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CITGO Awards First Responder Grants

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CITGO Lemont Refinery is awarding eight grants this year totaling $60,000 to agencies in Lemont, Ill., Lockport, Ill., and Romeoville, Ill.

By Zhane Isom |

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CITGO Petroleum Corp’s. Lemont Refinery is awarding first responder grants as part of a new program. The CAER First Responder Grant Program was created in 2021 by the CITGO Community Awareness Emergency Response (CAER) Council.

“We appreciate what our local first responders do for our community, and we are excited to be able to continue this grant program,” stated Dennis Willig, CITGO Lemont vice president and general manager.

The refinery is awarding eight grants this year totaling $60,000 to agencies in Lemont, Ill., Lockport, Ill., and Romeoville, Ill. Two of the grants will be used to replace AEDs at the Lemont Fire Protection District and Lemont Park District. Another grant will be used to help fund the search and rescue drone program at the Lemont Emergency Management Agency.

Lockport Township Fire Protection District will receive a grant for a new confined space supplied air system, while Lockport Police Department will receive a grant for new digital speed signs in an effort to increase awareness and prevent traffic incidents.

In Romeoville, Ill., a grant will fund paramedic school for two students through the Romeoville Fire Department. The Romeoville Police Department will also receive a grant to fund a mobile security camera system.

Will County Emergency Management Agency is also receiving a grant through the program to upgrade its “Ready Will County” app, which will provide emergency alerts and resources to residents.

The CITGO Lemont Refinery CAER Council was formed back in 2002 to share information and increase understanding and cooperation between CITGO, community leaders and communities regarding safety, the environment and emergency response. The council is made up of police, fire, other community leaders and refinery leadership and meets quarterly to share important information. CAER has been such a success that the CITGO Corpus Christi Refinery in Texas has started its own CAER group based on the Lemont Refinery model.

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7-Zip zero-day vulnerability grants privilege escalation

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PSA: A security researcher recently discovered a vulnerability in the file archiver 7-Zip that could grant attackers high privileges and let them execute code. Developers haven’t released a patch yet, but users can quickly nullify this security hole in the meantime.

Last week, researcher Kağan Çapar found and published a zero-day vulnerability in 7-Zip that can grant privilege escalation and command execution. Designated CVE-2022-29072, it affects Windows users running version 21.07 — the latest version as of now.

As the video below shows, an attacker with limited access to a system can activate the vulnerability by opening the “Help” window in 7-Zip under Help->Contents and dragging a file with the .7z extension into that window. Any file with that extension will work. It doesn’t have to be a real 7z archive.

By running a child process under the 7zFM.exe process, the vulnerability can elevate the attacker’s privileges and let them run commands on the target system. Çapar blames this on a misconfiguration in the file 7z.dll and heap overflow.

The Windows HTML helper file may also share some blame, as other programs can allow command execution through it. Çapar mentions a similar vulnerability that works through the Windows HTML helper file and WinRAR.

Deleting the file “7-zip.chm” in the 7-Zip root folder can mitigate the issue until devs patch it. It’s unclear when that will be.

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Black Experience on Xfinity to Offer $1 Million in Grants to Emerging Black Filmmakers in Celebration of Its One-Year Anniversary

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PHILADELPHIA–()–Comcast NBCUniversal celebrates the one-year anniversary of Black Experience on Xfinity by announcing plans to offer $1M in the form of ten $100K grants to emerging Black filmmakers. Home to the largest curated collection of independent Black film collection on demand, Black Experience on Xfinity features high-quality content from many of Xfinity’s existing network partners, while investing millions of dollars in emerging talent from the top Black film festivals. Curated by industry leaders, the channel is the only one of its kind endorsed by African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA), the world’s largest group of Black film critics that gives annual awards for excellence in film and television.

Black Experience on Xfinity offers one-stop access to a collection of content that showcases the breadth of Black culture. Available at home on Xfinity X1 and Flex, and on-the-go with the Xfinity Stream app, the Black Experience on Xfinity will entertain, educate, and uplift, featuring Black actors, writers, producers, and directors. At home, Xfinity subscribers can visit channel 1622 or simply say “Black Experience” into the Voice Remote. And for the first time, consumers nationwide will be able to enjoy the ultimate in Black storytelling with the availability of the Black Experience collection on Comcast’s new XClass TV, easily accessible through the platform’s home screen and voice remote.

Click here to view the anniversary video from Comcast and their Black Experience on Xfinity partners

“The launch of Black Experience on Xfinity has been a major investment in the Black creative community and one of the many ways we are leveraging the scale and reach of our platforms to amplify voices that need to be heard,” said Keesha Boyd, Executive Director, Multicultural Video & Entertainment, Xfinity Consumer Services. “In recent years, we have expanded our offering of Black programming to millions of additional Xfinity customers. The Black Experience Channel on Xfinity allows us to shine a spotlight on our existing content partners, while also investing in and distributing original programming from emerging Black content…

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US Judge grants bail to Crypto couple in $4.5 billion hack

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A New York judge granted bail for two people charged with trying to launder billions of dollars worth of Bitcoin stolen in a 2016 hack of the Bitfinex currency exchange.

Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan appeared in a lower Manhattan federal courtroom Tuesday after being arrested at 7am in New York. The US government said it seized about $3.6 billion worth of cryptocurrency from the married couple, the largest financial seizure ever. The two allegedly conspired to launder 119,754 Bitcoin, currently valued at about $4.5 billion, stolen after a hacker breached Bitfinex’s systems.

The government initially asked the judge not to allow them to be released on bail. Each is facing the possibility of a 20-year prison sentence, so they have the motivation to run, a prosecutor told the judge. When the judge indicated she would set a bond, the government requested it be set at $100 million, an amount one of the defense lawyers called “laughable.”

The judge set bail for Morgan at $3 million and asked her parents to post their home as security. For Lichtenstein, bail was set at $5 million.

Lichtenstein, 34, holds dual US and Russian citizenship. He wore jeans and a gray shirt in the courtroom, his brown hair was slightly messy and he sported a paunch. Morgan, 31, appeared in court wearing a white hooded sweatshirt, her long hair down. They both wore masks, as did everyone else in the room, per court requirements.

They looked at the magistrate judge as she read them their rights. Neither of them spoke publicly during this initial appearance. Their lawyers – they have retained separate counsel – did the talking in court.

Morgan, who was born in Oregon and grew up in California, has foreign ties, the prosecutor said. She has lived in Hong Kong and Egypt and is studying Russian, according to her social media. She’s a journalist and economist and travels internationally for work, according to the government. Her father is a retired U.S. government biologist and her mother worked as a librarian….

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