DoJ unhappy with light sentence handed down to Capital One hacker
Paige Thompson, who was found guilty by a jury in June of wire fraud, unauthorized access to a protected computer and computer damage, was sentenced to a five-year probation with location and computer monitoring, and U.S. Attorney Nick Brown says the penalties are unsatisfactory. Thompson was notorious for, among other things, raiding financial services company […]
Hackers broke into U.S. military contractor, stole sensitive data
A joint alert by CISA, the FBI, and the NSA revealed a cyberattack in which spies hid and stole sensitive data from a U.S. contractor’s corporate network for several months. It remains unknown how the hackers broke into the defense organization’s Microsoft Exchange Server. The warning said that the threat actors spent hours searching mailboxes […]
Micron to invest up to $100 billion to build a chip factory in New York
Micron Technology announced that it will spend $20 billion to build the largest semiconductor factory in the United States, and that it could spend up to $100 billion over the next 20 years to develop it. The plant, which will be located in New York will be the size of 40 American football fields, create […]
