016 presidential election to get Donald Trump elected, according to the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. “There’s no proof that we have from intelligence sources that I’ve seen that show that the Russians were directly trying to help Trump,”…