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School Employee Allegedly Framed a Principal With Racist Deepfake Rant


This week in cybersecurity news: Google holds off on killing cookies, Samourai Wallet founders get arrested, GM stops its driver surveillance program, and a school principal's racist rant is revealed to be a deepfake.

Internal emails seen by the publications suggest ShotSpotter sensors may have stayed online despite law enforcement deals having expired, raising questions about what will happen to 2,500 microphones in Chicago when its contract runs out at the end of the year. A misconfigured North Korea cloud server, discovered at the end of last year, contained thousands of animation files, notes, and working documents for productions of shows that stream on Amazon Prime Video and Max. The company processed $2 billion in “unlawful transactions” and “facilitated more than $100 million in money laundering,” according to Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and other investigators.

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