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Organized crime law used in cybercrime conviction for first time

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Dec

2013

A new tool for prosecuting cybercrime appears to have emerged from a Las Vegas courtroom. Using a law classically invoked for targeting mafia and gang members, a federal court convicted a member of a web forum being used to facilitate identity theft. According to Wired, this is the first time that this law — the Racketeering […]

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Lawmaker Reveals Scale of US Mobile Data Requests

10

Dec

2013

WASHINGTON – US mobile carriers provided some one million records to law enforcement in 2012 related to warrants, wiretaps, location data and “cell-tower dumps,” documents released by a US senator showed.

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Microsoft and Law Enforcement Agencies Take a Crack at ZeroAccess Botnet

06

Dec

2013

Law enforcement agencies from Europe and the United States, under the lead of Microsoft, have disrupted the ZeroAccess (Sirefef) botnet, a threat that has infected over 2 million devices from all over the world in an effort to hijack search results and lead victims to websites that install malware and steal sensitiv…

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