Collaborate Disseminate
Use of the kid-addicting, video-sharing app is exploding during lockdown, triggering yet another inquiry into how safe it is for young ones. Continue reading TikTok’s handling of child privacy gets another watchdog’s attention
Dutch law enforcement has shut down 15 DDoS-for-hire services that were used to run cyberattacks aimed at knocking websites and networks offline. Although they did not reveal the names of the DDoS-for-hire booters that they stopped, Police in The Netherlands were able to arrest a 19-year-old man from The Netherlands, who is suspected of orchestrating a DDoS attack against two websites that provide information on the coronavirus. The affected websites, MijnOverheid.nl and Overheid.nl, were unavailable for several hours on March 19 after being bombarded with traffic, according to the Dutch police. “We want to protect people and companies and make it increasingly difficult for cyber criminals to carry out a DDoS attack,” the head of the cyber crime team of the Central Netherlands police, Jeroen Niessen, said in a statement on the takedown. Dutch citizens may have found the interruptions to Overhead.nl particularly exasperating because the site is used as a “digital letterbox” […]
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The North Sea in a winter storm is a spectacular sight, one of foam-crested waves and squalls driven on the gale. It’s not a place to spend a lot of time if you are a land-lubber, so to cross it twice in a few weeks must mean there is something …read more
The University of Maastricht in Holland has ended up paying a $220,000 ransom to a group of Russian hackers after an unwary employee fell for a phishing scam. The university was attacked with ransomware on Christmas Eve, 2019, a month after the employe… Continue reading Dutch university pays $220,000 ransom to infamous Russian cybercrime ring
The FBI has seized the domain for WeLeakInfo.com, a site that sold breached data records, after a multinational effort by law enforcement. Continue reading FBI seizes credentials-for-sale site WeLeakInfo.com
Former Dutch city council member Mitchel van der K invaded hundreds of iCloud accounts “frequently and repeatedly”. Continue reading iCloud-hacking politician to be sentenced on Christmas eve
The Dutch organisation eth0 has run a series of informal small camps over the years, never with an attendance too far into three figures, and without pre-planned events or entertainment. What happens is at the instigation of the attendees, and the result is a weekend of much closer socialising and …read more
Continue reading Eth0 Autumn 2019: Tiny Camp, Creative Badge
In spite of prostitution being legal in the Netherlands, this could lead to the same type of blackmail attempts/suicide from Ashley Madison. Continue reading Hacker wants $300 for 250,000 records stolen from sex worker site
Police overcame not only digital defenses of the “bulletproof” provider CyberBunker but also barbed wire fences and surveillance cams. Continue reading Darknet hosting provider in underground NATO bunker busted
“… these men came here – British and our Allies, and Americans – to storm these beaches for one purpose only, not to gain anything for ourselves, not to fulfill any ambitions that America had for conquest, but just to preserve … Continue reading D-D, June 6, 1944, 75 Years On