Former eBay security manager sentenced to eighteen months in prison for his role in cyber-stalking campaign against eBay critics Article 504 words 13 votes
18-year-old member of online harassment group sentenced to five years in prison after "swatting" the owner of a desirable Twitter handle, resulting in a fatal heart attack social media Article 1275 words 31 votes
Norway says cyber attack on parliament carried out from China – attack had utilised a security hole in Microsoft's Exchange software microsoft security.cyber Article 341 words 10 votes
US Department of Justice recovers $2.3 million worth of Bitcoin that Colonial Pipeline paid to ransomware extortionists security.cyber Article 883 words 17 votes
US FBI secretly ran the An0m encrypted messaging platform, yields hundreds of arrests in global sting Article 249 words 7 votes
Supreme Court reins in definition of crime under controversial hacking law Article 1725 words 12 votes
Heat List - Chicago PD automated policing program got this man shot twice Article 5235 words 10 votes
DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin stash seized security.cyber Article 577 words 17 votes
Ransomware gang threatens release of DC police records privacy security.cyber Article 447 words 10 votes
A closer look at the DarkSide ransomware gang, which was responsible for the recent attack on Colonial Pipeline security.cyber Article 1381 words 15 votes
Australian Criminal Intelligence Agency looking to expand it's intelligence gathering powers by claiming that criminals use encrypted platforms 'almost exclusively' privacy Link 19 votes
Midnight Sun K-Pop ‘pirates’ being reported to INTERPOL, streaming platform warns Article 891 words 6 votes
New York Attorney General issues report detailing millions of fake comments, revealing secret campaign to influence FCC’s 2017 repeal of net neutrality rules Article 1035 words 28 votes
Bad software sent postal workers to jail, because no one wanted to admit it could be wrong Article 665 words 20 votes
Drug cartel now assassinates its enemies with bomb-toting drones Article 872 words, published Aug 28 2020 17 votes
A twenty-year-old man was fatally shot while filming a YouTube "prank" robbery social media Article 193 words 16 votes
ADT employee covertly accessed about 200 security cameras he installed to spy on people having sex privacy security.home Article 472 words 9 votes
Sweeping new copyright measures poised to pass in spending bill - The CASE Act and a felony streaming proposal are included Article 448 words 36 votes
Why the extortion of Vastaamo matters far beyond Finland – and how cyber pros are responding privacy security.cyber Article 968 words 4 votes
FBI, DHS, HHS warn of imminent, credible ransomware threat against US hospitals Article 678 words 13 votes
Norway has blamed Russia for a cyberattack on the email system in the parliament in August – Moscow has rejected the claim, calling it a serious and wilful provocation security.cyber Article 39 words 6 votes
Telegrass and the next generation of digital black markets - Telegram-based services are facilitating much of the drug sales in Ukraine, Israel, and other countries Article 2676 words 13 votes
US indictments and raids of piracy group members in "The Scene" throw top-tier piracy world into chaos Article 1146 words 28 votes
Seventeen-year-old in Tampa, Florida arrested and accused of "masterminding" the compromises of prominent Twitter accounts on July 15, charged with thirty felonies security social media Article 1094 words 34 votes
CyberBunker: The "bulletproof web hosting" company based in a German Cold War bunker that became a dark-web empire Article 11 053 words 10 votes
Hundreds arrested after European law enforcement agencies monitored over 100 million encrypted messages sent through Encrochat, a network used by criminals privacy Article 2927 words 20 votes
US officials are ramping up criticism of the GDPR, which they say protects cybercriminals privacy Article 17 votes
Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou loses key court battle as British Columbia judge rules extradition bid should proceed Article 984 words 7 votes
Microsoft's GitHub account allegedly hacked, 500GB stolen microsoft security Article 375 words 11 votes
Google tracked his bike ride past a burglarized home. That made him a suspect. privacy google Article 1146 words 18 votes
I got a Ring doorbell camera. It scared the hell out of me. amazon privacy security.home Article 1905 words, published Feb 13 2020 11 votes
What to know before you buy or install an Amazon Ring camera amazon privacy security.home Article 1348 words 8 votes
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 Article 986 words 18 votes
Ponzi schemes, private yachts, and a missing $250 million in crypto: The strange tale of Quadriga and its founder's mysterious death Article 8102 words 8 votes
Social media influencer sentenced to fourteen years in federal prison after plotting to hijack internet domain at gunpoint Article 1011 words 19 votes
The citizen scientist who finds killers from her couch: How CeCe Moore is using her genetic knowledge to expose murderers privacy Link 8 votes
Virgil Griffith, research scientist at the Ethereum Foundation, has been arrested for advising North Korea on how to use cryptocurrency to evade sanctions Article 814 words 23 votes
Swedish police can use spyware to hunt criminal gangs – police to use the latest technology to access everyday encrypted apps used by criminals Link 8 votes
Thieves used voice-mimicking software to imitate a company executive’s speech and dupe his subordinate into sending $243,000 to a secret account Article 1453 words 20 votes
"Satori" Internet-of-Things botnet operator Kenneth Currin Schuchman pleads guilty security Article 849 words 5 votes
US Senator says Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg should face ‘possibility of a prison term’ facebook social media Article 309 words 14 votes
The extortion economy: How insurance companies are fueling a rise in ransomware attacks security.cyber Article 3888 words 12 votes
The crowdfunded Dragonfly Futurefön scammed backers for over $725,000, but was only the last step in a decade-long multi-million dollar fraud Article 3976 words 13 votes
Ottawa city hall has been targeted by cyber attacks more than 8,000 times in the past year security.cyber Article 608 words 8 votes