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Mobsters now overlap with cybercrime gangs and use AI for evil, Europol warns
Infosec In Brief Organized crime networks are now reliant on digital tech for most of their activities according to Europol, the European agency that fights international crime on the continent and beyond.…
China bans compulsory facial recognition and its use in private spaces like hotel rooms
Asia In Brief China’s Cyberspace Administration and Ministry of Public Security have outlawed the use of facial recognition without consent.…
Oracle Cloud says it's not true someone broke into its login servers and stole data
Oracle has straight up denied claims by a miscreant that its public cloud offering has been compromised and information stolen.…
Ex-NSA boss: Good news. Election security focus helped dissuade increase in Russian meddling with US
Interview Russia appears to be having second thoughts on how aggressively, or at least how visibly, it attempts to influence American elections, according to a former head of the NSA.…
AdTech CEO whose products detected fraud jailed for financial fraud
The former CEO of Kubient, an advertising tech company that developed a cloudy product capable of detecting fraudulent ads, has been jailed for fraud.…
Paragon spyware deployed against journalists and activists, Citizen Lab claims
Infosec newsbytes Israeli spyware maker Paragon Solutions pitches its tools as helping governments and law enforcement agencies to catch criminals and terrorists, but a fresh Citizen Lab report claims its software has been used to target journalists, activists, and other civilians.…
Capital One cracker could be sent back to prison after judges rule she got off too lightly
Paige Thompson, the perpetrator of the Capital One data theft, may be sent back behind bars – after an appeals court ruled her sentence of time served plus five years of probation was too lenient.…
Dept of Defense engineer took home top-secret docs, booked a fishing trip to Mexico – then the FBI showed up
A US Department of Defense electrical engineer has turned his world upside down after printing 155 pages from 20 documents, all of which were marked top secret and classified, from his DoD workspace, brought them home with him – and was collared on his way to Mexico.…