Category: crime

US conducts criminal investigation into Facebook’s data deals

Post author By Randall
Post date March 13, 2019
Categories In Apple, crime, data, Facebook, gear, htc, Internet, investigation, law, Microsoft, newyork, Privacy, Samsung, social network, social networking, socialnetwork, socialnetworking, Sony, Tech
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[ad_1] Facebook acknowledged the investigation to the Times, stating that it was “cooperating with investigators” and was taking probes “seriously.” The deals typically revolved around making it easier to fill out contacts, share content and otherwise integrate Facebook with devices and websites. There’s a concern that these deals weren’t always transparent to everyday users, though. […]

US arrests cryptocurrency exec over ‘multibillion-dollar’ fraud

Post author By Randall
Post date March 11, 2019
Categories In crime, Cryptocurrency, fraud, gear, Internet, konstantin ignatov, konstantinignatov, onecoin, pyramid scheme, pyramidscheme, Tech
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[ad_1] OneCoin is still running, and has apparently been very lucrative. The firm made about €2.2 billion ($2.5 billion) in profit just between 2014 and 2016, according to the US Justice Department. A third defendant already charged in the scheme, Mark Scott, was said to have laundered over $400 million through banks in places like […]

Iranian hackers stole terabytes of data from software giant Citrix

Post author By Randall
Post date March 9, 2019
Categories In breach, citrix, crime, Cyberattack, cybercrime, data breach, databreach, fbi, gear, Hack, hacking, Internet, iran, iridium, Nasa, resecurity, Saudi Arabia, saudi aramco, saudiarabia, saudiaramco, Security, Tech
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[ad_1] Resecurity understood that hackers from Iridium, an Iran-linked group, stole data in December 2018 and again on March 4th. They made off with at least 6TB of documents and as much as 10TB, and they seemed to be focused on project data for the aerospace industry, the FBI, NASA and Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil […]