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Payment card breaches were back in the news again this week as Forever 21 announced that it is investigating a point-of-sale breach (POS) at some of its stores, and several other organizations issued breach announcements related to stolen payment card … Continue reading Weekly Cyber Risk Roundup: More Payment Card Breaches and Dark Web Arrests
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Bearded man entangled in dark web drugs market bust, Google researches how to make browser security warnings less confusing, and “bedroom entertainment systems” (ahem) probed for security holes.
All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of t… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #046: Good beard bad beard
By now you might be aware of the took down of two of the largest online dark websites—AlphaBay and Hansa—in what’s being called the largest-ever international operation against the dark web’s black market conducted by the FBI, DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) and Dutch National Police.
But the interesting aspect of the takedown was that the federal authorities shut down AlphaBay, but took
Continue reading Dark Web Users Suspect “Dream Market” Has Also Been Backdoored by Feds
For criminal entrepreneurs, the fall of the dark web’s most profitable black market raises questions about which service will be the next illegal-marketplace titan or the next one whose operator lands behind bars. After three years of hosting a multimillion-dollar illegal business, AlphaBay ceased to exist earlier this month in the face of an international law enforcement operation. Alexandre Cazes, a Canadian citizen who allegedly was one of the site’s operators, was found hanged in his Thailand prison cell Wednesday as extradition to the United States was being prepared. This comes just a few months after Ross Ulbricht, who was convicted and sentenced to life for running the dark web marketplace Silk Road, lost his appeal in a New York courtroom. AlphaBay sold a wide range of illicit goods including drugs, stolen data and hacking tools. At one point, AlphaBay operated as the criminal answer to Amazon.com’s hugely successful hold on the legal […]
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