TD Bank has agreed to pay US$3 billion in fines and penalties for failing to maintain an anti-money laundering program and became the first bank in U.S. history to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering. The bank's failure to maintain its anti-money laundering program allowed corrupt employees to ...
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Social Media and Video Streaming Services have become a ubiquitous part of life and culture in the digital age. But these services do more than let their users connect with the world from the palm of their hands. A new report by the United States Federal Trade Commission has found ...
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Former member of the United States House of Representatives George Santos has pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft after a tumultuous year plagued by scandal. The charges stemmed from inflating fundraising numbers and faking donor names to secure financial support from the Republican Party. He admitted to ...
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In a recent opinion that may have broader reach in the world of connected cars the Ontario Court of Appeal unanimously held there is no expectation of information privacy in data contained in a motor vehicle event data recorder. Although the ruling does not resolve a conflict in Canadian constitutional ...
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Geofence warrants have been held to be unconstitutional in a recent opinion delivered by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit sparking praise for its critique of digital dragnets and concerns about the broader implications whether any digital warrants for online contents are constitutional. Google is the ...
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On July 22, 2024, Google announced the reversal of its plan to eliminate cookies in its Chrome browser. The decision appears to follow objections to Google's alternative technologies by digital advertising companies. Instead, Google intends to introduce a new feature in Chrome that will allow users to make informed decisions ...
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Cyber intelligence officials in the United States, Netherlands and Canada have identified a sophisticated Russian bot farm that used artificial intelligence to facilitate almost a thousand covert accounts on the social media platform X. The U.S. Department of Justice said investigators seized two internet domains in the United States and ...
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The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently considered a case involving the search of a hotel room and the seizure of a cellular telephone as an incident to the arrest of a suspected narcotics distributor. The search was unreasonable because the area searched was not within ...
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The Alberta Court of Appeal has ordered a new trial for Kirandeep Toor who was convicted of drug smuggling by a Lethbridge jury and was serving a nine year sentence along with her twenty-two month old daughter who was born during her incarceration. In a split 2-1 ruling the court ...
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A multinational cyber operation coordinated by Europol has dismantled a malware network that infected millions of computers worldwide. It is the latest international investigation targeting ransomware and other malware droppers that are usually delivered by emails containing infected links or attachments. The sting has impacted the global dropper ecosystem on ...
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