Collaborate Disseminate
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: A California teenager prosecutors say is responsible for hundreds of swatting attacks around the United States was exposed after law enforcement pieced together a digital trail left on some of the interne… Continue reading YouTube, Discord, and Lord of the Rings Led Police To a Teen Accused of a US Swatting Spree
Joshua Schulte, a former CIA software engineer, was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Thursday for carrying out the largest theft of classified information in the agency’s history and possessing child pornography. The Guardian reports: The 40-year sen… Continue reading Ex-CIA Software Engineer Sentenced To 40 Years For Giving Secrets To WikiLeaks
From the “No good deed goes unpunished” files, this week came news of a German programmer who probably wishes he had selected better clients. According to Heise Online (English translation), …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: January 28, 2024
A 61-year-old man alleges that a facial recognition algorithm used a mugshot from the 1980s to ID him in a crime he didn’t commit. Continue reading Man Jailed, Raped, and Beaten After False Facial Recognition Match, $10M Lawsuit Alleges
Thomas Claburn reports via The Register: A security researcher in Germany has been fined $3,300 for finding and reporting an e-commerce database vulnerability that was exposing almost 700,000 customer records. Back in June 2021, according to our pals a… Continue reading IT Consultant Fined For Daring To Expose Shoddy Security
One man living in Virginia oversaw “the laundering of some $7 million in fraudulently obtained gift cards” from Walmart in an international operation which over five years scammed hundreds of victims into sending the numbers over the phone, reports a n… Continue reading Walmart’s Financial Services ‘Became a Fraud Magnet’, Says ProPublica
Organized crime is mining sand from rivers and coasts to feed demand worldwide, ruining ecosystems and communities. Can it be stopped? Scientific American reports: Very few people are looking closely at the illegal sand system or calling for changes, h… Continue reading Crime Rings Are Trafficking in an Unlikely Treasure: Sand
“The famed and mysterious disappearance of D.B. Cooper has puzzled investigators for over half a century,” writes a Seattle TV station.
Now new evidence is coming to light in the supposed “skyjacking,” after a microscopic piece of metal found on D. B. … Continue reading A Microscopic Metal Flake Could Finally Reveal DB Cooper’s Identity
A cartel in the embattled central Mexico state of Michoacan set up its own makeshift internet antennas and told locals they had to pay to use its wifi service or they would be killed, according to prosecutors. New submitter awwshit shares a story: Dubb… Continue reading Mexican Cartel Provided Wi-Fi To Locals – With Threat of Death If They Didn’t Use It
There are tons of VPN service providers that allow VPN connections for some little amount like 5-15$ per month. Imagine a malicious person using some of these services to hide his cyber-criminal activities. Say, he hacked a website resulti… Continue reading how public vpn service providers avoid being liable for illegal activity of their customers [migrated]