Collaborate Disseminate
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Hakan Ayik, an infamous drug trafficker who also popularized the use of certain brands of encrypted phones around the world, was arrested during a series of dramatic raids in Turkey last week. At one … Continue reading ‘Encryption King’ Arrested In Turkey
Slashdot readers schwit1 and Another Random Kiwi share the breaking news that FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been found guilty of fraud. From the Associated Press: FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s spectacular rise and fall in the cryptocurrency indus… Continue reading FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Found Guilty of Fraud
Lending new meaning to the phrase ‘cat burglar’, a single feline hair left at a crime scene can be traced back to an individual animal through a new method that can highlight a unique, rare genetic ‘fingerprint’.Continue ReadingCategory: ScienceTags: U… Continue reading New DNA tech uses a single cat hair to hone in on crime suspects
Thomas Claburn reports via The Register: For a period of two years between September 2019 and September 2021, two Americans and two Russians allegedly compromised the taxi dispatch system at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York to sell cab… Continue reading Two Russian Nationals Charged For Hacking Taxi System At JFK Airport
wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: In a surprising development on Monday that is spooking the cybersecurity community, the SEC filed charges against SolarWinds and its Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Timothy G. Brown, alleging tha… Continue reading SEC Charges SolarWinds CISO With Fraud and Cybersecurity Failures
The SF Standard reports that a San Francisco man whose car was stolen in the middle of the night “managed to track down the vehicle using his car insurance app and retrieve the stolen vehicle the following morning within half an hour of noticing it was… Continue reading How a Cellphone App Helped a California Man Retrieve His Stolen Car
“Illegal dumping is way too common, and often leads to no consequences,” writes Slashdot reader Tony Isaac. “In some urban neighborhoods, people dump entire truckloads of waste in ditches along the streets. Maybe authorities have found a way to make a … Continue reading Barcode Leads To Arrest of Texas Litterbug Behind 200 Pounds of Dumped Trash
Breached web sites distribute malware to visitors by claiming they need to update their browser. But one group of attackers “have developed an ingenious way of keeping their malware from being taken down by security experts or law enforcement,” reports… Continue reading Scammers Try Hosting Their Malware on a Binance Network
Acting on information from Microsoft and Amazon, India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has raided alleged fake tech support operators and other tech-related crims across the country. From a report: The Bureau shared news of a Thursday operation… Continue reading Indian Authorities Raid Fake Tech Support Rings After Tipoff From Amazon and Microsoft
Amir Golestan, the 40-year-old CEO of the Charleston, S.C. based technology company Micfo, has been sentenced to five years in prison for wire fraud. From a report: Golestan’s sentencing comes nearly two years after he pleaded guilty to using an elabor… Continue reading Tech CEO Sentenced To 5 Years in IP Address Scheme