Collaborate Disseminate
By Deeba Ahmed
The couple used a bubble gum package and peanut butter sandwich to hide SD card with sensitive data and sell it to undercover FBI agents.
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Gift card fraud may sound like small beer against ransomware – but it’s personal, it hurts, and it’s still a multi-million dollar problem. Continue reading Gift card fraud: four suspects hit with money laundering charges
U.S. Justice Department officials came out in strong support of legislation requiring companies to report ransomware attacks and other severe data breaches to federal authorities. “Without prompt reporting, investigative opportunities are lost, our ability to assist other victims facing the same attacks is degraded and the government and Congress does not have a full picture of the threat facing American companies,” said Richard Downing, deputy assistant attorney general for the criminal division of the U.S. Department of Justice, at a Senate Judiciary hearing on ransomware Tuesday. The sentiment was shared by Bryan Vorndran, assistant director of the cyber division at the FBI. “We need a federal cyber incident reporting standard for breaches that pose significant risks because inconsistent volunteer reporting is simply not enough,” said Vorndran. Current versions of reporting legislation circulating on Capitol Hill put the Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity agency at the center of reporting. Eric Goldstein, […]
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O, what a tangled web we weave/When first we practise to deceive! Continue reading US court gets UK Twitter hack suspect arrested in Spain
Safe at home, apparently, but not so safe overseas. Continue reading Colombian police arrest Gozi malware suspect after 8 years at large
Looking for contract programming work? You might be surprised at what’s on offer out there. Continue reading Latvian woman charged with writing malware for the Trickbot Group
Passwords – don’t just pay them lip service. Continue reading How to hack into 5500 accounts… just using “credential stuffing”
Human psychology is complex. It’s a dynamic and sometimes contradictory system. Compounding this problem is the rapid progress of technology and social media, toppling boundaries like never before. In this complicated and fast-evolving setting, h… Continue reading How prepared is the intelligence community to tackle possible threats?
Today, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney, announced the unsealing of a seven count indictment charging John David McAfee, founder of McAfee, and Jimmy Gale Watson, an executive advisor to McAfee, with… Continue reading John McAfee Indicted for ICO Manipulation, Securities Fraud
Trio alleged to have been at it for more than a decade, and to have made off with well over a billion dollars. Continue reading US names three North Koreans in laundry list of cybercrime charges