Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Matt Giles| Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 10:30:00 +0000
More than a dozen men threatened, assaulted, tortured, or kidnapped 11 victims in likely the worst-ever crypto-focused serial extortion case of its kind in the US.
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Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra, Andrew Couts| Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 22:15:21 +0000
AWS hosted a server linked to the Bezos family- and Nvidia-backed search startup that appears to have been used to scrape the sites of major outlets, prompting an inquiry into potential rules violations.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 15:55:24 +0000
Gutted of civil rights protections by Democrats to woo pro-business Republicans, the American Privacy Rights Act was pulled from a key congressional hearing—and appears unlikely to receive a full vote.
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Credit to Author: Vittoria Elliott| Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 17:35:10 +0000
A custom platform developed by SITU Research aided the International Criminal Court’s prosecution in a war crimes trial for the first time. It could change how justice is enacted on an international scale.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 13:09:29 +0000
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has agreed to plead guilty to one count of espionage in US court on Wednesday, ending a years-long legal battle between the US government and a controversial publisher.
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Credit to Author: Todd Feathers| Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 11:00:00 +0000
How accurate are gunshot detection systems, really? For years, it’s been a secret, but new reports from San Jose and NYC show these systems have operated well below their advertised accuracy rates.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000
The most notorious deepfake sexual abuse website is hosting altered videos originally published as part of the GirlsDoPorn operation. Experts say this new low is only the beginning.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 09:00:00 +0000
With cyberattacks increasingly targeting health care providers, an arduous bureaucratic process meant to address legal risk is keeping hospitals offline longer, potentially risking lives.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: Alleged Apple source code leaks online, cybercrime group Scattered Spider’s alleged kingpin gets arrested, and more.
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Credit to Author: Eric Geller| Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 20:15:00 +0000
Using a Trump-era authority, the US Commerce Department has banned the sale of Kaspersky’s antivirus tools to new customers in the US, citing alleged threats to national security.
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