Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Amazon Files Suits Against Five Sites Over Fake Reviews


For budding novelists looking to stand out, the website PaidBookReviews.org offers a package of 100 book reviews on Amazon for the low price of $2,200. The website was one of five sites Amazon sued in Washington state court, part of the online retailer’s year-long campaign to snuff out networks of fake reviews on its site.
Read the article: CNET

FBI Won’t Share iPhone Hacking Info with Apple
The Federal Bureau of Investigation plans to tell the White House it knows so little about the hacking tool that was used to open a terrorist’s iPhone that it doesn’t make sense to launch an internal government review about whether to share the hacking method with Apple Inc. The decision, and the technical and bureaucratic justification behind it, would likely keep Apple in the dark about whatever security gap exists on certain models of the company’s phones, according to people familiar with the discussions.
Read the article: The Wall Street Journal

SWIFT Warns Banks About Multiple ‘Cyber Incidents’
SWIFT, the global financial network that banks use to transfer billions of dollars every day, warned its customers that it was aware of “a number of recent cyber incidents” where attackers had sent fraudulent messages over its system. The disclosure came as law enforcement authorities in Bangladesh and elsewhere investigated the February cyber theft of $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank account at the New York Federal Reserve Ban

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