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AML Enforcement A New Era of Compliance

“Last year was the year of Bank Secrecy, sanctions and anti-Money Laundering enforcement. The HSBC settlement sparked significant controversy over the claim by the Justice Department that HSBC and other banks are too big to jail. Below the high-profile cases, there is another phenomena occurring a resurgence in regulatory enforcement against banks and other financial institutions….”

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The Law Should Never Be Secret, So Why Will CISPA Debate Be Secret?

“As we mentioned last week, CISPA is scheduled for markup tomorrow, and the markup will be done behind closed doors without any public scrutiny allowed. This makes no sense. They are not debating the reason for the law, but rather the text of the law itself….”

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Three LulzSec hackers pleads guilty To NHS, Sony Attacks inShare

“Three members of the high profile internet hacktivist group LulzSec have admitted to their parts in a series of cyber attacks against the NHS, Sony and News International.

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Phishing gang found guilty of spending woman's life savings

“Eight members of a London-based phishing gang that went on a 'cheeseburgers and gold' spending binge after robbing a British expat of her APS1 million ($1.

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Dual cyber-attacks hit Bitcoin virtual currency systems

“The soaring virtual currency Bitcoin suffered a cyber-blow after its leading exchange, Tokyobased Mt. Gox, was hit with a DDoS attack. The government-free tender also faced a hacker attack on its Instawallet database, forcing the site to be shut down

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Carberp botnet developers team arrested in Russia

“Cybercriminals, underground hacking communities, hacker's market and Exploit packs…. Russian cyberspace is well known for such crazy hacking stuff

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Fusion center director: We dont spy on Americans, just anti-government Americans

“Law enforcement intelligence-processing fusion centers have long come under attack for spying on Americans. The Arkansas director wanted to clarify the truth: centers only spies on some Americans those who appear to be a threat to the government. In trying to clear up the misconceptions about the conduct of fusion centers, Arkansas State Fusion Center Director Richard Davis simply confirmed Americans fears: the center does in fact spy on Americans but only on those who are suspected to be anti-government….”

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Donald Trump is Suing a Brooklyn man for Cyber squatting

“J. Taikwok Yung is 33, lives with his mom in Brooklyn, and bought domain names that criticize billionaire Donald Trump and cybersquatting him

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Hacker uses Evernote account as Command-and-Control Server

“Cyber criminals are using popular note-taking app Evernote as Command-and-Control Server to give commands to the malware installed on infected PCs using botnets. TrendMicro uncovered a malware detected as BKDR_VERNOT. A tried to communicate with Command-and-Control Server using Evernote….”

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Saudi govt warns of suitable measures against WhatsApp, Skype, Viber

“Saudi Arabia says it will take suitable measures if providers of internet messaging applications such as WhatsApp fail to comply with its rules. The move comes a week after the government warned providers to comply with censorship requirements.

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