Collaborate Disseminate
For $20/month, one of the services, PhoneBomber, would call a victim once an hour for a month with streams of expletive-sprinkled threats. Continue reading Lizard Squad, PoodleCorp members arrested in DDoS-for-hire bust
Amazon says that during “routine monitoring,” it stumbled on a set of customers’ email and password sets posted in a non-Amazon spot online. Continue reading Amazon finds cache of reused passwords: change yours now!
Police in India located three office buildings packed with hundreds of people posing as IRS officials. Continue reading $15 million fake IRS call center busted by police
According to new guidance for prosecutors, being “grossly abusive” to people will lead to the same prosecution as if it were done offline. 
Continue reading Cyberbullies could be jailed in the UK for ruining people’s lives
Those advertising service sound-alikes should be renamed to WeChargeYouBigBucks and WePayYouLittleBit. Continue reading 12-year-old gets €100,000 Google bill after confusing AdWords and AdSense
Either we all need naps, or security has to be made simpler for users, because many of us are exhausted by alert fatigue. Continue reading ‘Security fatigue’ leading computer users to more or less just give up
A 33-year-old Cardiff man has been charged with training Islamic State terrorists on how to use encryption programs and with hiding a computer program on a USB drive disguised as a cufflink. Continue reading Islamic State suspect charged with hiding terrorist data in cufflink
The World Anti-Doping Agency says that not all of the leaked data accurately reflects what it has in its own records. Continue reading Hacked Olympians’ doping docs may have been doctored post-theft
The adult movie was streamed on the big screen in Jakarta for 5 minutes before the power was cut. Continue reading Billboard hacker faces 12 years in jail for broadcasting porn
They came away empty-handed, thanks to Open Whisper System’s barebones logs on customers. Continue reading Feds secretly subpoenaed encrypted chat app Signal