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Feds shut down bogus COVID-19 vaccine site
A vaccine for $4.95!? Nah, we didn’t think so, either. Shuttering the alleged rip-off site is the DOJ’s 1st takedown of COVID-19 flimflam.
Google & Apple pushed to reveal gun scope app users’ names to feds
It’s a first: The government has never demanded personal data of a single app’s users from Apple & Google.
Facebook gets its wrist slapped $5b for fumbling our data, confirms FTC
The FTC initially wanted a fine worth tens of billions, plus potential jail time for execs.
FBI burrowing into North Korea’s big bad botnet
The FBI revealed that it joined the Joanap botnet and started chewing it up from the inside.
Iranian hackers charged in the US for SamSam ransomware attacks
Two Iranians have been named in a US ransomware indictment – but given that they aren’t in the US, what happens next?
NSA staffer takes top-secret hacking tools home ‘to study’, gets 66 months
Nghia Hoang Pho may not have had malicious intent, but removal of the materials forced the NSA to abandon years of signals collection work.
Proposed US law would require President to act against overseas hackers
A US senator has announced a bill that would force the President to punish overseas hackers found targeting the US, or explain why he hadn’t.
Top dark web drug vendors nabbed by ‘Operation Darkness Falls’
The DoJ announced arrests, charges and guilty pleas as part of Operation Darkness Falls, which involved several government agencies.
Feds indict 12 for allegedly buying iPhones on other people’s dimes
They allegedly hacked into phone accounts, convinced retailers they were who they weren’t, and upgraded to shiny new gadgets for small fees.