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Man Charged With Hacking US Government Websites – California, United States
The feds on Thursday busted a California man who allegedly hacked his way into and tampered with computers around the world including an anti-terror center at West Point and the city comptroller’s office. Billy Ribeiro Anderson who called himself “Anderson Albuquerque” and “AlfabetoVirtual” online was picked up at his home in Torrance and had an appearance scheduled later Thursday in federal court in Los Angeles. “Billy Anderson allegedly used specialized computer skills and knowledge to hack important US military and government websites, as well as over 11,000 other websites around the world,” Manhattan US Attorney Geoffrey Berman said in a statement. A criminal complaint said that: “Website defacements are acts of computer intrusion during which a hacker obtains unauthorized access to computers hosting Internet websites and then replaces the publicly available contents of the website with content generated by the hacker, thereby ‘defacing’ the website.”
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Sanctions On Iran-Linked Currency Exchange Network – Iran And The United States
The Trump administration sanctioned nine Iranian citizens and companies on Thursday for allegedly operating a currency exchange network that — with the help of Iran’s Central Bank — transferred millions of U.S. dollars to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps-Quds Force, the Treasury Department said. The central bank “actively supported” the arrangement, which involved currency transfers from Iran to the United Arab Emirates, according to a Treasury statement issued Thursday evening. The U.A.E. joined the U.S. to disrupt the currency exchange network. “Countries around the world must be vigilant against Iran’s efforts to exploit their financial institutions to exchange currency and fund the nefarious actors of the IRGC-QF and the world’s largest state sponsor of terror,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in the statement. The action comes two days after President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. was pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal and re-imposing sanctions that were in place before the 2015 agreement. Beginning Aug. 7, the U.S. will impose sanctions on the purchase or acquisition of U.S. dollar banknotes by Iran’s government, the Treasury Department said.
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Alphabet, Fedex, Uber To Participate In DOT Drone Program – United States
Chao’s green light for the 10 selectees to start drone pilot programs is the first step toward delivery drones in the supply chain. Over the last year, most of the supply chain buzz regarding drones revolved around the use of drones inside warehouses to automate and accelerate picking and packing duties. Yet according to the Gartner Hype Cycle, drones were already on their way down into the Trough of Disillusionment in 2017. But FedEx is betting on drones being the next big technology for package delivery, because the 3PL is partnering with the Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority to develop a pilot to do just that. FedEx isn’t the only one; the city of San Diego (using Uber’s drones), the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Investment Authority (using Alphabet’s drones) and the North Carolina DOT also listed package delivery as one of the aspects of their proposed drone pilots. Now that local governments can start testing drones for package delivery, 3PLs inch closer to winning regulatory approval to use drones. Notably, Amazon’s proposal wasn’t selected, Bloomberg reported, a major loss for the e-commerce giant who’s Amazon Prime Air pioneered the idea of delivering packages via drone.
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