Man who made $542,925 renting out DDoS services sentenced to prison

A 21-year-old man who made half a million dollars running DDoS-for-hire services has been sentenced to prison for 13 months. Between August 2015 to November 2017 Sergiy P. Usatyuk of Orland Park, Illinois, and a co-conspirator, operated a number of &#8… Continue reading Man who made $542,925 renting out DDoS services sentenced to prison

Ransomware Strikes Again in the State of Louisiana

Ransomware hit Louisiana’s state government hard yesterday, shutting down multiple websites and email systems after it fell victim for the second time in just a few months to a ransomware attack.
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Only after running out of hard disk space did firm realise hacker had stolen one million users’ details

Yet another company has been found woefully lacking when it comes to securing consumers’ data.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
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Smashing Security #154: A buttock of biometrics

The UK’s Labour Party kicks off its election campaign with claims that it has suffered a sophisticated cyber-attack, Apple’s credit card is accused of being sexist, and what is Google up to with Project Nightingale?
All this and much more i… Continue reading Smashing Security #154: A buttock of biometrics