DOJ may present its antitrust case against Google later this month

Posted on 04/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

A report by the New York Times suggests that the Justice Department is close to presenting its antitrust case against Alphabet, the parent company of Google. The report also mentions that there’s disagreement among the team, as attorney general Willi...

Tesla worked with the FBI to block a million dollar ransomware attack

Posted on 27/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Earlier this week, the FBI arrested a 27-year-old Russian citizen for attempting to carry out a ransomware attack against a US company. It turns out that company was Tesla, Electrek reports.According to a complaint shared by the Department of Justice...

US officials seize cryptocurrency accounts tied to al-Qaeda and ISIS

Posted on 13/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

US authorities have dismantled financing campaigns for three terrorist organizations, which included “the government’s largest-ever seizure of cryptocurrency in the terrorism context,” according to the Department of Justice. The Internal Revenue Serv...

US charges two Chinese hackers with trying to steal COVID-19 research

Posted on 21/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Today, the US Justice Department charged two Chinese hackers with targeting US COVID-19 research. The charges were part of an 11-count indictment that alleges the two individuals conducted a global hacking campaign that went on for more than 10 years...

EARN IT Act amendments transfer the fight over Section 230 to the states

Posted on 02/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed an amended version of the EARN IT Act. The controversial legislation will now head to the full Senate floor for debate. While the amendments include substantial changes, groups like the ACLU and Free Press...

Six former eBay employees charged in a bizarre cyberstalking scheme

Posted on 15/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

A handful of high-ranking former eBay staff allegedly carried out a bizarre cyberstalking campaign that involved sending a preserved fetal pig, bloody pig Halloween mask, funeral wreath, book on surviving the loss of a spouse and pornography to a cou...

Facebook, Google and others adopt guidelines intended to fight child abuse

Posted on 05/03/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Today, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security -- along with government counterparts in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom -- published guidelines to help the tech industry fight online child exploitation. The princip...

Ohio man charged for laundering $300 million through Bitcoin ‘mixer’

Posted on 13/02/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

American law enforcement just illustrated how important cryptocurrency has become in the criminal world. Federal agents have charged Ohio resident Larry Harmon for allegedly running a darknet-based Bitcoin "mixer" that laundered the equivalent of ro...

DOJ is trying to stop US VoIP carriers from hosting foreign robocalls

Posted on 29/01/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

The Department of Justice has taken its first ever enforcement action against a handful of American companies involved in massive robocall schemes. In an announcement, the agency has revealed that it's seeking temporary restraining orders against fiv...

Google reportedly facing a DOJ probe over its $2.1 billion Fitbit purchase

Posted on 11/12/2019 by Engadget RSS Feed

Both the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) apparently aren't thrilled with Google's Fitbit acquisition. According to a New York Post report, both agencies are concerned that the purchase would give Google access to ev...

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