Tag: Doj
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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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Feds shut down bogus COVID-19 vaccine site
A free coronavirus vaccine from the World Health Organization (WHO), for only $4.95 to cover shipping costs?!? Nah, we didn’t think so, …
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How to gather cyber threat intelligence from dark markets without breaking US law
The U.S. Department of Justice’s Cybersecurity Unit has released guidelines for organizations that want to gather cyber threat …
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Privacy Experts Skeptical of Proposed Data Protection Agency
A new Data Protection Agency would overhaul federal regulation efforts around data privacy – but experts are skeptical that the U.S. …
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Google & Apple pushed to reveal gun scope app users’ names to feds
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is looking into illegal exports of a gun scope, and its investigation includes going after …
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Facebook gets its wrist slapped $5b for fumbling our data, confirms FTC
It’s been confirmed: insiders said last week that Facebook would be wrist-slapped with a $5 billion fine for losing control of users’ …
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NASA Says $700 Million in Rocket Failures Caused by Fraudster Company
A company that supplied faulty parts to NASA, which caused rocket launch failures in 2009 and 2011, pleaded guilty to fraud, the agency …
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FBI burrowing into North Korea’s big bad botnet
The US has infiltrated, mapped, and poked a stick into the spokes of Joanap: what it claims is a botnet of hijacked Microsoft Windows …
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NSA staffer takes top-secret hacking tools home ‘to study’, gets 66 months
Taking work-related documents home to study might get you a promotion and pay raise at some jobs, but not when your employer is the …
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Deterrence or waste of time? Experts at odds over DOJ’s actions on North Korea
In the wake of the Department of Justice charging a North Korean computer programmer with crimes related to various cybersecurity cases, …
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Proposed US law would require President to act against overseas hackers
US senators from both sides of the housee have announced a bill that would force the President to act against overseas hackers found …
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