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Meet the world's most wanted environmental criminals
2014-11-26 21:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: In keeping with recent efforts to ramp up action against environmental crime, INTERPOL has highlighted nine fugitives for breaking laws related to illegal logging, poaching and the wildlife trade, illegal fishing, and waste dumping, among other crimes. There is Nicolaas Antonius Cornelis Maria Duindam, who is wanted for smuggling wildlife from Brazil; Feisal Mohamed Ali, the alleged leader of an elephant poaching gang; and Sergey Darminov who is wanted for making hundreds of millions of dollars...
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US government uses fake cell towers, flown on airplanes, to harvest phone data and track down criminals
2014-11-14 17:34:07| Extremetech
Proving yet again that the US government can show a surprising soupçon of tenacity when it comes to invading privacy and occasionally catching a terrorist, a new report claims that the US Marshals Service -- since 2007 -- has been criss-crossing the country with small airplanes equipped with fake cell towers. These small aircraft (fixed-wing Cessnas) intercept communications between your mobile phone and the carrier's legitimate cell tower, allowing the US Marshals to find and triangulate the exact location of a target. Obviously, the primary target of the system is criminals -- but the report says a lot of "innocent Americans" are also being tagged by the program.
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Google scans your Gmail inbox for child porn to help catch criminals, but dont worry about loss of privacy (yet)
2014-08-05 14:02:54| Extremetech
Last week, a man in Texas was arrested by the police for sending child porn to a friend email. This isn't something we'd usually report on, except in this case the man was arrested due to a direct tip-off from Google, which caught the child porn moving across its Gmail servers and dutifully alerted the police. This raises a rather thorny question: How did Google scan the man's inbox for child porn? And more importantly, does this mean Google is scanning everyone's inbox for child porn and other illegal materials?
Criminals Licking Their Lips at the Arrival of Connected Cars
2014-08-01 22:04:55| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News
The FBI has warned the US administration that arrival of autonomous vehicles could change the face of crime fighting and pose of threat to citizens. High speed car chases and vehicles being deployed by terrorists as lethal weapons are just two of the crime fighting concerns for US spooks. And you can bet your bottom dollar that the intelligence community in Europe has similar concerns. READ MORE The Article Criminals Licking Their Lips at the Arrival of Connected Cars appeared first on Automotive Digest.
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Cyber criminals ride Google coattails in DDoS attacks
2014-07-28 14:09:51| InfoWorld: Top News
The easy access Google's Web crawlers have to sites is increasingly being exploited by cyber criminals in launching distributed denial-of-service attacks, a security vendor says. Fake Web crawlers accounted for 4 percent of the total number of legitimate ones, called Googlebots, analyzed by Incapsula.
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