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BAREFOOT LAKE Neighbors react to chaos at Barefoot Lake Imagine being scared to leave your home on the weekends. Ana and Anrik understand the feeling all too well.
CAPE CORAL The story of Ollie’s Pub and what kept it open through years of hardships Before Ollie’s housed weekly events, packed to the brim with artwork and home to many, it was a simple dream and an empty space.
Most Wanted Wednesday: Southwest Florida’s most wanted suspects for May 1, 2024 Here are some of Southwest Florida’s most wanted suspects for May 1, 2024.
FORT MYERS BEACH Remembering Fort Myers Beach ‘Mayor’ Brad Benson To know Brad Benson was to know a legend. He recently passed away at the age of 71 after battling health issues.
CAPE CORAL Proposed Cape Coral City Council meeting time change fails In a 4 to 4 vote, the motion to move Cape Coral meeting times from 4:30 to 9 a.m. failed.
Greater Dunbar initiative begins A duplex that has been around since the 1960s and is filled with generations of memories is being demolished.
Caught on camera: funnel clouds, hail and more during thunderstorm Wednesday’s thunderstorms storms have produced hail and funnel clouds.
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA New mammography guidelines Breast cancer is much easier to treat when it’s caught early.
CAPE CORAL Cape Coral church picking up the pieces after massive fire Calvary Connection ministries is unrecognizable after a massive fire swept through a Cape Coral Complex on Monday.
CAPE CORAL Day Two of FEMA code compliance hearings in Cape Coral Another 50 people were summoned Wednesday for the second day of code compliance hearings before the special magistrate.
PUNTA GORDA Cracking down on vapes in Charlotte County schools Vaping is taking over, and that’s why three Charlotte County High schools are testing out vape sensors.
State lawmakers want to hear your opinion on voting in Lee County Right now, everyone votes for or against all five of the Lee Commissioners, but they’re talking about changing the system so that each commissioner represents a specific part of the county.
FORT MYERS Migrants entering Florida under controversial parole program The House Committee on Homeland Security has released documents, which show a surge in migrants entering the United States through a parole program, sparking debate over immigration policies and border security.
North Collier firefighter beats cancer, educates others on safety He’s a father, son, friend and mentor, but for the last four years, he’s been in a battle for his life.
CAPE CORAL Man arrested in connection to brother’s death in Cape Coral A man wanted for questioning in the death of his brother at his Cape Coral home has been arrested in Pennsylvania.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The indictment charging seven Iranian hackers with attacking dozens of banks and a small dam near New York City is part of a strategy to “name and shame” foreign governments that support such attacks, the Justice Department’s top national security official said Friday. Where punishing cyberattacks were once investigated mostly for intelligence purposes, U.S. officials are increasingly investigating them with an eye toward building a criminal prosecution and identifying by name the hackers believed responsible – and the foreign nation sponsoring them. “We need to show that these are not anonymous, that there’s no free pass because you do it behind a keyboard in a country far away,” Assistant Attorney General John Carlin, the head of the department’s national security division, said in an interview with The Associated Press. U.S. officials say the strategy, in place since 2012, also is demonstrated in indictments two years ago linking Chinese military hackers to economic espionage of American corporations and in the public blaming of North Korea for a cyberattack against Sony Pictures Entertainment. The goal, Carlin said, is to have a new “sheriff” patrolling a cyberspace that he says has long resembled the Wild West, where foreign hackers have acted with impunity. “If you let someone walk across your lawn long enough and don’t tell them to stop, they get the right to walk across your lawn,” he said. It’s hard to prove the strategy’s effectiveness. It’s unclear whether any of the Iranian hackers will ever be apprehended. The five Chinese defendants indicted on similar charges in May 2014 have yet to appear in an American courtroom, leading to criticism that the cases make a publicity splash but have little practical impact. But government officials say their tactic can at least put foreign governments on notice that their actions are being watched, trap the defendants in their home countries and encourage a more frank dialogue. Some officials and experts, for instance, see a link between the Chinese hacking case and an agreement with the U.S. last year to curb economic cyberespionage. “The Chinese response over the last 10 years was we don’t hack. Now (you) have the president of China saying, ‘We’re going to make changes’,” said Shawn Henry, a former FBI executive assistant director and president of CrowdStrike Services, a technology services company. In publicly announcing charges, federal officials have likely deterred the hackers from ever traveling. In other cases, though, prosecutors have brought charges under seal that were unveiled only after the targeted defendant unwittingly traveled. That was the case with Su Bin, a Chinese businessman arrested in Canada two years ago and who pleaded guilty Wednesday to hacking U.S. defense contractors and stealing military information. The most recent case, announced Thursday, accuses Tehran-linked hackers of reaching into the U.S. infrastructure and disrupting its financial system. It was the first time the FBI attributed a breach of a U.S. computer system that controls critical infrastructure to a hacker linked to a foreign government. The intrusions between 2011 and 2013 targeted 46 victims, disabling bank websites and interfering with customers’ ability to do online banking, the indictment states. The entire coordinated campaign occurred sporadically over 176 days and cost the institutions tens of millions of dollars in remediation costs; no customers lost money or had their personal information stolen. The hackers worked for two Iranian computer companies linked to the Iranian government, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the U.S. said. Charges include violating U.S. laws on computer hacking and gaining unauthorized access to a protected computer. Iranian officials in Tehran could not be immediately reached for comment amid the country’s celebration of the annual Nowruz holiday, which marks the Persian New Year and the arrival of spring. Iran’s mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Iran has previously been suspected in hacking attempts. A Wall Street Journal report in November linked Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to similar hacking and phishing attempts targeting the email and social-media accounts of Obama administration officials.