US Marines accused of sharing nude photos of female colleagues – BBC News

Anonymous marinesThe US defence department is investigating reports that a number of marines shared naked and semi-naked photographs of female colleagues on Facebook.The pictures were posted within a members-only group called Marines United, and were accompanied by vulgar and highly aggressive sexual messages.The group has now been closed down.”[This] is a direct attack on our ethos and legacy,” said top enlisted marine Sgt Maj Ronald Green.The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) has also launched an investigation.”This behaviour hurts fellow marines, family members, and civilians,” said Sgt Maj Green in a written statement.The Facebook group included around 30,000 active and retired male marines.

To keep Tor hack source code secret, DOJ dismisses child porn case | Ars Technica

Feds may let Playpen child porn suspect go to keep concealing their source code
Rather than share the now-classified technological means that investigators used to locate a child porn suspect, federal prosecutors in Washington state have dropped all charges against a man accused of accessing Playpen, a notorious and now-shuttered website.
The case, United States v. Jay Mochaud, is one of nearly 200 cases nationwide that have raised new questions about the appropriate limitations on the government’s ability to hack criminal suspects. Mochaud marks just the second time that prosecutors have asked that case be dismissed.

Inside the TalkTalk ‘Indian scam call centre’ – BBC News

TalkTalk customers are being targeted by an industrial-scale fraud network in India, according to whistleblowers who say they were among hundreds of staff hired to scam customers of the British telecoms giant.The scale of the criminal operation has been detailed by the three sources, who say they were employed by two front-companies set up by a gang of professional fraudsters.The sources describe working in “call centres” in two Indian cities.They say as many as 60 “employees” work in shifts in each office, phoning TalkTalk customers and duping them into giving access to their bank accounts.The whistleblowers say they were given a script in whoch they were told to claim they were calling from TalkTalk.They say they then convinced victims to install a computer virus.