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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ICANN downplays Site Hacks but launches an internal investigation
July 07, 2008
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is speaking out about a recent round of attacks perpetrated against its sites.
Hackers compromised a pair of mirror sites for the company and redirected users to a page taunting ICANN and claiming 'we control the domains.' The attacks were attributed to Turkish hacker group NetDevilz.
The attack was particularly embarrassing for ICANN as it came just days after the group approved a plan to open new domains for registration by the public.
According to ICANN, the hackers pulled off the attack by infiltrating systems run by ICANN's registrar. The hackers compromised the DNS servers and redirected requests for two of the group's domains.
The company noted that the attacks were only directed towards mirror sites, and that the main .org site was never compromised or altered in any way.
"It would appear the attack was sophisticated, combining both social and technological techniques, but was also limited and focused, ICANN said in a statement.
"The redirect was noticed and corrected within 20 minutes; however it may have taken anywhere up to 48 hours for the redirect to be entirely removed from the Internet."
Later, a separate group of attackers used what ICANN described as an " automated attack" to exploit a vulnerability in WordPress and compromise the site's blog. The company does not believe that the two incidents were related.
ICANN said that it will launch an internal investigation on both attacks in order to determine possible safeguards against future attacks.
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