If somebody promises to get your economic impact payment fast, back away: it’s just one flavor of COVID-19 scam the tax agency is seeing.
Tag Archives: Law & order
Phone carriers must authenticate calls to fight robocalls, says FCC
The FCC has given voice carriers until June 2021 to implement technology it says will stop the robocall plague that’s driving us all insane.
FBI takes down hacker platform Deer.io
It was a top crooks’ market, with over 24,000 shops doing brisk business selling credentials for Netflix, Facebook, Twitter, and more.
Battling the global COVID-19 scammers and fake news hawkers
Europol seized 34K fake surgical masks, while the office of NY’s AG wants registrars to explain how they’re battling the sale of lies.
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.
Tour guide/Chinese spy gets four years for SD card dead drops
The dead drops were very James Bond: once, the data mule taped the SD card to the underside of a desk in a hotel.
Trolls ZoomBomb work-from-home videocall with filth
Trolls have been joining videoconferencing calls to expose meeting participants to disturbing videos.
Location-tracking wristbands required on all incoming travelers to Hong Kong
The government says the wristband isn’t privacy-invading because it won’t track your location, per se; just if you wander from COVID-19 quarantine.
NIST shared dataset of tattoos that’s been used to identify prisoners
The EFF got in touch with the institutions that have the dataset. Some deleted it, while one refused and others didn’t bother to respond.
Uber to file federal suit against Los Angeles over users’ real-time location data
Real-time, in-trip geolocation data isn’t good for traffic/bike lane planning, a draft of the suit says. What it’s good for is surveillance.