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DoJ says SolarWinds hackers breached its Office 365 system and read email

Enlarge (credit: Gregory Varnum) The US Justice Department has become the latest federal agency to say its network was breached in a long and wide-ranging hack campaign that’s believed to have been backed by the Russian government. In a terse statement issued Wednesday, Justice Department spokesman Marc Raimondi said that the breach wasn’t discovered until […]

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FTC Split on how Best to sue Facebook for antitrust Offenses, and reports Discover

Expand / / All Facebook, whichever way you appear. (charge: Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images) After a year spent exploring Facebook, state and national regulators are {} to begin {} a record of instances contrary to Facebook, fresh reports state –which is, whenever the agencies may agree on the way they really wish […]

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Sacklers–That Left $11 billion Away opioid Meltdown –to pay $225 million in Settlement

Expand / PURDUE PHARMA, STAMFORD, Conn. – 2019/09/12: Members of P.A.I.N. (Prescription Addiction Intervention Today ) and Truth Pharm staged a demonstration on September 12, 2019, external Purdue Pharma headquarters in Stamford, within their current contentious opioid settlement. Erik McGregor) The notorious megarich Sackler household will pay $235 million in civil penalties as part of […]

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Justice Dept. files long-awaited antitrust Lawsuit against Google

Expand / Can the sun {} to the Google empire? (charge: 400tmax | Getty Images) The Department of Justice today filed a landmark antitrust lawsuit against Google, alleging the firm behaved anticompetitively and pushed out competitions in its own search companies. A business doesn’t need to be a monopoly, without the accessible contest of any […]

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John McAfee Detained, indicted on tax evasion charges, sued for fraud

Expand / John McAfee gesticulating in his yacht out Havana, Cuba, during an interview with AFP at June 2019. (charge: Adalberto Roque | AFP | Getty Images) Noted cybersecurity bizarre John McAfee is under arrest in Spain awaiting extradition to the United States after being indicted on federal tax evasion charges. The Department of Justice […]

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Justice Dep’t. sends its Department 230 rewrite to Congress

Expand (charge: Aurich Lawson / / Getty Images) The Department of Justice now dropped a projected”recalibration” of one of the most essential legislation governing the US Web into Congress’s lap and also encouraged legislators to act to get rid of a liability protection where virtually every site and app now relies. Attorney General Bill Barr […]

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States, DOJ Allegedly Assembly this week to Program Google antitrust suit

Expand / / Google’s in all. Maybe too much everything, regulators currently fear. (charge: Omar Marques | SOPA Pictures | LightRocket | Getty Images) Several investigations in to Google parent Alphabet’s contest practices might ultimately be reaching a mind, as federal and state regulators meet now to plan next steps to get a couple of […]