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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2 Million Users infected by zero-day exploit in IE
December 17, 2008
A massive bug is going around the internet infected Internet Explorer browsers and taking over over computers.
Hackers around the world are taking advantage of a software flaw and doing all they can to mess with people and steal personal information.
The security hole affects many different builds of IE 5, 6, and 7 as well as the beta version of IE 8. Every recent version of Microsoft's operating system is potentially affected: Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Server 2003, and Server 2008.
The Redmond software giant acknowledged on Dec. 16 that more than two million Windows users had already become infected via the IE flaw, according to an article by the Press Association. How many more people will get hit before the patch is widely distributed is anyone's guess. There's no easy way to secure IE against similar flaws that will inevitably be discovered and used by hackers to their advantage in the future. For this reason, Switch to Firefox, Opera, Chrome, or another contender and configure it to be your default browser. Use IE only to visit sites that require Microsoft-specific technology — probably because they rely on ActiveX to function. (For example, you need to use IE to download patches at the Windows Update site.)
I recommend Firefox because of the numerous add-ons available for that browser and it is the most secure.
If you need any more evidence that weaknesses in IE can be rapidly used by hackers, take a look at a wiki pageprovided by the Shadowserver Foundation, a security group that lists sites known to be infecting unsuspecting visitors.
An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by constructing a specially crafted Web page. When a user views the Web page, the vulnerability could allow remote code execution. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the logged-on user.
: Do not visit any of the sites on the list, even if you think your browser is secure — these sites are or were infectious. They could steal information out of your computer without your knowledge.
The point is that thousands of sites became carriers within days, and millions are infected.
(The Press Association quotes Trend Micro as saying more than 10,000 sites were compromised by Dec. 16th)
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