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Police bust huge hacker black market – CNNMoney

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Police bust huge hacker black market
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… malware that sneaks into Google Android smartphones, steals data and controls the device. Eric L. Crocker, codenamed Phastman. He's 39 and resides in Binghamton, New York. Cops thinks he build a massive spam-spewing botnet by infecting Facebook …
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Police bust huge hacker black market – Jul. 15, 2015 – CNN Money – CNNMoney

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Police bust huge hacker black market – Jul. 15, 2015 – CNN Money
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Hackers who snuck into millions of computers — and turned them into a slave network under their control — would sell temporary access to their powerful computing power of their "botnets." These are … Related: Popular Android game stole Facebook logins.
Malware And Hacking Forum Darkode Is Shut Down; Dozens Arrested : The Two …NPR
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Leaked emails show Florida police interested in buying Hacking Team surveillance tech

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“Developing the U.S. market. Well done,” reads an email from Hacking Team CEO David Vincenzetti dated on May 22. That comment was in regards to the Hacking Team meeting with the Florida Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation (MBI) in Orlando after the police agency expressed an interest in purchasing surveillance malware. MBI is a “a multi-agency task force that covers Orange and Osceola counties” and includes members from DEA, FBI, ICE, Secret Service and other agencies.

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How the cloud helped police warm up to body-worn cameras

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The technology for body-worn cameras has been around for years, but it wasn’t until this past year that law enforcement agencies have moved to adopt them in significant numbers.

Of course, a big part of the reason was the fallout from several high-profile incidents involving law enforcement’s controversial use of deadly force, bookended by the ensuing riots in 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri, and in Baltimore just last month. These reactions made it clear how important body-worn cameras could be, to the point that the Ferguson police department implemented the devices just weeks after Michael Brown’s shooting.

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