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JULY 28, 2019

Federal law enforcement is helping in the investigation. The district staff reported this electronic viral attack to local law enforcement, state officials and the FBI. An investigation involving local, state and federal law enforcement is ongoing at this time.”. As a result, Gov.

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JUNE 4, 2019

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) and members of congress say the FBI’s use of facial recognition technology isn’t private or accurate enough, according to a report by VentureBeat. The FBI began using the software in 2011, and it first became fully operational in September of 2015.

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JANUARY 18, 2019

Some Amazon shareholders have sent a letter to the company, according to CNBC , demanding that it stop selling its facial recognition software to government agencies. “Sales of Rekognition to government[s] represent considerable risk for the company and investors. That’s why it’s imperative those sales be halted immediately.”.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2017

A virus that infected the computer system of the Licking County government offices in Ohio has shut down the entire network, including that of the local police force, and a financial demand was made to restore everything back to normal, according to TechCrunch. It’s a crime against the people of Licking County and its government.”.

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APRIL 22, 2020

Others pretend to be government agencies or public health organizations designed to trick viewers into entering banking and credit card information. In another example, the FBI said they identified lookalike Internal Revenue Service (IRS) stimulus payment domains. The sites were used as phishing schemes, authorities said.

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MAY 14, 2019

The company grew even more suspicious after the Chinese government asked eight companies to help it build a national credit reporting system. While the FBI wanted to pursue a criminal case, Equifax pulled back due to worries about legal exposure and how difficult the investigation could become.

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Clearly Payments

MARCH 4, 2024

Eventually, law enforcement agencies intervened, leading to the arrest and prosecution of numerous individuals involved in the scheme, highlighting the complexity and magnitude of modern phishing fraud and emphasizing the critical need for robust cybersecurity measures and user awareness to combat such criminal activities. billion ($2.1

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2016

A new study has landed the FBI in hot water when it comes to privacy concerns. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) study, released last Wednesday (June 15), sheds light on a database of more than 411 million photos maintained by the FBI. So, basically, what they’re saying is that it’s highly inaccurate!

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MARCH 7, 2016

Apple, the beloved creator of such devices as the iPod, the iPad and, of course, the game-changing iPhone, has come under scrutiny lately from, of all places, law enforcement agencies. They did not list a specific instance. ” Last month, the U.S. ” Last month, the U.S.

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MARCH 22, 2016

But this time, the case is a bit more serious as it has to do with hackers using bitcoin ransomware to lock out local government employees from their own computers. Having those government computers hacked in return for roughly $730 in bitcoin. Having those government computers hacked in return for roughly $730 in bitcoin.

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MAY 25, 2016

Apple’s encryption battle against the FBI may have simmered down, but Apple is not backing down on further bolstering the security of its devices. Callas’ appointment comes just weeks after the FBI spent $1.34 and Silent Circle, Reuters reported.

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FICO

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

According to the FBI , a money mule is someone who transfers or moves illegally acquired money on behalf of, or at the direction of another. What Exactly Is Money Muling? Kicking Back Against Mules. They can also use link analysis solutions to group and compare suspected mules with each other, and with entities suspected of money laundering.

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JUNE 10, 2019

companies and government agencies. The FBI reported that BEC scam losses roughly doubled in 2018, as measured year over year, to $1.2 The group has evolved from a “one-man shop” that originally scammed victims on Craigslist , and now has dozens of fraudsters targeting smaller firms through BEC — with an emphasis on U.S. million.

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APRIL 7, 2016

The company’s elite subscribers, which its CEO told CNN Money only includes major corporations and government organizations from western countries, are willing to shell out as much as $500,000 or more a year just to have access to the tactics for hacking Android phones and spying on their unsuspecting owners.

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OCTOBER 27, 2017

states, although law enforcement officials believe the threats are empty. government to issue a public warning about the potential threat. The hackers were able to compromise some of the targets, but the government wouldn’t provide information about any specific incidents. The FBI declined to comment.

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JUNE 20, 2016

and elsewhere, the FBI found, leading to requests for $3.1 The data led industry experts to warn companies that they should report cybercrime as soon as possible to law enforcement, though some officials agree that the mechanisms to report such crimes are far from straightforward and streamlined. billion in losses hit U.K.

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FICO

JANUARY 10, 2023

As Debbie Cobb explained, card skimming is big business; the FBI estimates that “skimming costs financial institutions and consumers more than $1 billion each year.” It will also enable customers to be more proactive in stopping transactions the moment they realise their card has been lost or stolen. Read the full post.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

That fact, documented via testimony at Guzmán’s trial, points to changes in how international suppliers of illegal drugs move their earnings and make them clean in order to protect those gains from law enforcement. That activity accounts for “probably the most significant single source of illicit cash,” the FBI noted.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Sources told Reuters that the international police organization made the decision at its conference in Lyon, France last week to release a version of the resolution introduced by the FBI in the hopes of getting companies to give law enforcement access to user communications when needed. government to protect us.”.

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MAY 15, 2017

The process around more rigorous drug testing, clinical trial parameters and the marketing of drugs were all tightened as a result of Kelsey’s insistence that the government fully examine all potential risks before setting a drug loose in the U.S. What Does Any of This Have To Do With Bitcoin? It’s a game with a pretty big payoff.

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AUGUST 8, 2019

The FBI has been collecting proposals from vendors to pull data from social media companies “to proactively identify and reactively monitor threats to the United States and its interests.” . There’s an Aug. 27 deadline for the bids.

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DECEMBER 5, 2018

The end goal is to use biometrics to allow the agency to track “subjects of interest” in public spaces who are approaching the White House “prior to direct engagement with law enforcement.”. But as the ACLU points out, there is no clear guidance as to how the Secret Service will decide if a person is a “subject of interest.”

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APRIL 7, 2016

The Apple-FBI encryption saga appears to be tempered — for now — but the debate about what role the federal government has on the subject is just getting started. What this means is that those battles between the DOJ, other law enforcement officials and the tech companies like Apple will likely continue.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2016

There does seem to be a clear difference in the motives of the attacks — the DNC hacks seem aimed, according to the FBI, at steering the outcome of the election, while the recent RNC hack seems to be more financially motivated. Governments Say ‘No More’ To Ransomware. Hacktivists Take On Colin Powell.

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