In the 1990s, at least 50 Christian churches in Norway were attacked by arsonists in the name of black metal, a subgenre of heavy metal music. Varg Vikernes was among the most infamous black metal musicians to be convicted of church arson in this period.
A member of a black metal band himself, Matthews told prosecutors he believed the acts would elevate his status.
He admitted to posting pictures and videos of the church burnings to Facebook "in an effort to promote himself in the black metal community".CNN - Attorney general announces round of lawsuits to confront resistance of 'sanctuary cities' -
"Today is a significant escalation in the federal government's efforts to confront the resistance of 'sanctuary cities,' " Barr said. "We will consider taking action against any jurisdiction that, or any politician who, unlawfully obstructs the federal enforcement of immigration law."Reuters - Judge denies Uber's, Postmates' request to halt California gig worker law -
U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee in Los Angeles said that while the companies had proven they could suffer a degree of irreparable harm as a result of the law, the potential risks to them were less important than the public interest in setting a living wage and regulating employment.HackTheBox - China spent years collecting Americans' personal information. The U.S. just called it out. -
In doing so, Barr publicly confirmed that China has been collecting troves of personal data on U.S. citizens for years. Beginning around 2014, a host of American organizations that store personal identifying information were hacked, with either the government or major private cybersecurity firms attributing China’s Ministry of State Security as the culprit each time. Personal identifying information, or PII, includes names, addresses, birthdays and Social Security numbers.The Verge - Google’s head of HR is leaving while worker unrest continues -
Perhaps needless to say, Google’s culture hasn’t been in the best shape for a while. The company is still reeling from the revelations that multiple high-level Google and Alphabet executives were reportedly involved in sexual harassment or inappropriate sexual relationships, some of whom received multimillion-dollar severance packages after the fact, which angered Google employees to the point 20,000 of them staged a walkout.Seattle PI - 15 U.S. senators sign letter to Jeff Bezos demanding Amazon put worker safety ahead of profits -
Sens. Brown (D-OH), Sanders (D-VT), and Baldwin (D-WI) led the letter expressing concerns over workplace safety, which follows an investigation from The Atlantic which uncovered that work-related injuries at Amazon's fulfillment centers were over double the national average for private sector employees and the warehouse industry as a whole. The report pointed to strict quota requirements that force workers to fulfill order quickly as a main cause of this higher injury rate, and found a higher injury rate in the busy shopping period before Chirstmas.Yahoo - Elizabeth Holmes is pushing to get the Theranos fraud case thrown out -
Per CNBC, Holmes' attorney Amy Saharia argued Monday that the government indictment is "full of ambiguity and fudging language." Saharia also refuted the claim that Theranos' technology didn't work per the Mercury News, pointing to two specific instances cited by the prosecution involving an HIV test and two pregnancy tests.
"All tests have error rates [...] The government should not be permitted to try a case with anecdotes when incorrect blood tests are a fact of life," she said.Twitter via Hacker News - We already store data. In a database. It works well. -
Jimmy Wales, in response to a suggestion that Wikipedia use bitcoin to eliminate child porn contributions, which wasn't a problem I was aware they were having.
Washington Post - ‘The intelligence coup of the century’ -
For more than half a century, governments all over the world trusted a single company to keep the communications of their spies, soldiers and diplomats secret.
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But what none of its customers ever knew was that Crypto AG was secretly owned by the CIA in a highly classified partnership with West German intelligence. These spy agencies rigged the company’s devices so they could easily break the codes that countries used to send encrypted messages.
Security Boulevard - Are Utilities Ready to Defend Against Industrial Cyber Threats? -
While some utility companies surveyed in the Siemens/Ponemon report felt they were highly prepared for a breach, many did not. Overall, 42 percent of respondents rated their cyber readiness as high and 31 percent rated their ability to contain a breach as high. Smaller organizations were less confident in their security preparedness than large ones. Significantly, most respondents rated their ability to inventory their digital assets as low. There are many reasons for this deficit of preparation including lack of visibility into networks, lack of training and qualified personnel, slow response to security incidents, and an incorrect belief that security for IT assets would also protect OT assets.
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