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Hospitals Across England Infected With Ransomware, Leaving Patients Without Care

England’s healthcare system fell victim to a massive cyberattack Friday afternoon, forcing several hospitals to divert emergency patients to other facilities. Ransomware appears to be the cause. At roughly 12:30pm local time, the National Health Service’s (NHS) clinical and patient systems began crashing, with pop-up messages appearing on screens demanding $300 in bitcoin in exchange…

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Huge Trove of Confidential Medical Records Discovered on Unsecured Server Accessible to Anyone

At least tens of thousands, if not millions of medical records of New York patients were until recently readily accessible online to just about anyone who knew where to look. Patient demographic information, social security numbers, records of medical diagnoses and treatments, along with a plethora of other highly-sensitive records were left completely undefended by…

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Rosie O’Donnell Says A Former FBI Agent Changed Her Mind About James Comey

If you thought that President Trump and Rosie O’Donnell finally agreed on something—as the president’s tweets would have you believe—you’d be dead wrong. Despite what she may have stated before, Rosie doesn’t think that James Comey should’ve been fired from the FBI this week. In Twitter direct messages on Thursday, she told Gizmodo that when…

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Trump Finally Signs Overdue Executive Order About ‘The Cyber’

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday aimed at strengthening the cybersecurity of the federal government, according to the White House. A copy of the document distributed to a White House press list and later posted on the White House website details Trump’s first attempt to develop a protocol for defending the U.S.…

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After Firing Lead Investigator, White House Says ‘It’s Time to Move On’ From Russia Investigation

The White House made it almost four hours Tuesday night after the firing of James Comey before its communications staff began demanding an end to the FBI’s Russia investigation. To Sarah Sanders, the White House deputy press secretary, the cyberattacks that laid waste to the president’s political rivals last summer is ancient history, best forgotten:…

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Donald Trump Just Fired FBI Director James Comey

President Donald Trump has just fired James Comey, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In a statement on Tuesday, the White House said that Trump had removed Comey from office acting “on the clear recommendations of both Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.” The rationale for dismissing the director…

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Four Highlights From Yesterday’s Senate Hearing on Russia

Perhaps the biggest takeaway from the Senate hearing on Russia arrived before it even began: Had Donald Trump taken President Obama’s advice back in November, and chosen anyone but Michael Flynn to be his national security advisor, there would have far fewer Americans glued to C-SPAN on Monday. But there were plenty of other intriguing…

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Trump’s White House Was Warned About Michael Flynn’s Lies: Yates

In her highly-anticipated appearance before a Senate subcommittee on Monday, former acting attorney general Sally Yates testified that she had warned the White House that disgraced former national security advisor Michael Flynn had made misleading statements about his contact with a Russian official—and that those lies had been repeated to the American people. Yates was…

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Dark Web Child Porn Kingpin Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison

A Florida man whom the Federal Bureau of Investigation says created the “world’s largest child pornography website” has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. Steven W. Chase, 58, was arrested in February 2015, after a search of his Naples, Florida, home turned up thousands of images depicting the sexual abuse of children, many of…

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Trump ‘Wiretap’ Truther Rand Paul Now Thinks Obama Spied on Him, Too

In a speech at the CATO Institute in Washington DC on Friday, Senator Rand Paul intends to explain why he believes that he and other U.S. lawmakers may have been spied on by the Obama administration. Paul is a steadfast supporter of President Trump’s false claim that his campaign was “wiretapped” by the Obama White…

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The GOP’s Healthcare Plan Will Harm the Most Vulnerable Among Us First

Americans who obtain health insurance through their employers are poised to get screwed by a last-minute amendment to the House Republican healthcare bill. Health policy analysts inform the Wall Street Journal that a provision of the bill would allow states to obtain waivers exempting them from certain Affordable Care Act regulations. Insurers in those states…

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James Comey Testifies He Got Tummy Troubles Over Swaying the 2016 Election

FBI Director James Comey on Wednesday defended his decision to announce the reopening of the Hillary Clinton investigation less than two weeks before the U.S. presidential election—though the thought that he might impact the results, he said, made him “mildly nauseous.” Comey testified during an annual oversight hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee that he…

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FBI’s Disturbing Hacking Powers Challenged in Court Over Child Pornography Case

Arguments were heard in an appeals court on Wednesday involving a controversial government hacking case in which the FBI participated in the distribution of child pornography. This is the most recent legal test of the FBI’s ability to hack any computer, anywhere. In February 2015, the Federal Bureau of Investigation seized control of a server…

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130 Million at Risk of Fraud After Massive Leak of Indian Biometric System Data

A series of potentially calamitous leaks in India leave as many as 130 million people at risk of fraud or worse after caches of biometric and other personal data became accessible online. That’s according to a new report from the Bangalore-based Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), which details breaches at four national- and state-run…

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Barrett Brown’s Lawyers Still Don’t Know Why He Was Abruptly Taken Back to Prison [Update: He’s Out]

The re-incarceration of Barrett Brown has drawn considerable attention since it happened on Thursday, with startled friends and supporters openly accusing the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) of retaliation over the award-winning journalist’s often entertaining essays about his life behind bars. [Brown has been released from custody and in an interview with Gizmodo details the…

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Hospitals Across England Infected With Ransomware, Leaving Patients Without Care

Huge Trove of Confidential Medical Records Discovered on Unsecured Server Accessible to Anyone

Rosie O’Donnell Says A Former FBI Agent Changed Her Mind About James Comey

Trump Finally Signs Overdue Executive Order About ‘The Cyber’

After Firing Lead Investigator, White House Says ‘It’s Time to Move On’ From Russia Investigation

Donald Trump Just Fired FBI Director James Comey

Four Highlights From Yesterday’s Senate Hearing on Russia

Trump’s White House Was Warned About Michael Flynn’s Lies: Yates

Dark Web Child Porn Kingpin Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison

Trump ‘Wiretap’ Truther Rand Paul Now Thinks Obama Spied on Him, Too

The GOP’s Healthcare Plan Will Harm the Most Vulnerable Among Us First

James Comey Testifies He Got Tummy Troubles Over Swaying the 2016 Election

FBI’s Disturbing Hacking Powers Challenged in Court Over Child Pornography Case

130 Million at Risk of Fraud After Massive Leak of Indian Biometric System Data

Barrett Brown’s Lawyers Still Don’t Know Why He Was Abruptly Taken Back to Prison [Update: He’s Out]

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