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California shooter messaged Facebook friends about support for jihad: LA Times

December 15, 2015 creative angeles-times, bernardino, california, direct-contact, fbi, join-the-fight, messages-were, rizwan-farook, sent-at-least, shooters, support, tashfeen-malik, times, united, united-states

(Reuters) – One of the shooters in the San Bernardino massacre, Tashfeen Malik, sent at least two private messages on Facebook to a small group of Pakistani friends in 2012 and 2014, pledging her support for Islamic jihad and saying she hoped to join the fight one day, the Los Angeles Times reported on Monday. The messages were posted before Malik, 29, entered the United States on a K-1 fiancée visa in July 2014, the Times said, citing two top federal law enforcement officials. Malik's messages were recovered by FBI agents investigating whether she and her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, had been in direct contact with foreign militant organizations and were directed to carry out the Dec

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Thai activists urge release of man detained over Facebook post

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By Aukkarapon Niyomyat and Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai activists on Monday demanded the release of a man arrested for sharing an infographic on Facebook detailing alleged graft in an army-built park, saying plainclothes security officers took him by force. Since taking power in a military coup in May 2014, Thailand’s ruling junta has issued directives that have largely stifled dissent, including barring political discussions and debate. On Sunday, a 25-year-old student, Thanet Anantawong, was taken from a hospital while he awaited an operation, said prominent anti-junta activist, Siriwat Serithiwat.

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Social media companies step up battle against militant propaganda

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By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook, Google and Twitter are stepping up efforts to combat online propaganda and recruiting by Islamic militants, but the Internet companies are doing it quietly to avoid the perception that they are helping the authorities police the Web. On Friday, Facebook Inc said it took down a profile that the company believed belonged to San Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik, who with her husband is accused of killing 14 people in a mass shooting that the FBI is investigating as an “act of terrorism.” Just a day earlier, the French prime minister and European Commission officials met separately with Facebook, Google, Twitter Inc and other companies to demand faster action on what the commission called “online terrorism incitement and hate speech.” The Internet companies described their policies as straightforward: they ban certain types of content in accordance with their own terms of service, and require court orders to remove or block anything beyond that.

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FBI has lead in probe of 1.2 billion stolen Web credentials: documents

November 24, 2015 publisher bloomington, facebook, fbi, federal, florida, having-access, internet, investigation, largest, lifeless-body, linked-through, miami-florida, warrant-the-fbi, while-the-older

By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) – A hacker who once advertised having access to user account information for websites like Facebook and Twitter has been linked through a Russian email address to the theft of a record 1.2 billion Internet credentials, the FBI said in court documents. The papers, made public last week by a federal court in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, provide a window into the Federal Bureau of Investigation's probe of what would amount to the largest collection of stolen user names and passwords. The court papers were filed in support of a search warrant the FBI sought in December 2014 and that was executed a month later related to email records.

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Hired-gun hacking played key role in JPMorgan, Fidelity breaches

November 13, 2015 admin arsenal, austin-berglas, burgeoning, citing-fears, deadly-assault, fbi, financial, iran, said-additional, tehran, twitter

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – When U.S. prosecutors this week charged two Israelis and an American fugitive with raking in hundreds of millions of dollars in one of the largest and most complex cases of cyber fraud ever exposed, they also provided an unusual look into the burgeoning industry of criminal hackers for hire. The trio, who are accused of orchestrating massive computer breaches at JPMorgan Chase & Co and other financial firms, as well as a series of other major offences, did little if any hacking themselves, the federal indictments and a previous civil case brought by the U.S.

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Trump’s rant against Carson goes viral on social media

November 13, 2015 creative austin-berglas, campaign-event, carson, college, donald, fbi, incident, iran, quickly-became, said-additional, topic-on-social, twitter

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's rant against fellow contender Ben Carson on Thursday, in which he said Carson had a “pathological” temper as a young man, quickly became a lively topic on social media on Friday. Speaking in Iowa late Thursday, Trump cast doubt on Carson's often-reported story of lunging at someone with a hunting knife as a child, an episode Carson says led him to Christianity.

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Hackers stole secrets for up to $100 million insider-trading profit: U.S.

August 12, 2015 creative business, business-wire, corporate-press, diego-rodriguez, fbi, hacked-inside, illegal-profits, instance, jersey, made-as-much, noeleen-walder, said-on-tuesday, ukraine, use-information, york

By Noeleen Walder, Jonathan Stempel and Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) – A group of mainly U.S.-based stock traders and computer hackers in Ukraine made as much as $100 million in illegal profits over five years by conspiring to use information stolen from thousands of corporate press statements before their public release, U.S. authorities said on Tuesday

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Website linked to Tennessee shooting denies it sells guns

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“We'd like to make it clear that Armslist does not sell guns,” Jonathan Gibbon, owner of the website, said in the video. The statement appeared on the website a day after the FBI said it knew where the suspect, Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, obtained his guns but would withhold the information for now

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Chinese military denies role in reported U.S. hacking

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China's Defense Ministry on Friday denied that it had anything to do with a cyber attack on Register.com, a unit of Web.com, following a report in the Financial Times that the FBI was looking into the Chinese military's involvement. “The relevant criticism that China's military participated in Internet hacking is to play the same old tune, and is totally baseless,” the ministry said in a fax to Reuters in response to a question about the story. It is not clear what the Chinese military would be looking for or what it would gain from Register.com's data

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Authorities closing in on hackers who stole JPMorgan data: NYT

March 16, 2015 publisher attorney-preet, computer-crimes, fbi, hackers, investigation, law-enforcement, making-it-one, newspaper, sign-outside, suspects, the-newspaper, top-prosecutor, united, united-states

(Reuters) – Federal authorities investigating the data breach at JPMorgan Chase & Co are confident that a criminal case will be filed against the hackers in the coming months, the New York Times reported, citing people briefed on the investigation.

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