#Legal
All CosmicBytez Labs articles tagged #Legal, across news, security advisories, how-to guides, and projects.
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Former OpenAI Engineer Pleads Not Guilty to Planting Covert Recording Device
Abdulrahman Alfozan denies a federal charge of intercepting oral communications over an alleged recorder in an OpenAI executive meeting room.
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New Mexico Court Orders Meta to Pay $25 Billion Over Cambridge Analytica Privacy Violations
A New Mexico judge cut a $220 billion award to $25 billion plus 15% annual interest over Facebook's Cambridge Analytica data sharing. Meta will appeal.
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Insider Cyber Extortion Plot Against Industrial Firm Lands Engineer in Prison
Former infrastructure engineer Daniel Rhyne, 59, gets 32 months for deleting admin accounts and demanding 20 bitcoin (~$750,000) from his ex-employer.
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Judge dismisses spyware case brought by Salvadoran journalists targeted with Pegasus
A federal judge dismissed El Faro journalists' Pegasus spyware suit against NSO Group for lack of California jurisdiction; Knight Institute plans to appeal.
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New Mexico Jury Finds Meta Deceived Consumers About Data Privacy Practices
A New Mexico jury found Facebook violated consumer law 43.9 million times over privacy claims, exposing Meta to up to $219 billion in penalties.
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Data Analyst Sent to Prison for Stealing Data, Extorting Employer
A former contractor at Brightly Software was sentenced to two years in federal prison for a $2.5 million extortion scheme targeting his employer.
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New Mexico Judge Orders Meta to Pay $567 Million in Kids Online Safety Case
A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $567 million in a kids online safety case, creating a $420 million youth treatment fund for social media harms to minors.
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Microsoft's Zero-Day Legal Threats Spark Backlash
After a disgruntled security researcher published several unpatched zero-day exploits in recent weeks, Microsoft seemingly indicated that criminal charges…
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LexisNexis Confirms Cloud Breach Exposing 400K User
LexisNexis Legal & Professional confirms a data breach after threat actor FulcrumSec exploited an unpatched React2Shell vulnerability to exfiltrate 2.04...
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Ex-L3Harris Executive Pleads Guilty to Selling Eight
Peter Williams, former GM of L3Harris's cyber subsidiary Trenchant, admits to selling eight zero-day exploit kits to a Russian broker for $1.3M in...