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As a result, the FBI said it expects cybercriminals to target banking customers with fake banking apps and app-based banking trojans. Phony bank apps spoof the actual apps of major banks to trick users into entering their account credentials.
Kenenty Hwan Kim, aka Myung Kim, 64, pleaded guilty [PDF] in a Texas court this week to one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. Using an email address very similar to Chance's, Kim asked Solid Bridge to send a $210,000 check for an invoice to an address in Washington state.
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US lawmakers will get another vote on whether the FBI must get a warrant before agents can search Americans' search and web-browsing histories. One cause for concern is the lack of requirement, in section 215 of the legislation, for the Feds to get a search warrant before requesting access to people's internet activities from their ISPs.
US lawmakers will get another vote on whether the FBI must get a warrant before agents can search Americans' search and web-browsing histories. One cause for concern is the lack of requirement, in section 215 of the legislation, for the Feds to get a search warrant before requesting access to people's internet activities from their ISPs.
The FBI said on Monday that it figured out how to unlock the iPhones of the shooter who killed three young US Navy students and injured eight at a Pensacola, Florida naval base in December 2019. Thanks to the great work of the FBI - and no thanks to Apple - we were able to unlock Alshamrani's phones.
Congress has been urged to introduce a measure that would require the FBI to get a warrant before agents can review Americans' internet browsing and search histories - just days after an amendment to do that fell by one vote in the Senate. Some new powers were also granted to law enforcement, including the ability to demand the browsing and search histories of citizens without needing to prove their case to a judge, which has serious privacy implications.
Congress has been urged to introduce a measure that would require the FBI to get a warrant before agents can review Americans' internet browsing and search histories - just days after an amendment to do that fell by one vote in the Senate. Some new powers were also granted to law enforcement, including the ability to demand the browsing and search histories of citizens without needing to prove their case to a judge, which has serious privacy implications.
That's just one of the vulnerabilities that the agencies are seeing being exploited this year by what they say are sophisticated foreign cyber actors. All that for 2020, and we still haven't even gotten to the meat of the report: the 10 most exploited vulnerabilities for the years 2016 through 2019.
The bi-partisan push to install the privacy protection mechanism was led by Senators Ron Wyden and Steve Daines, and came following the news a planned addition to the USA PATRIOT Act, which is due to be renewed this week, would allow law enforcement to collect people's browsing histories without a warrant. "Is it right at this unique time when millions of law-abiding citizens are at home, for the government to be able to spy on their internet searches and web browsing without a warrant?" Wyden asked the Senate ahead of the vote today.