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Man jailed for $122 million scam that fooled Google and Facebook
Lithuanian Evaldas Rimasauskas has been sentenced to five years in jail for successfully defrauding two US companies out of $122 million.
Twitter trolls attack epileptics with seizure-inducing images
They hijacked the Epilepsy Foundation’s hashtags and name during national epilepsy awareness month, when the most people follow the feed.
Alleged bank vault robber posed with cash on Instagram, Facebook
He allegedly stole over $88,000 from Wells Fargo’s vault, then posed with cash and “his” Mercedes-Benz in posts and an Instagram rap.
Ransomware-seized New Orleans declares state of emergency
There are signs that the attackers used the particularly pernicious Ryuk strain of ransomware.
Facebook employees’ payroll data nabbed in car smash-and-grab
Bye-bye, payroll data for 29,000 US Facebook employees that got left on an unencrypted drive in an employee’s car.
Police get “unprecedented” data haul from Google with geofence warrants
Investigators are using geofence warrants to get anybody and everybody who’s near a crime at a given time.
Emotion-detection in AI should be regulated, AI Now says
It’s built on junk science, yet it’s being used to determine who gets hired, fired, insured, medicated and more, the research institute says.
Facebook refuses to break end-to-end encryption
Congress on Tuesday told Facebook it must put backdoors into its end-to-end encryption, or it’ll be forced to.
DoItForState domain name thief gets 14 years for pistol-whipping plot
He hired his cousin to break in, hold the rightful domain holder at gunpoint, and force a transfer to his own GoDaddy account.