US indictments and raids of piracy group members in "The Scene" throw top-tier piracy world into chaos
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Seventeen-year-old in Tampa, Florida arrested and accused of "masterminding" the compromises of prominent Twitter accounts on July 15, charged with thirty felonies
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CyberBunker: The "bulletproof web hosting" company based in a German Cold War bunker that became a dark-web empire
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Garmin services and production go down after ransomware attack
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Hundreds arrested after European law enforcement agencies monitored over 100 million encrypted messages sent through Encrochat, a network used by criminals
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US officials are ramping up criticism of the GDPR, which they say protects cybercriminals
17 votes -
Wrongfully accused by an algorithm
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Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou loses key court battle as British Columbia judge rules extradition bid should proceed
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Algorithms associating appearance and criminality have a dark past
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Microsoft's GitHub account allegedly hacked, 500GB stolen
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Google tracked his bike ride past a burglarized home. That made him a suspect.
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I got a Ring doorbell camera. It scared the hell out of me.
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What to know before you buy or install an Amazon Ring camera
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Report detailing online activity of US Coast Guard officer accused of domestic terrorism shows extensive searches on white supremacy, conspiracy theories, and thousands of visits to /r/MGTOW
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Ponzi schemes, private yachts, and a missing $250 million in crypto: The strange tale of Quadriga and its founder's mysterious death
8 votes -
Social media influencer sentenced to fourteen years in federal prison after plotting to hijack internet domain at gunpoint
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The citizen scientist who finds killers from her couch: How CeCe Moore is using her genetic knowledge to expose murderers
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Virgil Griffith, research scientist at the Ethereum Foundation, has been arrested for advising North Korea on how to use cryptocurrency to evade sanctions
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Cybercrime Booms As Scammers Hack Human Nature To Steal Billions
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Dogolachan and the ghost of massacres past
5 votes -
Swedish police can use spyware to hunt criminal gangs – police to use the latest technology to access everyday encrypted apps used by criminals
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"Satori" Internet-of-Things botnet operator Kenneth Currin Schuchman pleads guilty
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US Senator says Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg should face ‘possibility of a prison term’
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The crowdfunded Dragonfly Futurefön scammed backers for over $725,000, but was only the last step in a decade-long multi-million dollar fraud
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Ottawa city hall has been targeted by cyber attacks more than 8,000 times in the past year
8 votes -
In an apparent first, genetic genealogy aids a wrongful conviction case
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Inside Apple factory thefts: Secret tunnels, hidden crawl spaces
11 votes -
Is it okay to laugh at Florida Man? What it’s like to go viral as one of the Internet’s biggest memes — and the moral complications of laughing along
11 votes -
Former Microsoft software engineer charged with mail fraud for using test Microsoft Store accounts to steal more than $10 million in digital currency
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Bianca Devins and how livestreamed murder may be replacing the archetype of the serial killer, enabling people to vault to celebrity on the strength of a single, viral attack
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In response to mass shootings, some schools and hospitals are installing microphones equipped with algorithms
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8chan is raided by the FBI regarding California synagogue shooter
@swodinsky: lmaooooooo 8chan just got search warranted
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San Francisco says it will use AI to reduce bias when charging people with crimes
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Ring is using its customers’ doorbell camera video for ads. It says it's allowed to
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YouTuber in Barcelona receives fifteen-month prison sentence, 20,000 euro fine, and five-year ban from social media for toothpaste-filled Oreo prank
18 votes -
Man cons Apple out of 1,493 iPhones
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The rise of fear-based social media like Nextdoor, Citizen, and now Amazon’s Neighbors
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The woman who plotted a Valentine's mass murder shares how the internet radicalized her
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Marcus “MalwareTech” Hutchins pleads guilty to writing, selling banking malware
6 votes -
Anti-Muslim hate has been rampant on Reddit since the New Zealand shooting
17 votes -
How Facebook's hour of inaction enabled the Christchurch video to spread
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Why tech companies failed to keep the New Zealand shooter’s extremism from going viral
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The eerie absence of viral fakes after the New Zealand mosque attacks
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Hated and hunted - The perilous life of the computer virus cracker making powerful enemies online
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Taxed, throttled or thrown in jail: Africa's new internet paradigm
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Canada has formally commenced the process to extradite Meng Wanzhou, CFO of Huawei to the USA
9 votes -
How AI is transforming the fight against money laundering
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The Feds cracked El Chapo's encrypted comms network by flipping his system admin
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The FBI has seized the domains of fifteen DDoS-for-hire services, and filed criminal charges against three people associated with them
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Keyboardio was deceived and defrauded for over a year by the account manager handling their manufacturing in China
18 votes