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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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Tracking & Law Enforcement
After its CEO was arrested last summer, Telegram has been increasingly sharing user data at the request of authorities.
Tracking & Law Enforcement
Vitalii Antonenko has been sentenced to 69 months in prison for hacking, but he is being released as he has been detained since 2019.
Cybercrime
The US announced the takedown of Rydox, a marketplace for stolen personal information, and the arrest of three administrators.
Malware & Threats
Germany’s cybersecurity agency BSI has sinkholed a botnet of 30,000 devices shipped with BadBox malware pre-installed.
Tracking & Law Enforcement
Law enforcement agencies in 15 countries cooperated in taking down 27 websites selling DDoS-for-hire services.
Tracking & Law Enforcement
The US government announced charges, sanctions and a reward for Guan Tianfeng, a Chinese national accused of involvement in Sophos firewall hacks.
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...
Data Breaches
PowerSchool says the personal information of students and educators was stolen in a December 2024 data breach.
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