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Livermore Poet Laureate Cynthia Patton has announced the winners in the city’s fifth annual science poetry contest, “Poetry in a Test Tube,” designed to celebrate Livermore’s scientific heritage. In the Youth Division (kindergarten through fifth grade), first place went Avery Lockhart, Leo R. Croce Elementary, for “Rain, Rain, Where Have You Been?” Second place went to Caleb McWhorter, Emma C. Smith Elementary, for “The Egret,” and third place went to Imo...

The Regulation Process for FinCEN’s New Beneficial Ownership Reporting Requirement Launches - The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an Advanced Notice...

Plus: Top universities hit by data-stealing extortionists Share Copy in Brief It was a tsunami of DNS queries that ultimately took out a host of Microsoft services, from Xbox Live to Teams, for some netizens about an hour on April Fools Day, Redmond has said. Or as the Windows giant put it, the outage was the result of "an anomalous surge in DNS queries from across the globe targeting a set of domains hosted on Azure." In a postmortem examination of the downtime, Microsoft said the floo...

DeepDotWeb Administrator Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Conspiracy Details Written by IVN Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - An Israeli national pleaded guilty Wednesday for his role in operating DeepDotWeb (DDW), a website that connected internet users with Darknet marketplaces, where they purchased illegal firearms, malware and hacking tools, stolen financial data, heroin and fentanyl, and other contraband. According to court documents, Tal Prihar, 37, an Israeli citize...

DeepDotWeb Administrator Admits Darknet Conspiracy A website owner who received millions of dollars in kickbacks for connecting internet users to Darknet marketplaces has pleaded guilty in a US court to conspiracy to commit money laundering.  Thirty-seven-year-old Brazil resident Tal Prihar owned and operated DeepDotWeb along with his co-defendant and fellow Israeli national, 34-year-old Michael Phan.  Established in 2013, the site not only provided general i...

DeepDotWeb Admin Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Charges DeepDotWeb (DDW), a "news" website that "served as a gateway to numerous dark web marketplaces." According to the unsealed court documents, Tal Prihar, 37, an Israeli citizen residing in Brazil, operated DDW alongside Michael Phan, 34, of Israel, starting October 2013, in return for which they received kickbacks from the operators of the marketplaces in the form of virtual currency amounting to 8,155 bitcoins (worth $8.4 million at th...

DeepDotWeb Portal Administrator Pleads Guilty @prajeetspeaks) • April 1, 2021     The shuttered DeepDotWeb portal An Israeli citizen who served as the administrator of the now-shuttered DeepDotWeb portal that connected internet users with darknet marketplaces has pleaded guilty to a money laundering conspiracy charge, according to the U.S. Justice Department. DeepDotWeb helped its users’ to find sites where they co...