BY SAAD GUL and MIKE SLIPSKY The U.S. Supreme Court has granted certiorari in its first Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) case, Van Buren v. United States. CFAA is the federal anti-hacking law that the criminal defense and civil ...
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Read More »In 2013, plaintiff lost his job as a security guard when an FBI criminal background check showed a 1969 murder conviction but failed to show that the conviction had been set aside in 1983. A 2015 printout from the SBI’s ...
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Read More »A federal judge has agreed to preserve the secret identities of two covert FBI sources who gathered evidence against a man who tried to join al-Qaida-linked fighters in Syria. U.S. District Judge Terrence Boyle on Dec. 13 said an FBI ...
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Read More »WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director James Comey said Tuesday he was glad a court fight in California over access to a locked iPhone had ended because it “was creating an emotion around the issue that was not productive,” likening the ...
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Read More »WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI’s announcement that it mysteriously hacked into an iPhone is a public setback for Apple Inc., as consumers learned that they can’t keep the government out of even an encrypted device that U.S. officials had claimed ...
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Read More »WASHINGTON (AP) — The extraordinary legal fight pitting the Obama administration against technology giant Apple Inc. ended unexpectedly after the FBI said it used a mysterious method without Apple’s help to hack into a California mass shooter’s iPhone. Left unanswered, ...
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Read More »LOS ANGELES (AP) — It will take at least two weeks to know whether an alternate method will unlock an encrypted iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers, the head of the FBI’s Los Angeles office said Tuesday, ...
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Read More »MIAMI (AP) — The FBI has arrested a South Florida man in the heist last year of $4.8 million in gold bars from a truck along Interstate 95 in North Carolina. Miami FBI spokesman Mike Leverock says 46-year-old Adalberto Perez ...
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Read More »Bauer v. Lynch, Attorney General (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-011-16, 28 pp.) (King, J.) No. 14-2323, Jan. 11, 2015; USDC at Alexandria, Va. (Ellis, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: The 4th Circuit vacates summary judgment for a male FBI Special Agent trainee ...
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Read More »GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Police and the FBI are looking for someone who sent a letter that included racially charged language and threats against people involved with a Jewish school in Greensboro. Greensboro police spokeswoman Susan Danielsen said Tuesday the B’nai Shalom ...
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