“Jerome Jacobson and his network of mobsters, psychics, strip club owners, and drug traffickers won almost every prize for 12 years, until the FBI launched Operation ‘Final Answer.’”
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-an-ex-cop-rigged-mcdonalds-monopoly-game-and-stole-millions
“[Mayor John Tory] did not mean that the cops who protect him do not need guns. He meant that ordinary citizens should be totally disarmed, hoping that thugs will also disarm, which would (inexplicably?) leave only the cops armed.”
Read more: https://www.econlib.org/why-does-anyone-in-this-city-need-a-gun/
“The fraudulent calls came suddenly and frequently while the scam was active from 2012 to 2016, according to court documents. A person posing as an Internal Revenue Service or immigration official was on the phone, threatening arrest, deportation or other penalties if the victims did not immediately pay their debts with prepaid cards or wire transfers.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/business/irs-phone-scams-jeff-sessions.html
“The situation recalls a similar incident in February when MEW was affected by a DNS attack that saw at least $365,000 of crypto stolen from users.”
Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/09/myetherwallet-hit-by-attack-hola/
“RDP administrators have been slow to adopt techniques like two-factor authentication and rate-limiting, which could prevent attacks like this one.”
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/11/17559510/airport-security-login-rdp-attack-dark-web
“The hacker told Recorded Future that he frequently ‘entertains’ himself by watching live streams of sensitive footage from airplanes and border surveillance cameras.”
“When it was released back in 2015, one of the main perks of Windows 10 was the improved security features that made it harder for rootkits to get a foothold on Microsoft’s new OS.”
“The FBI recommended that all owners of consumer-grade routers, switches, and network-attached storage devices reboot their devices. While the advice likely disrupted VPNFilter’s advance and bought infected users time, it may also have created the mistaken belief that rebooting alone was enough to fully remove VPNFilter from infected devices.”
“The attacks work because of weaknesses built into the LTE standard itself. The most crucial weakness is a form of encryption that doesn’t protect the integrity of the data.”
“Swann is owned by the Infinova Group, a US-based security camera specialist with offices across the globe.”
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44628399
