Information About On The Wire

Ransomware operations are not only a technological problem. They have evolved into systematized extortion campaigns that weaponize stolen data. Although two recent cases in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland involved standard tactics from the ransomware playbook they also … Read more »

The police in Britain arrested a member of the Royal Family and a former British ambassador to the United States on suspicion of misconduct in public office following the release of the Epstein files by the U.S. Department of Justice. The records disclose a global web of complicity from the politica … Read more »

Saudi dissident, Ghanem Al-Masarir, has been awarded £3m in damages by Britain’s High Court of Justice in a lawsuit against Saudi Arabia for hacking his cellphones with Pegasus spyware and directing his assault on a London street. The former satirist whose YouTube channels featured criticism of the … Read more »

Proactive policing includes the practice of heightening police presence to reduce crime. But a recent ruling from the Alberta Court of King’s Bench on a disclosure motion may indicate that other important outcomes are unclear. Is it good law enforcement policy to get guns off the streets if police i … Read more »

The crackdown on corporate fraud has continued with the recent indictment unsealed in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, charging Anthony Tepedino, C.E.O. of Allstate Sales Group, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. The indictment is another case … Read more »