It coincided with a disinformation campaign carried out via SMS, email and social media claiming that national quarantine was imminent.
Tag Archives: Law & order
Human traffickers use social media oversharing to gain victims’ trust
Posts about money or family trouble are being used to gain trust by those who force victims into sex work or slavery, the FBI warns.
Europol busts up two SIM-swapping hacking rings
What a nightmare: your phone goes dead, and you can’t log into your bank account because it’s controlled by a hacker who’s draining you dry.
Report calls for web pre-screening to end UK’s child abuse ‘explosion’
The IICSA report cited “unprecedented levels of depravity” and said that encryption is getting in the way of current screening.
Senate bill would ban TikTok from government phones
Concerns over cybersecurity risk and possible spying by China have already brought about bans from DHS, DoD, TSA, and the State Department.
EARN IT Act threatens end-to-end encryption
The bill, which would undercut Section 230 protections for online publishing, presents itself as a way to stop online child abuse.
Homeland Security sued over secretive use of face recognition
As of June 2019, CBP had processed more than 20 million travelers using facial recognition, civil rights group ACLU says.
Necurs zombie botnet disrupted by Microsoft
Necurs, one of the world’s biggest botnets, infected over 9 million computers worldwide.
FBI arrests alleged owner of Deer.io, top market for stolen accounts
Started around 2013, the site claims to host over 24,000 active shops doing brisk business in stolen PII and hacking services.
Google data puts innocent man at the scene of a crime
The man became a suspect because location data from his Android phone was swept up in a surveillance dragnet called a geofence warrant.