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Verizon Strike Intensifies: Company Battles Network Sabotage and Aggressive Picketing TacticsIn the IT Security space we’re constantly reminded of the dangers from the “insider...
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We all know they’re watching us. But we don’t know who they are, nor why nor how they are doing it.
Cybercrime
Thalha Jubair and Owen Flowers were prosecuted over a 2024 cyberattack targeting Transport for London (TfL).
Cybercrime
Prosecutors say 19-year-old Peter Stokes was a member of Scattered Spider, the hacking group linked to more than 100 network intrusions and over $100...
Cybercrime
NetNut rented access to millions of compromised devices, allowing cybercriminals and nation-state actors to mask their identities during attacks.
Cyberwarfare
Battle over Attribution Continues, China a Major Victim of Cyber AttacksA senior cyber-security official in China said recently that the country wants to work with...
Tracking & Law Enforcement
After announcing they had defaced Websites belonging to more than 70 different law enforcement agencies across the U.S., hacktivist collective Anonymous, as part of...
Privacy
Say you’re pulled over, can a police offer demand you turn over your cell phone? Is the officer entitled to look at or take...
Cybercrime
For many years law enforcement turned to the public for aid in identifying and tracking criminal suspects. This was done through famous WANTED posters...
Cybercrime
A hacker that had been found with more than 675,000 stolen credit card numbers that reportedly led to loses totaling more than $36 million,...
Cybercrime
In response to an article published by NPR surrounding the recent arrest of alleged members of the Anonymous hacking group, Anonymous & Lulz Security,...
Cybercrime
FBI agents executed more than 35 search warrants and arrested fourteen alleged members of the Anonymous hacking collective in a coordinated crackdown across the...
Cybercrime
Operators Sold Networking Gear Supported by Counterfeit Cisco Labels, Boxes, Manuals and Serial Numbers Obtained from Cisco Support SiteAfter selling $1 million worth of counterfeit...
Tracking & Law Enforcement
A former vice president in Citigroup, Inc.’s treasury finance department has been arrested on bank fraud charges arising from his embezzlement of more than...
Management & Strategy
As I wrote in an earlier column, “The Optimist’s Cybercrime Predictions for 2011”, in recent years many efforts have been taken to improve the...
Cybercrime
A former Bank of America (BOA) computer programmer was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison, after he installed malware on Bank of America...
Tracking & Law Enforcement
In Boston, an employee of an MBTA subcontractor has been arrested in connection with an alleged scheme to produce millions of dollars’ worth of...
Tracking & Law Enforcement
For nearly a year, 22 year-old Lucas Henderson of Texas has been creating and distributing fake coupons, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars...
Tracking & Law Enforcement
Earlier this week, several news outlets reported that the 20-year-old son of Kaspersky Lab CEO, Eugene Kaspersky, had gone missing, with kidnappers reportedly demanding...
Tracking & Law Enforcement
A Michigan woman pleaded guilty today to selling counterfeit computer software which reportedly earned her over $400,000. Jacinda Jones, 31, of Ypsilanti, Michigan pleaded...
Cybercrime
Following the successful takedown of the Bredolab and Rustock botnets in November 2010 and March 2011, respectively, authorities have fired shots at another botnet.The...
Tracking & Law Enforcement
Congressman Eric Cantor is the target of one man’s rage. Luckily, Norman LeBoon, of Philadelphia, will be behind bars for the next 24 months,...
Tracking & Law Enforcement
Hacker Posted Video of Himself Compromising a Hospital’s Computer System on YouTubeJesse William McGraw, a former contract security guard at the North Central Medical...
Tracking & Law Enforcement
A former Goldman Sachs programmer responsible for developing programs that power the firm's high-frequency trading systems – a key to millions in profits for...
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