Collaborate Disseminate
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Axios: Locking up merchandise at drugstores and discount retailers hasn’t curbed retail theft but is driving frustrated consumers to shop online more, retail experts tell Axios. Retail crime is eati… Continue reading Locking Up Items To Deter Shoplifting Is Pushing Shoppers Online
“Zelle payments can’t be reversed once they’re sent,” notes the Los Angeles Times — which could be why they’re popular with scammers. “You can’t simply stop the payment (like a check) or dispute it (like a credit card).
Now, the federal regulat… Continue reading Are Banks Doing Enough to Protect Customers from Zelle Scams? US Launches Federal Probe
“A lawsuit has accused a Florida data broker of carelessly failing to secure billions of records of people’s private information,” reports the Register, “which was subsequently stolen from the biz and sold on an online criminal marketplace.”
Californi… Continue reading Cyber-Heist of 2.9 Billion Personal Records Leads to Class Action Lawsuit
“CrowdStrike has continued doing what gave it such an expansive footprint in the first place,” writes CSO Online — “detecting cyber threats and protecting its clients from them.”
They interviewed Adam Meyers, CrowdStrike’s SVP of counter advers… Continue reading North Korean Group Infiltrated 100-Plus Firms with Imposter IT Pros
An anonymous reader shared this report from PC World:
According to a tweet sent out by the Los Angeles Police Department’s Wilshire division (spotted by Tom’s Hardware), a small band of burglars is using Wi-Fi jamming devices to nullify wireless secur… Continue reading Burglars are Jamming Wi-FI Security Cameras
Law enforcement officials have identified the criminal behind “more than 20 bomb or shooting threats to schools and other places,” reports CNN.
It was an 11-year-old boy:
Investigators tracked the calls to a home in Henrico County, Virginia, just … Continue reading 29 Felony Charges Filed Over ‘Swat’ Calls Made By an 11-Year-Old
A ransomware attack has taken down the computer system of America’s largest trial court, reports the Associated Press:
The cybersecurity attack began early Friday and is not believed to be related to the faulty CrowdStrike software update that has dis… Continue reading Ransomware Attack Takes Down Computer System for America’s Largest Trial Court
Slashdot covered Barrett Brown back in 2011 and 2012. The New York Times calls him “an activist associated with the hacker group Anonymous, and a political prisoner recently denied asylum in Britain, all of which sounds a bit dreary until we hear tell … Continue reading Former Anonymous Spokesperson’s Memoir Called ‘Deranged, Hyperbolic, and True’
This is pretty horrific:
…a group of men behind a violent crime spree designed to compel victims to hand over access to their cryptocurrency savings. That announcement and the criminal complaint laying out charges against St. Felix focused largely on a single theft of cryptocurrency from an elderly North Carolina couple, whose home St. Felix and one of his accomplices broke into before physically assaulting the two victims—both in their seventies—and forcing them to transfer more than $150,000 in Bitcoin and Ether to the thieves’ crypto wallets…
Continue reading Criminal Gang Physically Assaulting People for Their Cryptocurrency
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: As deep-pocketed companies like Amazon, Google and Walmart invest in and experiment with drone delivery, a phenomenon reflective of this modern era has emerged. Drones, carrying snacks and other sund… Continue reading What Happens If You Shoot Down a Delivery Drone?