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Lead prosecutor in Aequitas fraud trial lands job with Boeing
Assistant U.S. Attorney Ryan Bounds helped prosecute former Aequitas executives. He recently joined Boeing as in-house counsel.
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Survey finds Oregonians underinsured, worried about health coverage
43% of Oregon voters surveyed say they’re underinsured, causing them to delay or cancel needed care.
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Downtown Portland coffee chain opening third location
40 Lbs Coffee Bar will open inside the lobby of the Aspect building, its third downtown Portland cafe.
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Indian National Pleads Guilty to $37 Million Cryptocurrency Theft Scheme
An Indian national has pleaded guilty in the U.S. over charges of stealing more than $37 million by setting up a website that impersonated the Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange platform. Chirag Tomar, 30, pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. He was arrested…
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4-Step Approach to Mapping and Securing Your Organization’s Most Critical Assets
You’re probably familiar with the term “critical assets”. These are the technology assets within your company’s IT infrastructure that are essential to the functioning of your organization. If anything happens to these assets, such as application servers, databases, or privileged identities, the ramifications to your security posture can be severe. But is every technology asset…
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Davis leads tight Wasco Co. DA race
May 21 Primary updated results
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Researchers Warn of CatDDoS Botnet and DNSBomb DDoS Attack Technique
The threat actors behind the CatDDoS malware botnet have exploited over 80 known security flaws in various software over the past three months to infiltrate vulnerable devices and co-opt them into a botnet for conducting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. “CatDDoS-related gangs’ samples have used a large number of known vulnerabilities to deliver samples,” the QiAnXin…
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WordPress Plugin Exploited to Steal Credit Card Data from E-commerce Sites
Unknown threat actors are abusing lesser-known code snippet plugins for WordPress to insert malicious PHP code in victim sites that are capable of harvesting credit card data. The campaign, observed by Sucuri on May 11, 2024, entails the abuse of a WordPress plugin called Dessky Snippets, which allows users to add custom PHP code. It has over 200 active installations.
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TP-Link Gaming Router Vulnerability Exposes Users to Remote Code Attacks
A maximum-severity security flaw has been disclosed in the TP-Link Archer C5400X gaming router that could lead to remote code execution on susceptible devices by sending specially crafted requests. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-5035, carries a CVSS score of 10.0. It impacts all versions of the router firmware including and prior to 1_1.1.6. It has 
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Bill Walton, a legendary Portlander and Trail Blazer, dies at 71
One of the sport’s most distinct personalities, Walton helped bring Portland one of the city’s greatest points in time.
