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How Washington outsider Jimmy Carter wooed voters tired of Vietnam and WatergateSUNRISE, Fla. — Nikita Kucherov scored before he was ejected for kneeing Matthew Tkachuk, and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Florida Panthers 4-0 in a chippy game on Monday night. Jake Guentzel and Mitchell Chaffee also scored for Tampa Bay in its fifth win in six games. Brandon Hagel had an empty-netter, and Anthony Cirelli and Victor Hedman collected two assists apiece. Jonas Johansson made 36 saves in his first shutout of the season and No. 4 for his career. Florida had won four in a row, including a 4-2 victory at Tampa Bay on Sunday. Tkachuk had to be helped off the ice and to the dressing room after Kucherov crashed into his right leg late in the first period. Kucherov was given a five-minute major penalty and a game misconduct for the hit, and Tkahcuk returned a couple minutes into the second. Sergei Bobrovsky made 25 stops for the Panthers. Takeaways Lighting: Hagel scored a short-handed goal with 5:42 left. The Lighting allowed two short-handed goals in the opener of the home-and-home set. Tampa Bay Lightning right wing Mitchell Chaffee (41) scores against Florida Panthers goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky (72) during the first period of an NHL hockey game Monday, Dec. 23, 2024, in Sunrise, Fla. Credit: AP/Rhona Wise Panthers: Went 0 for 4 on the power play. They got off to a slow start and then played better in the second period, but couldn't finish their offensive chances. Key moment Chaffee made it 3-0 with his seventh goal of the season 16:24 into the first period. It was Tampa Bay's ninth power-play goal in December and No. 26 on the season. Key stat The Lightning were assessed nine penalties for a total of 37 minutes, and the Panthers were called for nine penalties for 26 minutes. Up next Both teams return to action on Saturday after the league's holiday break. The Panthers host Montreal, and the Lightning host the New York Rangers.
In a year filled with spectacular performances and intense competition on the WTA Tour, the battle for the coveted title of WTA Player of the Year was as tight as ever. After careful consideration and assessment of the players' achievements throughout the season, the prestigious award was ultimately bestowed upon Aryna Sabalenka, leaving Zheng Qinwen narrowly missing out on the honor.
Online criminals have stolen $950,000 that was earmarked for the rehabilitation of public housing in Marin City, the Marin Housing Authority said. The money was part of $3 million the county loaned to the housing agency in March for the work at Golden Gate Village. “We are actively working to identify funding sources to replace what was lost,” said Kimberly Carroll, director of the Marin Housing Authority. Carroll vowed that the theft would not prevent the Marin City project from proceeding. “We won’t stop the forward process of our renovation,” Carroll said. “We can’t. That has to continue.” She also provided assurances that the breach would have no effect on the people living in apartments the authority oversees. “We want to assure our clients and stakeholders that no services will be impacted,” Carroll said, “and there will be no reduction in the funding or resources dedicated to our programs.” Jason Balderama, a county technology official, has started working as consultant for the housing authority to coordinate the investigation and advise on how to strengthen its internet defenses. Balderama has enlisted the assistance of the California Cybersecurity Integration Center and the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, as well as submitting a report to the FBI. “It’s an ongoing investigation,” Balderama said. “They’re still trying to determine if they can pinpoint the exact root cause.” Carroll said investigators suspect the criminals used a “phishing” attack to gain access to several email accounts belonging to the agency’s employees, including hers. Phishing is an online scam in which attackers use emails, text messages or phone calls to trick people into revealing sensitive information such as their usernames and passwords. “It’s unfortunately a very common occurrence,” Balderama said. He said some of the housing agency’s email accounts were particularly vulnerable because they lacked “two-factor authentication,” a security procedure that combines two forms of identification to guard against unauthorized access. In addition to the typical username and password, it adds a second factor, sometimes a code sent via text message. Carroll said the scammers managed to gain access to six email accounts belonging to housing authority employees. Then, using the emails to pose as employees, they hijacked two large payments meant for Burbank Housing, the agency’s development partner for the Marin City project. Burbank is overseeing pre-development work for the project, determining what repairs need to be made to the 300 residences at Golden Gate Village. The housing authority has a $1.4 million contract with Burbank for the work. “The bad actors probably accessed our email accounts in July,” Carroll said. “But we didn’t find out until September.” Carroll said the $950,000 in payments to Burbank were dispatched in two large tranches. The first one went out in late August. “We sent it out to them,” she said. “We followed all of our protocols. We never heard from Burbank that they didn’t get the money until about three weeks later.” Carroll said Burbank notified the housing authority it hadn’t received the August payment on Sept. 16, about two or three days after the agency had dispatched the second tranche. “That was gone in a flash,” she said. Burbank Housing could not be reached for comment. Balderama said the odds are long that authorities will identify the thieves or recover the funds. He said the perpetrators might be based in the United States, or they could be located in any number of countries, including India, China and Russia. “It’s so easy to get private VPN service that the threat actors can make it look like they’re coming from basically anywhere,” Balderama said, referring to virtual private networks. A VPN shields its users from identification by encrypting their data and masking their internet protocol addresses. Carroll said the housing authority still has about $1.6 million left with which to move forward with the rehabilitation of Golden Gate Village. “We may have a conversation with the county to see if we would be able to borrow additional funds to help get us through if we need that,” Carrol said. Marin County Executive Derek Johnson, however, said there has been no discussion of the county shouldering any of the $950,000 loss. “Marin Housing Authority is assuming full responsibility and has committed to looking for alternative sources to recover the $950,000,” Johnson wrote in an email. “We anticipate MHA will be able to repay the $3 million loan as planned.” Earlier this month, following Johnson’s recommendation, the Board of Supervisors approved spending $500,000 for an organizational and operational assessment of the Marin Housing Authority, the Marin County Community Development Agency and the Marin County Department of Public Works. At the time, Johnson said he envisioned the county providing the housing authority assistance with finance, personnel and information technology. Both Johnson and Carroll said Monday that the plan for the assessment was formulated before the discovery of the $950,000 theft. “This breach underscores the need for the agency to undergo an organizational assessment to make sure it’s utilizing resources in the most efficient way, and also has the organizational structure, security, systems, and procedures in place to deliver high quality service and achieve its mission,” Johnson wrote. The crime was the largest theft of Marin public funds since Eric Faulks, a former county official, embezzled $1.9 million from the rental assistance program. Faulks pleaded guilty to four counts of grand theft and began serving a six-year prison sentence in November 2022. Since 2020, two Marin County Civil Grand Jury reports have examined the level of internet security preparedness in the county. The first came after the county experienced at least five hacks from July 2017 through August 2018. The fifth attack concluded with the hacker conning the county’s finance office into wiring $309,000 to the hacker’s bank accounts. The county managed to recover approximately $63,000. After the 2020 report, Marin County created what is now known as the Marin Security and Privacy Council (MSPC). Originally formed to provide internet security information and best practices to Marin’s municipalities, the council has been expanded to include nonprofits and other private organizations. 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