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CNN reports:
The FBI arrested a Canadian cybersecurity executive and ransomware expert as part of the investigation of a damaging hack that exposed the sensitive data of current and former FBI employees, according to court documents and people familiar the investigation. Edward Dubrovsky was arrested in the Philadelphia area in recent days... Dubrovsky is facing charges related to extortion and making threats. He has been transferred to Texas's Eastern District for a scheduled detention hearing, according to court records and a law enforcement official.
FBI Director Kash Patel announced the arrest on Friday but did not disclose where it occurred or what role the man is suspected of playing in the hack. Patel also didn't name Dubrovsky, but CNN confirmed the defendant is believed to be tied to the FBI hack through multiple people familiar with the investigation... A LinkedIn profile under Dubrovsky's name lists years of experience in the Canadian cybersecurity industry and describes Dubrovsky as a 'globally recognized cybersecurity expert.' An Ed Dubrovsky is also the author of a book on handling ransomware negotiations with cybercriminals...
There has also been an inquest at the FBI over how such a critical security lapse happened. The FBI determined that a contractor managing the bureau's jobs portal failed to update software "explicitly issued to secure the platform," [senior FBI cyber official, Brett Leatherman said last week]. The FBI has "removed the contractor," he said. The software in question is a human-resources platform made by Oracle, ShinyHunters has said. The hackers previously used a flaw in the software to attack targets in the education sector in May and June, according to Google's Threat Intelligence Group. But months later, the FBI contractor apparently still had not applied a security patch that was available for the software.
"The inmate locator at the U.S. Bureau of Prisons website reports that a 54-year-old Edward Dubrovsky is currently being held at a federal facility in Philadelphia," reports security researcher Brian Krebs.
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 for sharing the news.
The FBI arrested a Canadian cybersecurity executive and ransomware expert as part of the investigation of a damaging hack that exposed the sensitive data of current and former FBI employees, according to court documents and people familiar the investigation. Edward Dubrovsky was arrested in the Philadelphia area in recent days... Dubrovsky is facing charges related to extortion and making threats. He has been transferred to Texas's Eastern District for a scheduled detention hearing, according to court records and a law enforcement official.
FBI Director Kash Patel announced the arrest on Friday but did not disclose where it occurred or what role the man is suspected of playing in the hack. Patel also didn't name Dubrovsky, but CNN confirmed the defendant is believed to be tied to the FBI hack through multiple people familiar with the investigation... A LinkedIn profile under Dubrovsky's name lists years of experience in the Canadian cybersecurity industry and describes Dubrovsky as a 'globally recognized cybersecurity expert.' An Ed Dubrovsky is also the author of a book on handling ransomware negotiations with cybercriminals...
There has also been an inquest at the FBI over how such a critical security lapse happened. The FBI determined that a contractor managing the bureau's jobs portal failed to update software "explicitly issued to secure the platform," [senior FBI cyber official, Brett Leatherman said last week]. The FBI has "removed the contractor," he said. The software in question is a human-resources platform made by Oracle, ShinyHunters has said. The hackers previously used a flaw in the software to attack targets in the education sector in May and June, according to Google's Threat Intelligence Group. But months later, the FBI contractor apparently still had not applied a security patch that was available for the software.
"The inmate locator at the U.S. Bureau of Prisons website reports that a 54-year-old Edward Dubrovsky is currently being held at a federal facility in Philadelphia," reports security researcher Brian Krebs.
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 for sharing the news.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
WASHINGTON (ANP/AFP) - De Verenigde Staten hebben toestemming gegeven om maximaal 4 miljoen vaten ruwe olie vrij te geven vanuit de strategische reserves. Daarmee moeten de leveringsproblemen worden opgevangen die de storm Isaias in het zuidoosten van het land heeft veroorzaakt.
De storm kwam vrijdagavond (lokale tijd) aan als orkaan in de staat Florida. De olieproductie in het gebied rond de Amerikaanse Golfkustregio is ernstig verstoord geraakt door Isaias. Energieminister Chris Wright zei dat de oliebedrijven ExxonMobil en BP als onderdeel van de "noodruil" elk maximaal 2 miljoen vaten krijgen "om de raffinaderijactiviteiten in stand te houden". Volgend jaar moeten ze ruwe olie teruggeven aan de reserves. Daarbij moeten ze volgens het ministerie van Energie een "premie" betalen boven op de geleende hoeveelheid.
Sinds de oorlog tegen Iran is eerder al een beroep gedaan op de strategische reserves van de VS. De voorraad is inmiddels gedaald tot het laagste niveau sinds 1982.
ROTTERDAM (ANP) - De politie geeft nog geen nieuwe informatie over de brandstichting zaterdag langs het spoor bij Rotterdam. "Het onderzoek naar de brandstichting en wie betrokken zijn, is volop gaande. Dat vraagt tijd", meldt de politie zondag.
In de nacht van vrijdag op zaterdag was brand gesticht bij een spoorbrug in Rotterdam, niet ver van station Schiedam Centrum. Onbekenden hadden een toegangsdeur naar een technische ruimte opengeslepen. Daar ontstond het vuur. Daardoor kunnen er in elk geval tot zondagavond geen treinen rijden tussen Rotterdam en Delft.
Spoorbeheerder ProRail zegt dat er in ieder geval sprake is van opzet, maar weet niet waarom de brand is gesticht. De politie houdt onder meer rekening met de mogelijkheid dat het om sabotage en kattenkwaad kan gaan.
SANAA (ANP/AFP) - Zeker 109 migranten zijn om het leven gekomen toen een boot met migranten kapseisde voor de kust van Djibouti. Nog eens 116 mensen worden vermist, meldt persbureau AFP op basis van een verklaring van de Internationale Organisatie voor Migratie.
Gibney, 77, will face justice for abusing athletes in the 1970s and 80s after decades of effort to track and extradite him
More than half a century after he started sexually abusing children, and enjoyed prestige as Ireland’s Olympic swimming coach before fleeing to the United States, George Gibney is to face justice.
The 77-year-old is to be sentenced at the central criminal court in Dublin on Monday for abusing four young female athletes in the 1970s and 1980s.
Continue reading...US president Donald Trump says he is weighing whether the US will join Saudi strikes against the Iran-backed Houthis
There’s been a strong condemnation of this morning of the Houthi’s deadly strike on Saudi Arabia’s largest airport. Global leaders say attacks on civilians must stop.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said he was “deeply shocked” by Saturday’s strike.
Continue reading...
HPE is extending its AI-powered networking automation across its hybrid cloud portfolio. That news came from Rami Rahim, formerly CEO of Juniper Networks and now president and general manager of HPE's networking business, whom The Register met last week when he visited Australia. Rahim champions what HPE calls "self-driving networks" – AI-assisted monitoring and automated remediation, part of the broader field known as AIOps. The networking boss thinks AIOps will mean human network administrators soon won't need to work on any trouble tickets. "I think we're now at probably around 70 to 80 percent of all tickets don't require human intervention," Rahim said. "Within two to three years, we'll have no issues that require humans." He allows that hardware swaps will be the exception to that rule, but even for that job he thinks skilled network administrators shouldn't be involved. "The technology should, without your knowledge, order a new part. It comes in the mail and you don't need an IT person, just an intern can come and take this thing, attach it to where the failed device is, and everything else just happens automatically." Why you'll trust your career to a machine The Register asked why net admins should trust AIOps, given that following bad advice issued by a machine is unlikely to improve anyone's career prospects. Rahim responded by pointing out that self-driving taxis have quickly become widely accepted in the Bay Area, and that first-time riders draw on their past experience of adopting cars with automatic transmissions, then cars with cruise control, lane assist, and self-driving capabilities. Each successive experience of automation working safely, he suggested, imparts confidence to try new forms of automation. "And so what we do is we give the operators the ability to turn on actions, automated actions, feature by feature, and capability by capability," he said. Simple jobs like allowing AI to reboot a port on a switch is a fine place to start, he suggested. The metrics he uses to measure the success of automation are the number of tickets lodged about poor Wi-Fi performance and the speed with which they are fixed. "I think if you look at the number one trouble ticket that is filed in a typical enterprise environment, it is 'the Wi-Fi sucks.'" "Regardless of what the actual problem is – it could be an application going down, or a WAN issue, or a cloud provider issue – the experience is first felt through Wi-Fi and therefore it's as simple as 'The Wi-Fi sucks.'" Rahim thinks AI will figure out why Wi-Fi isn't at its best quicker than a human can do the job and also use agents to fix it faster. Those agents, he suggested, make automation even more important because they represent a new class of users that are dependent on networks. "We're quickly approaching a realm in which every enterprise has way more agents working than humans working, and they need a reliable network connection to do their work," he said. Organizations can't scale their human teams to a size at which they solve problems fast enough to manage all those connections. And because agents make so much traffic, buyers will need to add more networking hardware, which will further scale networks to a size no human can hope to manage alone. Only AI, Rahim believes, will make it possible to use AI. A 'networking company'? Of course he would say that, given that he claims HPE's networking portfolio and AI capabilities are second to none since it closed the acquisition of Juniper in July 2025. The Register covered that moment with the headline "HPE-Juniper deal closes, integration questions remain." Rahim assured us it's going swimmingly, pointing to the fact that HPE continues to sell Wi-Fi access points that started life as products from Aruba and Juniper – but that users can now drive them with management tools from either vendor. He proudly pointed to that becoming possible within 18 months of the acquisition closing, then made a sharp reference to certain other vendors taking far longer to achieve the same thing. The Register mentioned Cisco and Meraki: Rahim didn't show any signs of disagreement. Asked about HPE CEO Antonio Neri's statement on the company's last earnings call that "we are at the core becoming a networking company," Rahim emphasized networking's importance across workloads. "When you look at the AI datacenter, it's become as much a networking problem as it is a compute problem. So I just believe that networking is becoming more important in general for the industry, and it's certainly becoming more important for HPE as a company," he said. Which is why HPE is now bringing the self-driving network tech that started life at Juniper to the rest of its portfolio. "We've already, for example, integrated our network fabric management capabilities with OpsRamp, which is the observability software for the hybrid cloud stack," Rahim said. "So that would be an example of something that's now done. But more and more pieces will come along the way." ®
