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Google, Microsoft, Cisco Systems and others want appeals court to deny immunity to Israeli company for its alleged distribution of spyware and illegal cyber-surveillance activities. Continue reading Tech Giants Lend WhatsApp Support in Spyware Case Against NSO Group
I had 2 gmail accounts (where I had the same generic random first name and other words and random letters that I was made to put in to get them). Both of them contained no personal information of mine.
I was logging onto one of them 2 week… Continue reading Can google be compelled to reveal my identity for something like this? [closed]
The fourth quarter of 2020 has seen some significant legal developments when it comes to digital evidence. In this issue (which also happens to be the anniversary of the inaugural Forensic Focus Legal Update), we highlight:
Search warrant reform &he… Continue reading Forensic Focus Legal Update December 2020: Refining Search & Seizure; New Laws & Guidance
In September, Forensic Focus was invited to sit in on a meeting of the Scientific Working Group on Digital Evidence (SWGDE). The third and final meeting of 2020 was held virtually — just as the previous meeting, in June, had … Read more Th… Continue reading Community In Collaboration: The Scientific Working Group On Digital Evidence
All law enforcement and most of state bureaucracy are allowed to access my personal ID. Shopkeepers often ask "can I have your debit card so I can swipe it"; police has full authority over an arrestee’s things(including the CSV c… Continue reading What stops employees with legitimate access to private data from using it criminally? [closed]
A foreign hacker sentenced to 20 years in U.S. prison for giving the Islamic State the personal information of about 1,300 U.S. military and government personnel has been given a compassionate release by a federal judge due to the coronavirus pandemic. Ardit Ferizi, who was arrested in 2015 at age 19 in Malaysia and later extradited to the U.S., must spend two weeks in quarantine before deportation by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, according to the order from Judge Leonie M. Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia. Brinkema agreed with a request from Ferizi saying that his asthma and obesity put him at greater risk for contracting COVID-19. Ferizi will be deported to his home country of Kosovo, where he has a support network of family, the judge said. The judge expressed confidence that U.S. officials will be able to monitor his conduct online, given how quickly he was […]
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Im under the Indian jurisprudence and this is what the Indian Information Act of 2000/66F says on the matter,
Indian Information Act 2000/66F
Punishment for cyber terrorism.– Whoever,– with intent to threaten the unity, integrity, secur… Continue reading Is using proxies to circumvent rate limit to scrape data legal? [migrated]
I’ll try to keep this short. I am involved in a defamation civil lawsuit. I did not author the posts, but the plaintiff believes I did and seems to be doing everything in their power to make it seem like I did.
Every time there is an event… Continue reading Can someone create a fake phone number and impersonate my IP address?
I will try to provide some context first, so please bear with me for a moment – I apologize if it’s lengthy.
A few months ago, I was approached by a UK-based recruitment agency to do an IT consulting engagement for their client (based in a… Continue reading I almost walked away from a high-value consulting gig over passport scan requirement – am I being paranoid? [closed]
Amazon has recently dismissed multiple employees for leaking customer data including their email addresses to an unaffiliated third-party. The company has sent out an email announcement to the affected customers following the incident. […] Continue reading Amazon sacks insiders over data leak, alerts customers