Collaborate Disseminate
“A federal grand jury has indicted an embattled Alzheimer’s researcher for allegedly falsifying data to fraudulently obtain $16 million in federal research funding from the National Institutes of Health for the development of a controversial Alzheimer’… Continue reading Alzheimer’s Scientist Indicted For Allegedly Falsifying Data In $16 Million Scheme
According to Interpol, nearly 4,000 people around the world have been arrested for a variety of online crimes, with $257 million in assets seized. The Record reports: The operation, dubbed First Light, was conducted by police officers from 61 countries… Continue reading Nearly 4,000 Arrested In Global Police Crackdown On Online Scam Networks
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: An online gaming dispute made its way to the real world when a New Jersey man flew to Florida to attack another player with a hammer, authorities said. Edward Kang, 20, is charged with atte… Continue reading Man Flies To Florida To Attack Another Player Over an Online Gaming Dispute
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has agreed to a plea deal with the U.S. Justice Department over his alleged role in one of the largest U.S. government breaches of classified material. As a result, he will avoid imprisonment in the United States. CNN r… Continue reading Julian Assange Reaches Plea Deal With US, Allowing Him To Go Free
Firstly, this is purely hypothetical and has not happened to me.
So let’s say that a friend wrote me down a URL he said I should visit, so I type the URL into my address bar but accidentally type a ‘ instead of a ” in a GET parameter, and … Continue reading Is accidental “hacking” illegal? [closed]
Lin Qi, chairman of China’s Yoozoo Group and executive producer on Netflix’s “The Three-Body Problem,” is currently hospitalized in Shanghai following a suspected deliberate poisoning by colleague Xu Yao, who has been detained by police. Despite intern… Continue reading Chinese Producer of Netflix’s ‘The Three-Body Problem’ Is Poisoned in Suspected Murder Attempt
The Ukraine cyber police, supported by information from the Dutch police, arrested a 28-year-old Russian man in Kyiv for aiding Conti and LockBit ransomware operations by making their malware undetectable and conducting at least one attack himself. He … Continue reading Police Arrest Conti and LockBit Ransomware Crypter Specialist
British police have arrested two individuals involved in an SMS-based phishing campaign using a unique device police described as a “homemade mobile antenna,” “an illegitimate telephone mast,” and a “text message blaster.” This first-of-its-kind device… Continue reading British Duo Arrested For SMS Phishing Via Homemade Cell Tower
Wired visits Chula Vista, California (population: 275,487) — where since 2018 drones have been dispatched by police “teleoperators” monitoring 911 calls. (“Noise complaints, car accidents, overdoses, domestic disputes…”) After nearly 20,000 dro… Continue reading Should Police Departments Use Drones?
“Researchers observed a new Linux variant of the TargetCompany ransomware family that targets VMware ESXi environments,” reports BleepingComputer:
In a report Wednesday, cybersecurity company Trend Micro says that the new Linux variant for TargetCompa… Continue reading New Linux Version of Ransomware Targets VMware ESXi