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Texas police are looking for any data stored by gunman Devin Patrick Kelley, who was found with an iPhone after he killed himself. Continue reading Apple served with warrant for Texas mass killer’s iCloud data
Deputy US Attorney General speaks out to support encryption backdoors Continue reading FBI “should not be reluctant” to challenge encryption in court
On Oct. 8, 2017, David Patterson, Sr. died on a reservation in New Mexico. Patterson was one of the last surviving World War II “Navajo code talkers” employed by the government because of the unique method of communication which, to the outside world, was undecipherable. Communications of the Navajo, even if intercepted, could not be..
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Tiernan was involved in the development of the botnet for 14 months until he was raided by the FBI Continue reading No jail time for botnet creator who promises to go straight
A Pennsylvania-based day trader who broke into victims’ online securities brokerage accounts and placed unauthorized trades was indicted Wednesday on hacking and fraud charges. Between Sept. 2014 and May 2017, Joseph Willner, 42, is accused of being part of a larger conspiracy that stole money from victims’ accounts in order to fund authorized trades. Willner and co-conspirators allegedly hacked into victims’ accounts and bought publicly-traded stock from Willner at artificially high prices. “After using the victims’ accounts to purchase the stock, Willner and his co-conspirators then re-purchased the stock from the victims’ accounts at market or below-market prices,” a Department of Justice release said. “This series of fraudulent trades usually took place within minutes, and Willner immediately profited based on the difference between his artificially high short sale price, and the lower price at which he subsequently re-purchased the stock.” Federal prosecutors say the scheme earned over $700,000 in profit and resulted in […]
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It’s not exactly plaintext copies of all your communications, but that doesn’t make it OK Continue reading US government wants “keys under doormat” approach to encryption
Washington is waiting and watching for the Department of Justice to weigh in on the newly introduced Active Cyber Defence Certainty (ACDC) Act, a controversial proposal to legalize companies’ ability to “hack back” after being targeted in cyberattacks. Speaking at CyberTalks in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, DOJ special counsel Leonard Bailey said the department is still looking at the House bill, and he commended co-sponsors Tom Graves, R-Ga. and Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz. for taking a years-long discussion “and actually producing legislative text.” “We look forward to thinking about that and figuring out what that balance looks like,” Bailey said. The DOJ’s position on ACDC is crucial because the bill would amend the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) as well as requiring law enforcement oversight and reports to the government by “entities that use active-defense techniques,” Graves explained last week when the newest version of the bill was introduced. NSA Director Adm. Mike Rogers warned Congress in May […]
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The battle between the United States and Russia over Russian cybercrime suspect Alexander Vinnik’s extradition from Greece was complicated on Wednesday when a Greek court ruled in favor of the Russian effort to extradite Vinnik over the U.S. effort. Russian media outlet RIA Novosti reports that Vinnik will face charges of fraud in Russia on the scale of around $11,000. This week’s ruling follows another ruling by a separate panel of Greek judges that agreed to send Vinnik to the U.S., which seeks to extradite him on charges that he ran the cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e and engaged in money laundering to the tune of $4 billion. Vinnik’s fate will fall to Greece’s Supreme Court where a hearing will take place within the next three weeks. Greece’s justice minister Nikos Paraskevopoulos has the final say in where Vinnik ends up. Vinnik, 37, pleaded not guilty all charges. He has repeatedly fought for extradition to Russia where he faces far less serious […]
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The case against the Russian cybercrime suspect Alexander Vinnik opened in a Greek courtroom on Friday with two world powers sparring over who will extradite the Russian citizen. Vinnik, 37, pleaded not guilty to charges from the United States that he ran the cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e and engaged in money laundering at the scale of $4 billion. His lawyer is fighting extradition to California where federal charges were filed against him. He was arrested on those charges while he vacationed in Greece over the summer. A decision on the U.S. request is set to be made by Oct. 4. Vinnik, a Russian national, also faces charges in Russia in a separate fraud case that will reach a Greek court next week. Vinnik’s lawyer said he won’t fight that extradition request, indicating a preference of Moscow over the United States. The U.S. Justice Department describes Vinnik as the man behind BTC-e, […]
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The Department of Justice has excused its insider threat database from multiple provisions of the 1974 Privacy Act Continue reading DOJ lets itself off the privacy hook