A recent audit by the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s information security practices fall short, and that many weaknesses are tied to systems run by the IRS and the Treasury Communications System (TCS). The GAO examined FinCEN’s systems and the points where it consumes IRS and TCS data used to administer the Bank Secrecy Act, reviewing activity from March 2008 through January 2009. While auditors acknowledged that each...

Netflix Karen Read Case Doc Netflix Docuseries to Explore Controversial Karen Read Case Following Acquittal The highly publicized legal battle surrounding the death of Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe has reached its conclusion, with Karen Read being acquitted of the most serious charges against her. Netflix's upcoming three-part documentary series aims to examine this complex case that captured national attention. In January 2022, O'Keefe was discovered unconscious in snowy conditions...

2001 turned into a record-breaking year for Japanese cinemas, with total ticket sales jumping to about 163.3 million — roughly a 20.6% rise from 2000. Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away, distributed by Toho, dominated the market and dethroned Titanic to become Japan’s highest-grossing film, finishing the year near $227 million domestically. Hollywood fare still performed well: Spielberg’s A.I. earned about $78 million in Japan, while the late-year release of Harry Potter...

A supposed act of revenge against Fannie Mae was thwarted when engineers found a covert, destructive script tucked into a routine Unix file, and the suspect — 35-year-old Rajendrasinh Babubha Makwana — was taken into custody. Makwana, an Indian national working for an Omnitech subcontractor as a Unix engineer at Fannie Mae’s Urbana, Maryland site, was dismissed on October 24 after he accidentally deployed a script that altered permissions on company Unix servers. He was told...

VPN for ABC iView Access ABC iView is restricted to viewers inside Australia, so if you try to stream live or on-demand content while traveling overseas, the player will usually refuse to load because of geographic licensing controls. A VPN (virtual private network) can solve this by masking your real IP and making it look like you’re connecting from Australia, while also encrypting your traffic to keep it private. Quick picks for streaming ABC iView from abroad: NordVPN —...

VPNs for German Streaming Love Island Germany Season 3 is broadcast on RTL II and its streaming platform (TVNOW), both of which restrict access to viewers inside Germany. If you’re outside Germany, a VPN is the simplest way to watch legally by giving your device a German IP address. What a VPN does: A virtual private network (VPN) reroutes and encrypts your internet traffic through a server in another country. Connect to a German server and services like RTL II/TVNOW will treat you as...

A glaring technical hiccup caused Google to erroneously brand countless websites as malware distributors for roughly forty minutes on Saturday morning. This system-wide alert stemmed from a simple yet critical human mistake: a single forward slash ("/") was incorrectly added to Google's threat database, expanding its scope to effectively encompass the entire web. While Google swiftly acknowledged the error and rectified it, a significant dispute ignited regarding the origin of their malware...

Lou Pearlman's Controversial Legacy In the late 1990s and early 2000s, mainstream pop seemed to follow a simple recipe: a handful of charismatic young men, tight harmonies, earworm choruses and synchronized dance moves — and the world would sing along. Behind many of those acts was Lou Pearlman, the impresario who engineered careers for groups like the Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC and O-Town. What began as manufactured stardom quickly turned into bitter public splits, as those groups...

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Bridgerton-Inspired Lifestyle Collections Transform mere admiration into perpetual Regency enchantment; Let not the Bridgerton allure fade after the credits roll. Embrace the corset's elegance; Savor endless lemonade; Why confine such fantasies to fleeting screen time? Netflix and Shondaland unveil an exquisite escape: A curated existence drenched in ton splendor—every single day. Awaken swathed in gossamer pajamas; Lather with bath oils whispering of Mayfair soirées; Steep...

Boy Band Scandal Netflix’s new three-part limited series peels back the sparkle of late-1990s pop stardom to expose a high-profile entertainment scandal. At the height of the Y2K music boom, coordinated choreography, glossy music videos and the early internet fused to create a global appetite for tightly packaged pop groups. Acts like the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC dominated radio and magazines, but behind their meteoric rise stood a singular architect: Lou Pearlman — a man who...

Studios and filmmakers are lining up new literary and screen projects across Hollywood, from historical epics to small-screen capers. Twentieth Century Fox and James Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment have secured an option on Steven Pressfield’s forthcoming novel Last of the Amazons, a tale of lethal female warriors who nearly conquer ancient Greece. The book, due from Doubleday in June, explores a tribe of women hunters who shun men except for breeding — a premise that...