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US Justice Department Drops Request For Names Of People Who ‘Liked’ Anti-Trump Facebook Page
In a court hearing today, the US Department of Justice dropped its request for the names of an estimated 6000 people who “liked” a Facebook page about an Inauguration Day protest, the American Civil Liberties Union said. The ACLU challenged several warrants related to protests against President Trump’s inauguration on Friday, one of which included…
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Facebook, Twitter Deleted Data Tied To Russian Accounts That Targeted 2016 US Election Voters
Data that may have proved critical to investigations into Russia-funded political ads appears to have been tossed by Facebook and Twitter into the proverbial shredder.
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SEC Charges Shady ICO Operator With Fraud
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday charged businessman Maksim Zaslavskiy with fraudulently running two initial coin offerings (ICOs), a form of largely unregulated investment vehicle in which companies take investors’ cash or cryptocurrency in exchange for “crypto-tokens”.
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Adobe’s Product Security Team Accidentally Posted Its Private PGP Encryption Key To Its Blog
The past few weeks have been a nightmare for data breaches, so good news: Here’s another easily preventable security problem. Adobe’s Product Security Incident Response Team accidentally posted the private PGP encryption key — necessary to decrypt encoded messages transmitted to them using their public PGP key — associated with their psirt@adobe.com email account this…