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  1. The Right Coast

    How Clinton emerged from WikiLeaks hack largely unscathed | McClatchy DC

    By Thomas A. Smith

    ORLANDO, Fla. The emails are full of potential damage for Hillary Clinton. She weighed the political implications of policies. She is close to Wall Street. Her aides gathered information to…

  2. The Right Coast

    Top Russian Officials Shift Away From Denying Involvement in DNC Hack – WSJ

    By Thomas A. Smith

    Top Russian officials on Wednesday shifted away from denying a role in hacking the Democratic National Committee, with President Vladimir Putin saying it is irrelevant who stole the computer records…

  3. Data Protection Report

    Sixth Circuit: Suit Challenging Data Breach Caused by Hacking May Proceed

    By NRF Digital Team

    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit concluded that certain allegations of harm after a data breach caused by hacking are sufficiently concrete to confer Article III standing. This…

  4. John Flood's Random Academic Thoughts (RATs)

    What Happens When the NSA Gets Hacked?

    By John Flood

    My colleague, Adrian McCullagh, and I published a story on Medium.com about the NSA hack by a group called the Shadow Brokers.Shadow Equations: Where IT Security FailsEveryone now lives on…

  5. Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider

    Hackers Dubbed ‘Ghoul’ Targeting Industrial Businesses across the Globe

    By Linn Foster Freedman

    Researchers at Kapersky Labs say they have uncovered an industrial hacking scheme that they have dubbed “Operation Ghoul” that has hit 130 organizations in 30 countries. Kapersky says Operation Ghoul…

  6. The Trade Practitioner

    Trade Talk: Week in Review (25-31 July 2016)

    By Trade Practitioner

    Russia – Hacking Allegations; FBI Investigates.  Last week, law enforcement officials reported the FBI and Justice Department are investigating a hack of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign computers, along with their…

  7. The Right Coast

    Tailgunner Hillary and the Putin Hack | Observer

    By Thomas A. Smith

    On July 24 Hillary Clinton s campaign manager Robby Mook carefully avoided naming his sources when he told when he told ABC s This Week host and former Bill Clinton administration…

  8. Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider

    Turkish hackers claim hacking into Library of Congress website

    By Linn Foster Freedman

    A hacking group that has dubbed itself the “Turk Hack Team” is taking credit on an online message board that it hacked into the Library of Congress website and hosted…

  9. The Right Coast

    FBI investigating suspected Russian hack of DNC emails – CNNPolitics.com

    By Thomas A. Smith

    (CNN)The FBI on Monday confirmed they are investigating a hack into the Democratic National Committee, the first acknowledgment from the agency that they are probing the incident, which US officials…

  10. Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider

    Major League Baseball investigating Cardinals-Astros hacking

    By Linn Foster Freedman

    Promptly following the sentencing of Christopher Correa [see related post] on July 18, 2016, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred announced that Major League Baseball (MLB) is looking further into the…