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A $5 billion class-action lawsuit filed in a California federal court alleges that Google’s Chrome incognito mode collects browser data without people’s knowledge or consent. Continue reading Google Faces Privacy Lawsuit Over Tracking Users in Incognito Mode
When employers worldwide instituted remote-work policies to help reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, the impact to entire criminal justice systems — from law enforcement to evidence processing through the courts — was profo… Continue reading Forensic Focus Legal Update: The COVID-19 Edition
Commercial VPN services are gaining a lot of popularity and some of them are heavily advertising their products on social media networks and technology magazines today.
The advantages of using such a service could be privacy from ISPs an… Continue reading What are the potential security risks of using a commercial VPN service?
After doing some research about websites that have been taken down like Silk Road I have been extremely curious about the procedure that the FBI does to take down a website from the Internet.
How do they do it if the website is hosted in … Continue reading How does the FBI seize websites if they cannot use the law? [migrated]
If you haven’t heard from other websites yet, earlier this year a leak of various Nintendo intellectual properties surfaced on the Internet. This included prototype software dating back to the Game Boy, as well as Verilog files for systems up to the Nintendo 64, GameCube and Wii. This leak seems …read more
Continue reading No, The Nintendo Leak Won’t Help Emulator Developers, And Here’s Why
May 14, 2020, Campell, CA: Beware of Bitglass competitor distributing counterfeit Bitglass product brochures to confuse customers.
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Source: https://youtu.be/9t6AGKINw68?t=64
If a person is fired from a normal job, there will more than likely be records of it.
If a COP is fired from his duty, there WILL without a doubt be records of it!
How is it logically possible t… Continue reading How could it possibly be that a US person could’ve been fired from multiple law enforcement agencies and nobody knows about it? [closed]
GitHub has shut down two repositories belonging to the video streaming BitTorrent client Popcorn Time after receiving a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) infringement notice from the Motion Picture Association. […] Continue reading GitHub shuts down Popcorn Time repositories due to MPA DMCA notice
Civil liberties groups on Tuesday asked an appeals court to unseal a federal judge’s ruling that rejected a U.S. government effort to force Facebook to decrypt voice calls. The American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation argue that the public has a right to know about how U.S. prosecutors tried to force Facebook to decrypt the calls in a 2018 investigation of the MS-13 gang, and why a judge rejected the prosecutors’ effort. The Department of Justice is urging the court to keep the ruling sealed, arguing that making it public could compromise ongoing criminal investigations. It is the latest front in a broader standoff between privacy advocates and law enforcement over access to encrypted communications. Law enforcement officials have for years lamented that strong encryption has hampered investigations into terrorists and criminals. But many technologists say any software especially designed for law enforcement access risks weakening security […]
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Nearly three years after one of the largest data breaches in history, state attorneys general still are making Equifax pay. Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healy announced Friday the credit processing company has agreed to pay $18.2 million and update its cybersecurity protocols. The settlement will end claims filed in connection with the company’s failure to stop a 2017 data breach that affected roughly 145 million Americans, including roughly 3 million Massachusetts residents. The announcement comes one day after Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill said his office has agreed to resolve a class action suit against Equifax for $19.5 million. Both settlements come after Equifax agreed in January to pay $380.5 million as part of yet another settlement with U.S. regulators. Equifax also will be required to spend at least $1 billion on improving its data protection capabilities, and may be required to cover an additional $125 million to cover out-of-pocket […]
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