Billie Winner-Davis, Reality Winner's mother, told Business Insider on Tuesday that President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, is attempting legal representation to aid the former Air Force language analyst contractor and Kingsville native Reality Winner with her case.
Winner pleaded guilty in 2018 to leaking classified National Security Agency information on Russia's alleged efforts to interfere with the 2016 election. She was found guilty of violating the U.S. Espionage Act and sentenced to five years in prison at the Federal Medical Center-Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas.
In 2016 following her separation from six years of active duty, Winner was hired by Pluribus International Corporation under an NSA contract to work out of Fort Gordon, Georgia.
According to ABC News, Winner printed a classified report detailing how Russian hackers allegedly “executed cyber espionage operations” on local election systems and mailed the documents to The Intercept.
She was arrested on June 3, 2017.
Amazing! Thank you. My daughter Reality Leigh Winner is yet another victim of this admin. Doing hard time for bringing the truth to light. #FreeRealityWinnerhttps://t.co/wU0sg3LeRs
Michael Cohen, who pleaded guilty to campaign violations and tax fraud in 2018, began serving his sentence in May 2019 at the federal penitentiary in Otisville, New York.
He has been under house arrest since July over coronavirus concerns.
Military.com stated that Reality’s mother sent a Twitter message that said “Cohen has asked another attorney to look at the case and for opportunities to help.”
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FBI agency's Web site urges users to disable source of security flaw despite Microsoft's patch.
August 07, 2007
A government computer security agency is recommending that Windows XP users consider turning off Windows XP universal plug and play service to close a security hole that can allow hackers to break into a user's computer.
The recommendation, which follows a patch offered last week by Microsoft, was posted on the Web site of the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center after discussions with Microsoft on the vulnerability.
The hole could lead to distributed denial of service attacks and other intrusions, according to the NIPC, which is recommending that universal plug and play, or UPnP, be disabled on systems in which it's not being used. Full directions on how to disable UPnP are included in the NIPC security bulletin. The alert also suggests that system administrators monitor and block ports 1900 and 5000, as increased activity on them can indicate active scanning by hackers seeking vulnerable systems.
Microsoft posted its own "critical" security advisory about the security hole, which also affects Windows 98, 98 SE, and Me when using the UPnP service. The UPnP service allows PCs to discover and use various network based devices such as printers. Windows XP has native UPnP capability, which runs by default on the system. Windows ME also includes native UPnP capability, but it doesn't run by default. With Windows 98 and 98 SE, UPnP must be installed via the Internet Connection Sharing client that ships with Windows XP.
Alan Paller, research director at the SANS Institute, an IT security agency in Bethesda, Maryland, said the new Windows XP vulnerability highlights what has been a constant concern of many users: Software continues to arrive from vendors with major services turned on by default, rather than allowing users to choose the features they want to use. "There's a huge need in the user community to not be given something where everything is broken" as soon as it arrives from the vendor, Paller said. "We're seeing it all over the place."
Users want to see features included in products, he said, but they want to be able to turn them on as needed, not have them installed with every option available from the start, leaving them potentially vulnerable to security problems.
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