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Great Britain: Government Crack Down On Pension Scams

Pension scams are among one of the most damaging forms of financial fraud. Fraudsters trick savers into transferring their pension pots into bogus schemes, often leaving victims with no way to recover their losses. The new proposals would mean that where there is no clear link between a saver and the SSAS scheme they are transferring into, […]

United States: DHS Directs ICE To Deport Aliens Who Vote In American Elections

The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the following statement after DHS General Counsel James Percival directed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to enforce stricter penalties, including deportation, for aliens who illegally vote in American elections. In a letter to ICE leadership, DHS points out that the Immigration and Nationality Act directs the removal of aliens who […]

United States: Justice Department Opens Investigation Of Philadelphia Police Department’s Allegedly Unconstitutional Permit Revocation Practices

Today, the Justice Department opened an investigation to determine whether Philadelphia Police use a vague “good cause” standard to cancel permits to carry legal firearms. The U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment protects the civil right keep and bear legal firearms — including the right to legally carry firearms where allowed. The investigation focuses on the Philadelphia Police’s permitting system; […]

United States: U.S. Extradites To Ghana Former Ghanaian Official Convicted Of Stealing and Misappropriating More Than $6M

On June 8, the United States extradited Sedina Christine Tamakloe Attionu, also known as “Sedina Sharon Christine Acolatse,” a Ghanaian citizen, to serve a 10-year prison term in Ghana for convictions on more than 70 criminal counts that include charges of stealing, conspiracy, causing financial loss to the State and to public property, money laundering, and other offenses. […]

Locked in heated rivalry with researcher, Microsoft fixes 0-day they disclosed

Microsoft on Tuesday released fixes for two high-severity zero-days that were disclosed by a researcher who has been locked in a testy beef with the software giant.

Nightmare Eclipse, the pseudonym the researcher goes by, released a handful of high-severity vulnerabilities in recent months, making them zero-days that had the potential to be exploited in the wild. The researcher has said the disclosures, which included proof-of-concept code, came after Microsoft reneged on an arrangement the two made regarding vulnerabilities they had discussed.

Disclosure drama

“But someone violated our agreement and left me homeless with nothing,” Nightmare Eclipse wrote in March. “They knew this will happen and they still stabbed me in the back anyways, this is their decision not mine.”

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