A former L3Harris executive pleads guilty in a US district court to selling eight zero-day exploits to a Russian broker in exchange for millions of dollars
* “at least eight sensitive and protected cyber-exploit components” illegally sold to “a Russian cyber-tools broker” (for ~$1.3m). Obviously at a huge discount, bc super illegal — But separately “[...
In a policy shift, the US Department of Justice plans to stop prosecuting good-faith security research that would have violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
to choose not to prosecute security research as a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. “The policy for the first time directs that good-faith security research should not be charged.” https:...
Google shares data for the first time on geofence warrants received from US authorities: 8.3K in 2019, 11K in 2020; federal law enforcement made up 4% of total
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch : Tweets: @goyal_abhei and @zackwhittaker Tweets: Abhishek Goyal / @goyal_abhei : Geofence warrants in US help to identify people of interest who were in the near vicinity...
Zoom agrees to enhance its security as part of a proposed settlement with FTC, after Zoom was accused of deceiving customers over end-to-end encryption and more
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Researcher awarded a $6,000 payout after he found Instagram retained photos and DMs on its servers more than a year after he deleted them; the bug is now fixed
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Six former employees of eBay charged with leading a cyberstalking campaign against a couple they believed was critical of eBay in an online ecommerce newsletter
6 eBay Executives And Employees Charged With Sending Threats, Bloody Pig Mask To Natick Couple https://boston.cbslocal.com/ ... @lilsarg : Can't lie. Nothing brings me joy like seeing cyberstalking pr...
Twitter and Reddit file an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit challenging a State Dept. requirement that visa applicants must disclose social media handles
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New York's AG says it's investigating Charter Communications' handling of COVID-19, requiring thousands to work in offices; source: 230+ workers tested positive
Why are we still in the office?” https://www.nytimes.com/... Borzou Daragahi / @borzou : Firm helmed by Trump pal forces employees to come to work despite coronavirus. Hundreds have gotten sick. At le...
ACLU files lawsuit against Homeland Security to uncover details about the agency's face recognition program currently installed in over a dozen US airports
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DOJ says it has indicted 80 individuals, many based in Nigeria, as part of a massive business email scam and money laundering scheme
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