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  • City releases redacted report examining Mobile police practices

    By Brendan Kirby

    MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - After hours of close-door briefings Tuesday, the city of Mobile has released a redacted copy of a report examining policing practices in the city.

    Mayor Sandy Stimpson commissioned the report in the wake of a string of incidents involving citizens who have died during violent encounters with Mobile police officers.

    Former U.S. Attorney Kenyen Brown conducted the probe at Stimpson’s request after four people died last year during violent encounters with police.

    Council members discussed the report – in the context of pending and likely litigation – in closed session or several hours on Tuesday. And then Brown briefed Stimpson and his administrative team Tuesday afternoon – during the council’s later-than-usual public meeting.

    For all the anticipation of that report, Tuesday’s public meeting largely was ho-hum. Council members did not mention it, although several people referenced it during the citizen comments portions of the meeting.

    Council members decided at their pre-meeting session Tuesday morning that they would not vote on either of two resolutions involving suspended Police Chief Paul Prine. The first, proposed by Stimpson, would remove Prine from office. The second, proposed by District 2 Councilman William Carroll and Council President C.J. Small, would initiate a 90-day council-led investigation into allegations Prine has made about possible perceived improprieties involving high-level administration officials.

    Several people brought signs of support of Prine to the meeting and a few spoke on his behalf. Mobile resident Melissa Gates said she was eager to see Brown’s report.

    “I’m kind of excited when we get the report to see what’s really going on,” she said. “But it seems to me, to the average citizen in Mobile, that y’all are attacking Chief Prine. And that’s just the way we see it.”

    Timothy Hollis, a Mobile activist, blasted Stimpson and Barber.

    “The mayor and Chief of Staff Barber have been at the helm of chaos in our city until the entire term of this administration,” he said.

    A majority of council members indicated earlier Tuesday that they did not see how the relationship between Prine and the administration could be repaired and indicated that they were ready to act on the mayor’s resolution next week if Prine did not accept a settlement offer.

    Prine, who attended the public meeting, told reporters that it was not about saving his job.

    “Whether it’s done three months from today, you know, I am a short-termer,” he said. “If the council decides to terminate me, I still retire.”


     See more here: City releases redacted report examining Mobile police practices (fox10tv.com)

  • Hard-Fought Ukraine Aid Package on Verge of Passage

    WASHINGTON—The Senate was on the verge of passing a long-delayed $95.3 billion foreign-aid package that would send much-needed ammunition and military equipment to beleaguered Ukrainian soldiers and fortify Israel’s missile defense systems, while also forcing the sale of Chinese-controlled TikTok in the U.S. 

    Read the rest of the story here: Hard-Fought Ukraine Aid Package on Verge of Passage  - WSJ

  • Russian cyber attackers hack Texas Panhandle drinking water and flood town in first-ever raid by 'Kremlin aligned' group

    Russian hackers claiming to be backed by the Kremlin are believed to have remotely accessed a Texas town's water tower. 

    The suspected hack in the Texas Panhandle town in January would be the first-ever disruption of a US drinking water system by Russia, after Iran and China carried out similar attacks.

    The hack in Muleshoe, a community of 5,000 not far from the New Mexico border, led to the tower overflowing with thousands of gallons for almost an hour, leading to a state of emergency to be declared.

    The hacking group allied with the Russian government identified themselves as the Cyber Army of Russia Reborn (CARR).

    The group posted a video on Telegram of the town's water-control systems being manipulated, showing how they reset the controls.

    'We're starting another raid on the USA. In this video there are a couple of critical infrastructure objects, namely water supply systems,' the message in Russian said, capped by a smiley face emoji. 

    The video then shows the hackers changing values and settings for the utilities' control systems. 

    The group has previously conducted DDoS attacks on Ukrainian organizations and government agencies. 

    It's unclear what effects the manipulation has had, but several local officials have acknowledged the cyberattacks, while confirming some form of disruption.

    The city manager for Muleshoe, instance, reportedly said in a public meeting that the attack on the town's utility is what caused the tank to overflow.    

    Officials in the nearby towns of Abernathy, Hale Center and Lockney also said they'd been 'affected,' with the well system for the former seen in the interface shown on the Telegram screen recording

    All three towns reportedly disabled the software overseeing their utilities to prevent its exploitation, but officials in each locale also insisted service to customers in each case was never explicitly interrupted. 

    That wasn't the case for residents of Muleshoe, whose seminal water tower hemorrhaged water for somewhere between 30 and 45 minutes before operators were finally able to address the issue, doing so manually

    Footage from the scene January 18 showed the damage left behind within that span, with thousands of gallons of fresh water seen going to waste.

    The FBI is currently investigating the hacking activity, one of the officials told CNN. 

    A seasoned cybersecurity specialist from Google-owned Mandiant, meanwhile, told The Washington Post the hack was indeed the work of CARR - an org perhaps better known by its pseudonym of Sandworm.

    The State Department has issued multimillion-dollar bounties for the capture of those associated with the group, known for briefly turning out the lights in parts of Ukraine on at least three occasions.  

    They were also able to hack the Olympics Opening Games in South Korea in 2018, and are credited with the creation of an advanced malware that was able to  briefly shut off a Chernobyl safety system in 2017.




    READ MORE: Russian cyber attackers hack Texas Panhandle drinking water and flood town in first-ever raid by 'Kremlin aligned' group | Daily Mail Online

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