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- February 5, 2019
Three individuals were charged on Friday for allegedly hijacking a string of high-profile Twitter accounts after hoodwinking the social network’s staff. It is claimed a social-engineering-driven phishing campaign against Twitter employees led to hacking spreethe brief takeover on July 15 of 45 out of 130 targeted prominent accounts to promote a Bitcoin scam. Accounts belonging
READ MOREHuawei has accused the US government of trying to discredit the company. US prosecutors have filed criminal charges against Chinese professor Bo Mao in Texas for allegedly stealing technology from a California-based company to benefit Huawei. Professor Mao was arrested in Texas on 14 August, but was released a few days later on $100,000 bond
READ MOREFederal prosecutors in Los Angeles have charged a man from Hollywood Hills in connection with the death of hip-hop star Mac Miller, who was found dead from a drug overdose in his home just under a year ago. Cameron James Pettit, 28, allegedly supplied Miller with counterfeit oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl, according to a
READ MOREA man has admitted killing three Muslim college students in North Carolina – but will no longer face the death penalty. Craig Stephen Hicks’s three guilty pleas to first-degree murder came two months after the new district attorney dropped plans to seek the death penalty in hopes of concluding a case that she said had languished too long. “I’ve wanted
READ MOREJulian Assange: Swedish prosecutors ask to detain WikiLeaks founder over rape investigation | The Independent Swedish prosecutors have filed a request for the detention of Julian Assange over a rape allegation. The warrant, if granted, would be the first step in a process to have the Wikileaks founder extradited from the UK, where he is
READ MORE“This goes, I think, very much to the heart of what the Special Counsel’s Office is investigating,” Weissmann said, according to a redacted transcript of the hearing. He added: “That meeting and what happened at that meeting is of significance to the special counsel.” The meeting occurred while Manafort was still in a high-ranking role
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