Tag: Department Of Justice
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Twitter says Android security bug gave access to direct messages
Twitter says a security bug may have exposed the private direct messages of its Android app users, but said that there was no evidence that …
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Garmin global outage caused by ransomware attack, sources say
An ongoing global outage at sport and fitness tech giant Garmin was caused by a ransomware attack, according to two sources with direct …
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‘Cardplanet’ Operator Sentenced to 9 Years for Selling Stolen Credit Cards
A cybercriminal responsible for running a “carding” website on the Dark Web is going to federal prison for nine years for selling …
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Microsoft pitched its facial recognition tech to the DEA, new emails show
Microsoft tried to sell its facial recognition technology to the Drug Enforcement Administration as far back as 2017, according to newly …
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Theft of CIA’s ‘Vault 7’ Secrets Tied to ‘Woefully Lax” Security
A just-released report on the 2016 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) data breach, which lead to the Vault 7 document dump on WikiLeaks, …
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Going dark: encryption and law enforcement
UPDATE, 05/22/2020: In the advent of the EARN IT Act, the debate on government subversion of encryption has reignited. Given that the …
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US Marshals says prisoners’ personal information taken in data breach
A data breach at the U.S. Marshals Service exposed the personal information of current and former prisoners, TechCrunch has …
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Justice Dept. files its first coronavirus takedown: a bogus vaccine website
U.S. federal prosecutors have filed and won a temporary restraining order against a website offering a fraudulent coronavirus vaccine, …
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US threatens to pull big tech’s immunities if child abuse isn’t curbed
The Department of Justice is proposing a set of voluntary principles that take aim at tech giants in an effort to combat online sexual …
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Indictment appears to name Group-IB executive in scheme to sell hacked data
Written by Jeff Stone Mar 5, 2020 | CYBERSCOOP The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday unsealed a 2014 indictment that appears to accuse a …
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Amazon quietly publishes its latest transparency report
Just as Amazon was basking in the news of a massive earnings win, the tech giant quietly published — as it always does — its latest …
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The US government should stop demanding tech companies compromise on encryption
late Tuesday, President Trump criticized Apple for refusing “to unlock phones used by killers, drug dealers and other violent criminal …
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