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USA's SEC obtains urgent injunction against BKCoin what it claims is a "crypto fraud" - but the fraud has nothing to do with crypto.

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The USA's Security and Exchange Commission has obtained a series of orders against BKCoin Management LLC and one of its principals, Kevin Kang.

BIScom Subsection:

Cryptocurrencies and cryptoassets

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In the film, The Transporter, there are several rules for using the courier service Jason Statham offers. One is "Don't open the package."

In this utterly ridiculous spam-scam, someone using a gmail address that Google should be required to verify rights to but chooses not to, is pretending to be a courier - and to know what's in the package. The silly thing is that even if he was a courier and even if he did open the package he would not know the information upon which the fraud is predicated.

FCRO Subsection:

The Phishermans's Tale

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Thank you, Mrs Bezos

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As spam-scams go, this is one of the most rubbish.

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Online child abuse

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The National Crime Agency in the UK is at the leading edge of online child abuse and convictions are increasingly frequent. Usually, cases involve international investigations and the negotiating of relationships with multiple overseas agencies. But sometimes the case is entirely domestic, in more senses than one. And then prosecutions can be quick, as a man and his cohabitee who formed a team of abusers found out yesterday.

FCRO Subsection:

Financial Crime News

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Drupal 10 - Add file types to images

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If you want to add the .webp file type to your Drupal site, it's not there by default. So you have to add it.

This is one of those things that should be one click away from the main admin page but it isn't. And worse, it's not in any of the places you might first look.

Here's the guide on how to do it in ten seconds instead of ten minutes.

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We're moving....

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After about ten years as part of PleaseBeInformed.com, World Money Laundering Report is packing up and moving out.

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AUS: Suspended sentence for market manipulation.

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On 31 January 2023, Don George Evans of Woodlands, Western Australia, was sentenced in the Supreme Court of Western Australia to 12 months' imprisonment. Mr Evans will be released immediately upon entering into a recognisance of AUD5000, to be of good behaviour for two years.

BIScom Subsection:

Retail Securities

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ISDA issues its definitions relating to crypto

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As an global association of more than 1,000 participants in markets, the The International Swaps and Derivatives Association is influential and when it issues material it carries weight outside its own area of concern. So when it has published The ISDA Digital Asset Derivatives Definitions. It makes sense to pay attention, even if you aren't in swaps or derivatives.

BIScom Subsection:

Cryptocurrencies and cryptoassets

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Breaking Down the Benefits of Zero Trust Security: Reducing Risk, Improving Compliance & Enhancing Cybersecurity

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Gokul Vasudev has over 18 years of experience in providing key IT security and assurance functions. In this article he explains what zero trust is (it isn't the same as "trustless" in crypto) and why is an effective approach to addressing risks in today's digital landscape.

CoNet Section:

IT & Communications

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Now Norton's LifeLock Password Manager has been breached.

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Less than month after LastPass admitted a large scale breach of its much vaunted password manager, the old man of computer security, Norton, has said that its LifeLock password manager has also been breached. Is there an industry-wide problem?

CoNet Section:

IT & Communications

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How police unravel the tech used by child molesters to disguise themselves.

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Martyn Armstrong has been jailed for life after admitting the rape and sexual assault of young children and posting images of the abuse on the dark web.

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Betting on raindrops.

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When Americans discovered "day trading" they thought they were onto something new.

They weren't.

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CoNet Section:

Media & Publishing

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Harmonising Crypto across the EU

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John Ho discusses the Regulation on Markets in Crypto-Assets or MiCA.

BIScom Subsection:

Cryptocurrencies and cryptoassets

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Instead of throwing money into new companies that make bad investments, try this

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An iconic land - scratch that - watermark is in trouble. The 145 years old Star Ferry has suffered a perfect storm and for any water craft, that's always a bad thing. But there's a solution, albeit one that goes against the tide in modern commercial thinking.

CoNet Section:

Capital Raising

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Online child abuse

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We hear a lot about human trafficking and, in particular, sex trafficking. We hear about the women found dead or dying with needles in their arms, often beaten, regularly diseased and we are rightly appalled. But this is the neatly packaged, western, developed country, even sanitised end of the trade.

There is worse, much worse....

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