Fujitsu bugs that sent innocent people to prison were known “from the start” but concealed from lawyers and judges Article 756 words 104 votes
An anti-porn app put him in jail and his family under surveillance - A court used an app called Covenant Eyes to surveil the family of a man released on bond Article 635 words 42 votes
Most of my Instagram ads are for drugs, stolen credit cards, hacked accounts, counterfeit money, and weapons social media Article 2660 words, published Aug 23 2023 41 votes
Lego requests California police department stop using their toy heads to cover suspect mugshots on social media social media Article 267 words 40 votes
US Special Counsel got a search warrant for Twitter to turn over info on Donald Trump’s account social media Article 490 words 40 votes
Searching for Susy Thunder [a famous computer hacker of the 80s] Article 6980 words, published Jan 26 2022 39 votes
‘Flying aliens’ harassing village in Peru are actually illegal miners with jetpacks, cops say Article published Aug 14 2023 37 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
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
The FBI’s new tactic: Catching American suspects with push alerts google apple Article 1646 words, published Feb 29 2024 32 votes
Baltimore high school athletic director used AI to create fake racist audio of principal: Police Article 732 words 31 votes
The Court of the Hague orders Meta to unmask anonymous Dutch user accused of repeated defamatory posts social media facebook privacy Article 684 words 31 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
Two popular Danish television presenters have reported Meta to the police after finding their images and words had been manipulated and misused in thousands of Facebook ads social media facebook Article 345 words 29 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
US indictments and raids of piracy group members in "The Scene" throw top-tier piracy world into chaos Article 1146 words 28 votes
Journalist Tim Burke faces charges under the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Article 965 words, published Feb 23 2024 27 votes
To make sure grandmas like his don't get conned, he scams the scammers social media Article 1624 words 25 votes
An instant fake ID factory - An underground website called OnlyFake is claiming to use “neural networks” to generate realistic looking photos of fake IDs for just $15 Article 294 words 25 votes
‘Neural network’ fake ID site goes dark after 404 Media investigation - Site creator denies illegal applications after boasting of them Link 23 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
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 social media Article 1567 words 23 votes
Criminals are getting increasingly adept at crafting malicious AI prompts to get data out of ChatGPT Article 495 words 22 votes
‘Robot dog’ damaged by bullets during armed standoff in Barnstable, State Police say Article 512 words 21 votes
Twitter accused of helping Saudi Arabia commit human rights abuses social media Article 1155 words 21 votes
Bad software sent postal workers to jail, because no one wanted to admit it could be wrong Article 665 words 20 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
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
She was a notorious hacker in the '80s - then she disappeared: Searching for Susy Thunder Article 6980 words, published Jan 26 2022 19 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
Social media influencer sentenced to fourteen years in federal prison after plotting to hijack internet domain at gunpoint Article 1011 words 19 votes
The King of Jordan approved a cybercrime bill that will crack down on online speech deemed harmful to national unity internet Article 304 words 18 votes
Man found guilty in 2012 of supporting distribution of child porn, because he ran a Tor exit node – the story of William Weber Article 3005 words 18 votes
Google tracked his bike ride past a burglarized home. That made him a suspect. privacy google Article 1146 words 18 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
Ring is using its customers’ doorbell camera video for ads. It says it's allowed to privacy amazon security.home Article 1420 words 18 votes
YouTuber in Barcelona receives fifteen-month prison sentence, 20,000 euro fine, and five-year ban from social media for toothpaste-filled Oreo prank social media Article 495 words 18 votes
Keyboardio was deceived and defrauded for over a year by the account manager handling their manufacturing in China Link 18 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
DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin stash seized security.cyber Article 577 words 17 votes
Drug cartel now assassinates its enemies with bomb-toting drones Article 872 words, published Aug 28 2020 17 votes
US officials are ramping up criticism of the GDPR, which they say protects cybercriminals privacy Article 17 votes
The woman who plotted a Valentine's mass murder shares how the internet radicalized her internet social media Article 2274 words, published Feb 21 2019 17 votes
Anti-Muslim hate has been rampant on Reddit since the New Zealand shooting social media Article 1298 words 17 votes