Sergiu Gatlan reports: Google has expanded its policies to allow doxxing victims to remove more of their personally identifiable information (PII) from search engine results starting earlier this week. Removing doxxing content (contact info shared online with malicious intent) aims to protect the victims’ privacy and substantial risks of identity theft, financial fraud, and, in…
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Inside the Bitcoin Bust That Took Down the Web’s Biggest Child Abuse Site
Andy Greenberg reports: Early one fall morning in 2017, in a middle-class suburb on the outskirts of Atlanta, Chris Janczewski stood alone inside the doorway of a home he had not been invited to enter. Moments earlier, armed Homeland Security Investigations agents in ballistic vests had taken up positions around the tidy two-story brick house, banged…
Microsoft on disrupting cyberattacks targeting Ukraine; Facebook on countering Ghostwriter’s attempts
Tom Burt , the Corporate Vice President, Customer Security & Trust at Microsoft writes: Today, we’re sharing more about cyberattacks we’ve seen from a Russian nation-state actor targeting Ukraine and steps we’ve taken to disrupt it. We recently observed attacks targeting Ukrainian entities from Strontium, a Russian GRU-connected actor we have tracked for years. This…
Charity Pays Over $8 Million to Resolve Federal Embezzlement, Bribery Investigation
Preferred Family Healthcare, a Springfield, Missouri-based non-profit, will pay more than $8 million in forfeiture and restitution to the federal government and the state of Arkansas under the terms of a non-prosecution agreement announced yesterday, which acknowledges the criminal conduct of its former officers and employees. “Preferred Family Healthcare must relinquish the illegal profits it…
If You Came Here Looking for Information on a Class Action Settlement?
A number of people have been posting comments or actually calling me about class action lawsuit settlements. This site reports news about lawsuits and settlements. Sometimes this site may show up in a Google search for those looking for information about a breach or class action lawsuit, but this site only reports news. This site…
FCC Adds Kaspersky and Chinese Telecom Firms to National Security Threat List
Ravie Lakshmanan reports: The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Friday moved to add Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab to the “Covered List” of companies that pose an “unacceptable risk to the national security” of the country. The development marks the first time a Russian entity has been added to the list that’s been otherwise dominated by…