Collaborate Disseminate
The computers at the company I work for recently show the message below during log on.
This computer system is the property of Company. It is for authorised
use only. All activities conducted on and information accessed… Continue reading Can the employer fully access employee data according to EU law? [migrated]
Is it legal to host Servers in DarkNet? it should be
Is it still legal if those Servers are used for criminal activities? Couldn´t one argue that it is not possible for the host to determine what his servers are used for?
Two men accused of participating in the multimillion-dollar Methbot digital-advertising fraud scheme are scheduled to plead guilty in the coming days, according to court filings from the Eastern District of New York. Sergey Ovysannikov and Yevgeniy Timchenko, both originally from Kazakhstan, are scheduled to appear in a federal courtroom in Brooklyn on Sept. 24 and Sept. 25, respectively, to enter plea agreements before Judge Steven M. Gold. Both men initially pleaded not guilty after they were extradited to the U.S. earlier this year. A third man, Methbot’s alleged ringleader, Aleksandr Zhukov, has promised to fight the charges against him. Prosecutors say the operation relied on cybercriminal techniques to defraud companies out of roughly $29 million. Few details of the plea agreements were immediately available. Arkady Bukh, defense counsel for Ovysannikov, declined to say to which counts his client intends to plead guilty. Attorneys for Timchenko did not respond Friday to phone […]
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There has been a lot of news lately about facial recognition use by police forces being banned or that it should be banned.
The obvious example is that a police officer who is motivated by personal reasons to misuse the capa… Continue reading How can Facial Recognition surveilance be misused by police?
A Russian man accused of hacking into U.S. financial networks has agreed to plead guilty in a case that resulted in the theft of information about more than 80 million people. Andrei Tyurin is scheduled to appear in a courtroom in the Southern District of New York on Monday, according to a Sept. 13 court filing from the U.S. Department of Justice. Tyurin is set to please guilty in connection with a 2014 breach at JPMorgan Chase in which hackers made off with data about some 83 million people. Tyruin was charged in the same indictment as Gery Shalon, an Israeli man who allegedly masterminded the Chase hack and other breaches, though that prosecution remains unresolved. Tyurin, now 36, also was accused of participating in a Shalon-led scheme to infiltrate other financial institutions, including E*Trade, and carrying out a securities fraud scheme in which the scammers artificially inflated the price […]
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A 19-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly hacking the websites and “cloud-based accounts” of “world-famous” musicians, stealing their unreleased work, and selling the music for cryptocurrency, U.S. and British authorities announced Friday. The man was arrested in Ipswich, a city in eastern England, after the search of a property there and one in North London, according to an announcement from the Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr., and City of London Police Commissioner Ian Dyson. The Manhattan D.A. investigated the incident after being contacted by the musicians’ management companies and worked with the London police ahead of the arrest, according to the announcement. Authorities did not name the victimized musicians, but City of London officials said they were all American, some of them Grammy-winning, NBC 4 New York reported. Spokespeople for the Manhattan D.A. and the City of London did not immediately respond to questions regarding how much music […]
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A Philadelphia man has pleaded guilty in connection with a scheme to trick a U.S. government website into serving up the president’s tax returns. Andrew Harris, a student who attended Haverford College, admitted in court last week that he used a school computer and the Free Application for Student Aid website to try to access Donald Trump’s financial records. By opening a FAFSA account in the name of a Trump family member and using Trump’s Social Security number, Harris and another student apparently thought the FAFSA page would populate with Trump’s tax data. The attempt failed when the pair found a username and password for Trump already existed. Harris, 24, pleaded guilty on Sept. 5 to two misdemeanor counts of computer fraud. He faces two years in federal prison and a $200,000 fine. Another man, 22-year-old Justin Hiemstra of Minnesota, pleaded guilty last month. FAFSA is run by the Department of Education, […]
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This question was motivated by this 2018 article by the Electronic Frontier Foundation that discusses the findings from the Mark Rettenmaier case.
For a bit of background on that case, this article at ocweekly.com explains
Different countries have different IT security policies. For example: I want to compare USA IT security policies to Malaysia IT security policies.
What methodology should be used to do this comparison?
(The methodology sh… Continue reading what methodology can I use to compare IT security policies of two different countries X and Y? [on hold]
The bizarre legal wrangling in the case of an accused CIA leaker took another turn this week when lawyers for Joshua Schulte asked the court to appoint new representation in the event the existing attorneys need to testify at trial. Defense attorneys, in an Aug. 26 letter, ask Judge Paul Crotty of the Southern District of New York to divide the case and appoint new counsel over “an ethical issue” in the matter. Schulte was charged last year with allegedly leaking U.S. government secrets to WikiLeaks, eventually resulting in the so-called Vault7 files. Later he was charged with conspiring to leak information from jail. The current moves are associated with those accusations. The attorneys now say Sabrina Schroff, who represents Schulte now, and Matthew Larsen, who previously consulted with Schulte, can testify to the defendant’s mental state before the alleged transmission of classified information from within Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center. Understanding Schulte’s […]
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