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The world is adjusting to the “new normal” of working from home and attending online meetings. While this is happening, a nefarious group of people have decided to enter Zoom teleconferences so they can be abusive to the people who are attending it. The Department of Justice wants people to know that “Zoom-bombing” can result in fines or imprisonment. The
The California Supreme Court has ruled that Apple Inc. violated California law when it failed to pay employees in Apple Stores for the time they spend waiting for mandatory bag and iPhone searches at the end of their shifts. The case is called Frlekin v. Apple Inc. It was filed as a class-action lawsuit against Apple by a group of
The Department of Justice has arrested a man who allegedly was running a bitcoin mixing service on the dark web that helped criminals launder bitcoin transactions. ZDNet reported that this was the first case the Department of Justice brought against a bitcoin mixer. The Department of Justice stated that Larry Harmon, from Ohio, was arrested for his operation of Helix,
The U.S. Department of Justice announced that a superseding indictment was returned yesterday in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, charging Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Huawei) the world's largest telecommunications manufacturer, and two U.S. subsidiaries with conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). Brian A. Benzskowski, Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department's Criminal Division; John
The U.S. Department of Justice said that four members of the People's Liberation Army, an arm of the Chinese military, have been charged with breaking into the networks of the Equifax credit reporting agency, and stealing personal information of tens of millions of Americans, according to the Associated Press. This is specifically regarding the data breach that Equifax experienced on
The U.S. Department of Justice (and the United Kingdom's National Crime Agency) announced the unsealing of criminal charges against a 32-year-old hacker who goes by the name “aqua”, of Moscow, Russia. He has been charged with international computer hacking and bank fraud schemes that started in 2009 and spanned a decade. In addition, a second person from Yoshkar-Ola, Russia, was
The Associated Press reported that German investigators arrested seven people in connection with an illegal data processing center that was installed in a former NATO bunker. It was located in Traben-Trarbach, a town that is located near the Mosel River in western Germany. According to the Associated Press, the German investigators believe the facility served a number of dark web