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Lawmakers Should Update The Anti-Money-Laundering Act Of 2020 To Account For Inflation

Joseph Steinberg

While technological improvements over the past 51 years have obviously improved law enforcement’s capabilities vis-à-vis identifying problematic transactions, overreporting as a result of unnecessarily low thresholds can sometimes also hamper money-laundering detection by “creating much larger haystacks in which needles must be found.”

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Russian Cybersecurity Executive Arrested for Alleged Role in 2012 Megahacks

Krebs on Security

Prosecutors in Northern California indicted Kislitsin in 2014 for his alleged role in stealing account data from Formspring. Kislitsin also was indicted in Nevada in 2013, but the Nevada indictment does not name his alleged victim(s) in that case. “The company is monitoring developments.”

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The Not-so-True People-Search Network from China

Krebs on Security

A January 2024 review of various people-search services at the website techjury.com states that Cocofinder is a wholly-owned subsidiary of a Chinese company called Shenzhen Duiyun Technology Co. Is Shenzhen Duiyun Technology Co. Google currently turns up nothing else for in a search for Shenzhen Duiyun Technology Co.

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Sharing Netflix, Disney+, other passwords is illegal, according to new guidance

Malwarebytes

Under Section 11 of the Fraud Act of 2006 in the UK, someone using "services of a members' club without paying and without being a member" is considered fraud. According to survey findings from Beyond Identity, a passwordless identity platform, streaming services, on average, lose $642 per account moocher each year.

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Five Cybersecurity Trends that Will Affect Organizations in 2023

CyberSecurity Insiders

This analysis from Dirk Schrader, Vice President of Security Research, and Michael Paye, Vice President of Research and Development, is based on Netwrix’s global experience across a wide range of verticals, including technology, finance, manufacturing, government and healthcare. Understaffing will increase the role of channel partners.

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The Origins and History of the Dark Web

Identity IQ

You probably use the deep web all the time — examples may include bank accounts, your email, and login-restricted content such as news or streaming entertainment. In 2006, several of the same scientists who developed Tor founded the Tor Project, a Massachusetts-based non-profit organization. Navy patented onion routing in 1998.

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Chinese Antivirus Firm Was Part of APT41 ‘Supply Chain’ Attack

Krebs on Security

” Once inside of a target organization, the hackers stole source code, software code signing certificates, customer account data and other information they could use or resell. APT41’s activities span from the mid-2000s to the present day. Security analysts and U.S.

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