Florida’s House and Senate has passed vote crime legislation that was a priority of the DeSantis Administration with the bill heading to the Governor’s desk for signature. In response, Democrat’s use their disingenuous talking point “but it’s not widespread!” to oppose this legislation protecting all votes by strengthening safeguards and hardening penalties for vote...
The financial services industry may have better cyber defences than most but they can still be breached, as demonstrated by numerous high-profile cases. These include Travelex, the UK foreign currency dealer, which was infected with ransomware on New Yearâs Eve 2019, and forced to take its systems offline for weeks to prevent it spreading; and UniCredit, Italyâs...
These reviews are a part of pop justice, Scalawag’s newsletter exploring the intersection of popular culture and justice—namely through abolition. Sign up here. By Adedoyin “Ade” Adeniji There are plenty of reasons to wonder why Americans are so obsessed with true crime. Theories about this obsession abound on the internet. Some people suggest...
Several high-profile supply chain attacks in the last year, including SolarWinds, Accellion, Microsoft Exchange, and Kaseya, have shone a spotlight on the cyber security risk of attacks on third-party vendors to financial firms, their customers and the wider financial system. These events, as well as visible ransomware attacks against other industries and cross...
During one of my routine channel surfs, I land on A&E. The episode is on. I catch it just at the beginning where the falling snow seems to fluoresce under a streetlight, the victim’s jacket askew on top of the snow, in some field, next to another field, next to a rundown house. I can still feel the cold trigger warm on my finger and how upset I was that...
A visitor perusing the fifth floor of France’s Centre Pompidou will encounter two very different compositions in short succession. Wassily Kandinsky’s Picture with a Black Arch is a hodgepodge of lurid blotches and angular black streaks, now recognized as one of the first fully abstract paintings to come out of Europe. Nearby hangs Marc Chagall’s The Wedding. Painted...
This essay is a part of pop justice, Scalawag’s newsletter exploring the intersection of popular culture and justice—namely through abolition. Sign up here. The fourth-ever episode of the long-running “true crime” show Snapped introduces “a twisted tale of sex, betrayal, and cold-blooded murder.” Elena Kiejliches, a Russian immigrant...
The historic surge in U.S. homicides which began immediately after the murder of Minneapolis resident George Floyd in 2020 continued into 2021, according to crime data provided by the FBI and augmented by the nonprofit Murder Accountability Project (MAP). The Uniform Crime Report (UCR), the official accounting of crime in America, showed more than a 28 percent...