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Lt. Col. Jacob Sweatland faced a year in jail until a civilian court gave his case to the DoD. An Army merely reprimanded him and now his court records are sealed. Continue reading An Army Officer Faced Jail Time for Spying on Girls. Then the Pentagon Stepped In.
The following are domai…Rewards for Justice – Dancho Danchev was first posted on December 1, 2023 at 12:16 pm.©2021 "". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your f… Continue reading Rewards for Justice – Dancho Danchev
A few days ago, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) came out with a 5-0 unanimous vote on its position on right to repair. (PDF) It’s great news, in that …read more Continue reading FTC Rules on Right to Repair
Federal authorities have just sold the rare Wu-Tang Clan album, ‘Once Upon a Time in Shaolin,’ to an unknown buyer. Continue reading Feds Sell Pharma Bro’s Wu-Tang Record, Won’t Say to Whom or for How Much
The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday announced that an unnamed defendant has pleaded guilty in connection with a cyberattack that rocked the internet in 2016. The October 2016 distributed denial-of-service attack affected Dyn, an internet infrastructure company, before rippling out to cause outages for sites including Twitter, Netflix, Spotify, AirBnb and Reddit, among others. DDoS attacks typically occur when attackers access a network of hacked computers, then direct those connections to a single point on the web, overwhelming the target with traffic and knocking it offline. In this case, the defendant in question conspired with others in September and October 2016 to leverage an offshoot of an army of hackers computers known as the Mirai botnet, the Justice Department said Wednesday. The malicious tool relied on connected video cameras, recorders and other devices to carry out the incident. Authorities withheld the name of the defendant because they were a […]
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The Department of Justice said Thursday that it seized approximately $1 billion worth of bitcoin, its biggest cryptocurrency seizure ever. The announcement solves a a years-old mystery about the shuttered Silk Road dark web market for illegal drugs and other unlawful goods, widely regarded as the largest and most extensive dark web marketplace of its time before its 2013 demise. The law enforcement action solves another riddle about a bitcoin wallet that just saw a nearly identically valued amount of cryptocurrency withdrawn after sitting dormant for a long time. “The successful prosecution of Silk Road’s founder in 2015 left open a billion-dollar question. Where did the money go?” said U.S. Attorney David Anderson. “Today’s forfeiture complaint answers this open question at least in part. $1 billion of these criminal proceeds are now in the United States’ possession.” Motherboard reported Wednesday on the Election Day emptying of the wallet. Then the complaint, filed Thursday, detailed […]
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Senior Analyst Kate Doyle of George Washington University’s National Security Archive testified today in a case of wide-ranging consequences for the perpetrators of murder, targeting six Society of Jesus priests (known worldwide as the Jesuits), their… Continue reading Justice For The Six Executed Jesuits
Today I saw a tweet quoting Mark Guzdial’s blog saying “In last five years, little progress in increasing the fraction of American CS BS degree recipients who are African Americans.” It is a problem I’ve given quite a bit of thought to, but in my… Continue reading Computer Science and Diversity
‘Million dollar dissident’ Ahmed Mansoor’s actions protected millions of iPhone users from sophisticated spyware. If you care about your privacy and security, you should be fighting for his release. Continue reading The Guy Who Saved Your iPhone From Hackers Is Stuck in a UAE Jail
Federal regulators are trying to lower sky-high phone rates for inmates and their families, which advocate say reduces recidivism. Continue reading Americans Don’t Care About Prison Phone Exploitation, Says FCC Official