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.
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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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Microsoft Corp. issued six security patches in a regular update Tuesday, among them fixes for flaws that could let hackers hijack computers using a web browser.
The software maker gave four of the security updates its most urgent critical rating.
Within that group, Microsoft used a single update to fix several separate flaws found in different versions of the Internet Explorer web browser, including the most recent, IE7.
That patch blocks any attempts by attackers to put fake content into the address bar of a web browser - a technique used in phishing scams to convince web surfers that a fake site is actually their bank, for example.
The patch is also meant to prevent hackers from breaking into web surfers computers using specially crafted web pages.
There has always been this escalating arms race between hackers and security professionals, said Ben Greenbaum, a senior manager at Symantec Security Response. Lately, the stakes are higher. People are losing actual money due to attacker activities.
The three other critical patches also help keep hackers from breaking into users computers to steal information or install malicious software.
One fixes a problem with Kodak Image Viewer, formerly known as Wang Image Viewer, used on computers that run Windows 2000 or that were upgraded from Windows 2000.
Another critical patch fixes a flaw in the way newsgroups are handled by Outlook Express and Windows Mail. The third protects users of Microsoft Word 2000 and 2004 and Office for Mac 2004 from malicious Word documents.
Microsoft also issued two important patches - the software makers second-most-urgent rating - related to Windows, Office and Sharepoint.
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