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A 22-year-old British man has been arrested in Spain at the request of the United States after the Justice Department filed multiple charges alleging he was involved in the hacking of several high-profile figures' social media accounts last year, including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. The feds say Joseph O'Conner not only took part in the scheme that affected 130 Twitter users, he also took over victims' TikTok and Snapchat accounts, according to a press release announcing his arrest.TWITTER BITCOIN HACK: LIST OF AFFECTED ACCOUNTS INCLUDES ELON MUSK, BILL GATESO'Conner faces 10 federal charges, including two counts each of cyberstalking, intentionally accessing a computer without authorization and obtaining information from a protected computer, and making extortive communications. The incident that occurred on July 15, 2020 involved a spear-phishing attack wherein hackers were able to break into Twitter's internal systems and gain access to user accounts. In addition to business titans such as Bezos and Musk, scammers also hit politicians including former President Barack Obama and then-Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, along with company accounts for Apple, Coinbase and other firms linked to cryptocurrencies. The hackers sent out tweets from the compromised accounts, attempting to solicit the…

On June 17th, the best legal minds in the Bay Area gathered together for a night filled with tech law trivia—but there was a twist! With in-person events still on the horizon, EFF's 13th Annual Cyberlaw Trivia Night moved to a new browser-based virtual space, custom built in Gather. This 2D environment allowed guests to interact with other participants using video, audio, and text chat, based on proximity in the room.EFF's staff joined forces to craft the questions, pulling details from the rich canon of privacy, free speech, and intellectual property law to create four rounds of trivia for this year's seven competing teams.Our virtual Gathertown room!As the evening began, contestants explored the virtual space and caught-up with each-other, but the time for trivia would soon be at hand! After welcoming everyone to the event, our intrepid Quiz Master Kurt Opsahl introduced our judges Cindy Cohn, Sophia Cope, and Mukund Rathi. Attendees were then asked to meet at their team's private table, allowing them to freely discuss answers without other teams being able to overhear, and so the trivia began!Everyone got off to a great start for the General Round 1 questions, featuring answers that ranged from winged horses to…

A Scottsdale man with a Sedona connection was arrested June 16 by officers with the Surprise Police Department and indicted by a grand jury July 12 for numerous sex crimes against at least four girls, at least two of which were 13 years old. Scottsdale resident David Jon Schnirch, 52, is facing seven counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, one count sex conduct with a minor under age 15, four counts of luring a minor for sexual exploitation regarding four girls and two counts of furnishing harmful items to minors. Schnirch was errone­ously initially identified as a Sedona resident by Phoenix area news outlets. While he does not live in Sedona, he is an investor in the Hideaway House restau­rant in Sedona, but has little connection to the business, according to Hideaway House owner and operator Gregory Ziegler. “In June 2021, I was alerted that an investor in our beloved Sedona insti­tution Hideaway House restaurant had been arrested in Scottsdale, where he lived and worked full-time as an employee at a Scottsdale-based company,” Ziegler said July 14. “This news came as a complete shock to me and our team here at Hideaway House, who all live here in Sedona…

Jack Dorsey cited the "weird as hell" bitcoin community as the reason for his support of the digital currency. The Twitter CEO chatted with Elon Musk Wednesday about all things bitcoin-related. Dorsey said bitcoin's "always evolving" network reminds him of the internet's early days. Loading Something is loading. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said part of what drives his passion for bitcoin is its community, which he described as being "weird as hell."Dorsey chatted everything related to the digital asset in a virtual bitcoin conference with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood, and Square Crypto Lead Steve Lee on Wednesday.He cited the bitcoin network as his inspiration for supporting the currency."It's deeply principled, it's weird as hell, it's always evolving," Dorsey said, adding that its community reminds him of the early days of the internet when he was a kid. "It's the only reason that I have a career — because I learned so much from people like who are building bitcoin today," Dorsey said.Dorsey hopes bitcoin can create "world peace" in an environment driven by "too many monopolies of violence.""It's going to be long-term, but my hope is definitely peace," he said.Dorsey has become an influencer for…

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Photo: Lionel Bonaventure (Getty Images)A troll conspiracy to capture a generic Twitter handle has resulted in death, Nashville ABC affiliate WKRN has reported. According to the station, an underage extortionist going after the “@Tennessee” Twitter account placed a false 9-11 report (“swatting”) of a shooting at the home of 60-year-old handle owner Mark Herring. When confronted by a police force shouting to put his hands down, Herring suffered a heart attack and died.Herring’s family members told the station that, leading up to the tragedy on April 27th, 2020, pizza deliveries for Herring mysteriously arrived at their homes—a common troll to make the recipient pay for pizza they hadn’t ordered. On the morning of his death, they later learned, Herring had received a call demanding that he sell his handle and refused.In May 2020, a federal grand jury charged Tennessee resident Shane Sonderman, a minor at the time of Herring’s death, with a litany of threats and coordinated harassment campaigns against Herring and five other people over valuable handles. The maximum for all charges are fines of up to $1 million and 35 years in prison.According to the brief summary in the indictment, Sonderman and co-conspirators set out to loot “simple,…

Text size The IAC Building in New York City. Leungphotography/Dreamstime It’s time to take a fresh look at IAC. In 2020, the Barry Diller-founded internet holding company’s shares soared 125%, as investors ratcheted up their expectations for Vimeo, a provider of video- creation tools that was headed for a spinoff. IAC (ticker: IAC) distributed all of its Vimeo (VMEO) shares to holders in May, the latest in a long line of IAC spinoffs that includes Match Group (MTCH), Expedia Group (EXPE), LendingTree (TREE), Live Nation Entertainment (LYV), and Angi (ANGI), among others. With the Vimeo transaction completed, IAC is back in business-building and investment mode. BMO Capital Markets analyst Daniel Salmon wrote in a research note Wednesday that he thinks the stock offers an opportunity, raising his rating to Outperform from Market Perform, with a price target of $170, about 25% above the current level. Salmon gets to his target price with a sum-of-the-parts approach. IAC still has a majority stake in Angi, a marketplace for home-repair services, worth an estimated $7.2 billion. The company also has a substantial stake in the casino gaming company MGM, valued at roughly $2.3 billion. Salmon thinks IAC’s DotDash web content business, which includes…

Benzinga Insights , Benzinga Staff Writer   July 21, 2021 1:48pm   459   Comments On Wednesday, shares of Vimeo (NASDAQ:VMEO) saw unusual options activity. After the option alert, the stock price moved down to $43.59. Sentiment: BEARISH Option Type: TRADE Trade Type: CALL Expiration Date: 2021-08-20 Strike Price: $45.00 Volume: 6075 Open Interest: 68 Three Ways Options Activity Is ‘Unusual' One way options market activity can be considered unusual is when volume is exceptionally higher than its historical average. The volume of options activity refers to the number of contracts traded over a given time period. Open interest is the number of unsettled contracts that have been traded but not yet closed by either counterparty. In other words, open interest represents the quantity of contracts that individual parties have written but not yet found a counterparty for (i.e. a buyer finding a seller, or a seller finding a buyer). Another indicator of unusual options activity is the trading of a contract with an expiration date in the distant future. Additional time until a contract expires generally increases the potential for it to grow its time value and reach its strike price. It is important to consider time value because…

Taylor Swift won’t be filling a blank space on her trophy case with any Grammys for her re-recorded “Fearless” album. The singer decided not to submit “Fearless (Taylor’s Version),” which she released in April, for contention at the Grammy Awards or the Country Music Association Awards, Billboard reported. “After careful consideration, Taylor Swift will not be submitting Fearless (Taylor’s Version) in any category at this year’s upcoming Grammy and CMA Awards,” a representative for Republic Records told Billboard in a statement. “Fearless has already won four Grammys including album of the year, as well as the CMA Award for album of the year in 2009/2010 and remains the most awarded country album of all time.” Swift is re-recording her first six albums after talent executive Scooter Braun acquired the rights to much of the singer’s musical catalog in 2019. Taylor Swift at the 2021 Grammys. (Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times via Getty Imag) At the time, Swift shared a Tumblr post accusing Braun of “incessant, manipulative bullying” toward her for years and called the acquisition her “worst case scenario.” The “Fearless” re-record is the first that Swift has released. The original version of the album came out in 2008. “Fearless”…

In a latest development in the ongoing probe into the pornography racket involving Raj Kundra, it has been found that the businessman was actively involved in the production, sources close to the Mumbai Crime Branch told CNN-News18. Although Kundra had previously claimed that he sold off his business to his brother-in-law in UK, property cell officers found that Kundra had lied. Through investigation, it has come to light that Kundra was actively involved in day-to-day decisions in the operation of HS.Kundra had set up a strong legal team to stop piracy of the pornographic content being created for the HotShots (HS) app. The legal team was reportedly looking into copy rights issues in India and abroad.While initial inquiries pointed to the first WhatsApp group, called ‘HS Account’, of which Kundra was the admin, officers are now investigating two more such groups found from his seized phone. HS Account dealt solely with revenue and sales discussion.Currently, a second WhatsApp group named ‘HS Take Down’ is under scrutiny. Kundra has been found to be the admin of this group as well. Preliminary investigations revealed that ‘HS Take Down’ consists of members from Kundra’s legal team. The group’s purpose was to monitor erotic…