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British company director is extradited to US from Morocco over £25million Bitcoin scam and faces 40 years in federal prison – 18 April 2018
British company director Renwick Haddow is facing 40 years in a US jail. Haddow, who lives in New York was extradited from Morocco to the US. Federal prosecutors said Haddow was banned in the UK from being a director He was accused by UK authorities of ripping off investors for £500,000
Former Macquarie exec guilty of money laundering and tax evasion – 18 April 2018
Former finance professor and Macquarie Bank executive Dr Tony Castagna is behind bars after a Supreme Court jury found him guilty of tax evasion, money laundering and dealing with the proceeds of crime.
WD launches Purple MicroSD for next-gen surveillance-class video capture – 18 April 2018
The Western Digital Purple microSD card is the ideal solution for mainstream commercial surveillance data at the edge. “Whether capturing 4K video, used in AI-enabled cameras, or part of a larger data system supporting ‘smart surveillance’ applications, this rugged and intelligent card delivers ‘surveillance-class’ endurance and tremendous performance to enable trusted video capture in the harshest conditions.
Stripe Debuts Radar anti-fraud AI tools for big businesses, says it has halted $4B in fraud to date – 18 April 2018
Cybersecurity continues to be a growing focus and problem in the digital world, and now Stripe is launching a new paid product that it hopes will help its customers better battle one of the bigger side-effects of data breaches: online payment fraud. Today, Stripe is announcing Radar for Fraud Teams, an expansion of its free AI-based Radar service that runs alongside Stripe’s core payments API to help identify and block fraudulent transactions.
