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A Serial Tech Investment Scammer Takes Up Coding?

Krebs on Security

John Clifton Davies , a 60-year-old con man from the United Kingdom who fled the country in 2015 before being sentenced to 12 years in prison for fraud, has enjoyed a successful life abroad swindling technology startups by pretending to be a billionaire investor. that was part of John Davies’ 2015 fraud conviction.

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Axis Insurance Company v. American Specialty Insurance & Risk Services, Inc. (N.D. Ind. 2021)

eDiscovery Law

Key Insight: Plaintiff’s Motion to Compel sought missing documents and communications from, and the correction of metadata “issues” from Defendant and its parent company (via third party subpoena), and sought an award of attorney’s fees and costs.

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Ask Fitis, the Bear: Real Crooks Sign Their Malware

Krebs on Security

This post is a deep dive on “ Megatraffer ,” a veteran Russian hacker who has practically cornered the underground market for malware focused code-signing certificates since 2015. One of Megatraffer’s ads on an English-language cybercrime forum. Fitis’s Himba affiliate program, circa February 2014. Image: Archive.org.

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RaidForums Gets Raided, Alleged Admin Arrested

Krebs on Security

Department of Justice (DOJ) said today it seized the website and user database for RaidForums , an extremely popular English-language cybercrime forum that sold access to more than 10 billion consumer records stolen in some of the world’s largest data breaches since 2015.

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Cybersecurity Standards for the Insurance Sector – A New Patchwork Quilt in the US?

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

In the past two years, multiple state bills that have been introduced in the US to provide for cybersecurity requirements and standards to the insurance sector, with recent legislative activity taking place in particular within the States of Ohio, South Carolina, and Michigan. NYDFS: Setting a new bar for state cybersecurity regulation.

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Data from Airlink International UAE leaked on multiple dark web forums

Security Affairs

Leaked data includes 14 folders and 53,555 files divided into the following categories: Passport scans Flight bookings Hotel bookings Email communications between Airlink International Group employees and customers Insurance policy for international travel. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Do’s and Don’ts of Text Message Discovery

eDiscovery Daily

Emails were the primary concern since they held the bulk (if not all) of business communications. As text messages became the preferred method for informal communications, their usage in the business world also grew. [1] 1] In 2015, research showed that 80% of professionals conducted business communications through texts.