Cryptocurrency Investor Files Fraud Suit Against AT&T for $224 Million

U.S. entrepreneur and cryptocurrency investor Michael Terpin filed a $224 million lawsuit against telecommunications company AT&T, accusing it of fraud and gross negligence in connection with the theft of digital currency tokens from his personal account. In a 69-page complaint filed with the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, Terpin alleged that on January 7, 2018, the tokens were stolen from him through what he alleged was a “digital identity theft” of his cellphone account. In the complaint, he said AT&T was his service provider.

WordPress Refuses to Take Down Sandy Hook Conspiracy Websites

Sandy Hook conspiracy theorists have been able to remain on WordPress.com thanks, in part, to policies put in place to resist previous campaigns to get content removed from its service, particularly through the strategic use of copyright claims. “Posting conspiracy theories or untrue content is not banned from WordPress.com, and unfortunately this is one of those situations,” Automattic said in a statement.

Lawmakers Want Details from FCC Chair About Fake DDoS Attack

A handful of Democratic lawmakers have some questions for FCC Chairman Ajit Pai regarding claims of a DDoS attack that the Inspector General recently concluded were false. Specifically, they want to know when Pai became aware that disruption to the agency's net neutrality comment system may not have been due to a DDoS attack and why the agency didn't correct its public statements alleging a DDoS attack before now.

Hundreds of Instagram Users Report Losing Access to Their Accounts

Hundreds of Instagram users who have reported similar attacks since the beginning of the month, where users are logged out of their Instagram accounts. their user names and profile images changed, as well as their passwords, email addresses, and Facebook account linked to Instagram.  It's not clear how hackers are gaining access to these accounts, or if it's the result of a coordinated attack.

Russian Hackers Suspected of Targeting Swedish News Sites

At the same time that Russian military intelligence operatives allegedly penetrated Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in 2016, suspected Russian hackers were also targeting at least nine Swedish news sites in an apparent attempt to dissuade Sweden from cooperating with NATO, a partially released State Department cable reveals. The cable, which was obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by BuzzFeed News and Ryan Shapiro, a PhD candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the cofounder of the transparency project Property of the People, was intended for internal use only.

Hackers Could Access Networks Via Fax Machines, Report Says

The fax machine is widely considered to be a dinosaur of interoffice communications, but it may also present a vulnerable point where hackers can infiltrate an organization’s network, according to a new report from Israel-based software company Check Point. The company said that the vulnerability was identified as a result of research intended to discover potential security risks, and not as the result of any attack.

Court Blocks FCC Plan to Drop Subsidy for Low-Income Tribal Internet

A $25 monthly subsidy that’s meant to help low-income households on tribal lands get phone or Internet service will remain in place for the time being, after a court found that the Federal Communication Commission’s plan to largely remove the subsidies seems to have been made without properly considering the harms to customers and businesses. A federal court said that petitioners -- including tribes, nonprofits, and wireless carriers -- were likely to prove that the commission’s decision was “arbitrary and capricious,” meaning that it failed to fully consider the changes it was making.

30% of House Candidates Have Security Issues on Campaign Sites

About 30 percent of House candidates running for office this year have significant cybersecurity issues with their campaign websites, according to a new study. Four independent researchers at a security conference unveiled a report that indicates three out of every 10 House candidates are currently vulnerable to hacking and cyberattacks, according to Reuters.

11-Year-Old Boy Hacks Into Replica of Florida Election Website

An 11-year-old boy was able to hack into a replica of the Florida state election website and change voting results found there in under 10 minutes during the world’s largest yearly hacking convention, DEFCON 26, organizers of the event said. Thousands of adult hackers attend the convention annually, while this year a group of children attempted to hack 13 imitation websites linked to voting in presidential battleground states.

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Vimeo Removes InfoWars Platform for Posting Hateful Content

Vimeo has removed Alex Jones' InfoWars from its platform for violating the company's Terms of Service standards, a Vimeo spokesperson told Business Insider. The videos "violated our Terms of Service prohibitions on discriminatory and hateful content," the spokesperson said, adding that Vimeo had notified the account owner and issued a refund, as "we do not want to profit from content of this nature in any way."

Qualcomm Settles Antitrust Case in Taiwan for $93 Million

Mobile chipmaker Qualcomm Inc. will settle an antitrust case with Taiwanese regulators for about $93 million, and has also pledged to invest $700 million in Taiwan over the next five years. The settlement replaces a fine of roughly $778 million imposed by Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission in 2017, when it accused the U.S. firm of refusing to sell chips to mobile handset makers that wouldn’t agree to its patent-licensing terms.

Twitter Keeps InfoWars Online But Says Seven Tweets Violate Rules

Twitter said that the accounts belonging to far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his fringe media organization InfoWars would, for now, remain online, one day after a CNN investigation found that Jones' Twitter accounts appeared to have repeatedly violated the company's rules. A Twitter spokesperson said that the company concluded that of the more than a dozen tweets included in CNN's report, seven were found to have violated Twitter's rules.

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Democratic National Committee Serves Suit on WikiLeaks via Twitter

The Democratic National Committee officially served its lawsuit to WikiLeaks via Twitter, employing a rare method to serve its suit to the elusive group that has thus far been unresponsive. As CBS News first reported last month, the DNC filed a motion with a federal court in Manhattan requesting permission to serve its complaint to WikiLeaks on Twitter, a platform the DNC argued the website uses regularly. 

Facebook Removing Instructions on 3D Printing of Firearms

Facebook Inc. is removing content related to instructions on 3D printing of firearms, a company spokesperson said, as debate around access to gun in the United States intensifies. “Sharing instructions on how to print firearms using 3D printers is not allowed under our Community Standards. In line with our policies, we are removing this content from Facebook,” the social media giant said.

Comcast Xfinity Exposes Some Data on Customer Portal

Comcast Xfinity inadvertently exposed the partial home addresses and Social Security numbers of more than 26.5 million customers, according to security researcher Ryan Stevenson, who discovered the security flaws. Two previously unreported vulnerabilities in the high-speed internet service provider’s online customer portal made it easy for even an unsophisticated hacker to access this sensitive information.

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