Collaborate Disseminate
A Vancouver man received a federal prison sentence for his involvement in developing several distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnets. On June 25, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Alaska announced that Chief U.S. District Judge … Continue reading Vancouver Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Developing DDoS Botnets
Three former government officials in Ghana have been sentenced to jail for purchasing spyware products from Israeli software surveillance company NSO Group. The country’s former national security coordinator, Salifu Osman, and director-general of the country’s telecommunications authority, William Tetteh Tevie, were sentenced to five years in prison, according to Ghana Business News and other local news outlets. A former board chairman of the telecommunications authority, Eugene Baffoe-Bonnie, was sentenced to six years because he allegedly made $200,000 from the deal, according to Graphic Online. The case, which has been in the country’s high court since 2017, hinged on the argument that officials had caused significant financial loss in the country due to their $4 million purchase of NSO Group’s signature Pegasus spyware. The National Communications Authority (NCA) allegedly bought the surveillance product through a reseller in order to track suspected terrorism, according to Graphic Online, which attended the court session Tuesday. It […]
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A former U.S. government contractor who pleaded guilty to leaking a classified intelligence report on Russian government interference is asking a federal judge to allow her to serve the remainder of her prison sentence at home over concerns about contracting COVID-19. Reality Leigh Winner told a Georgia court April 10 she suffers from a respiratory illness and bulimia nervosa, sicknesses that she said could make her especially vulnerable to contracting the coronavirus behind bars. In August 2018, a court sentenced Winner to five years and three months in prison, at the time the largest sentence ever for disclosing national security secrets to the media. Now, her attorney argues that COVID-19, which is spreading through U.S. prisons, presents an “extraordinary and compelling” reason to release Winner to home confinement. “A prison inmate like Reality cannot ‘shelter in place’ and avoid contact with others,” wrote defense attorney Joe Whitley in the new […]
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By Sudais Asif
The company that owns the database claim that since these are incarcerated individuals, their rights differ substantially from the free lot in terms of privacy. A new data breach has taken place involving the information of inmates this … Continue reading Jailcore database leaks PII of inmates & correctional officers across US
A web-mapping project came across detainees’ prescriptions and other PII that could be used by identity thieves to victimize prisoners. Continue reading Data about inmates and jail staff spilled by leaky prison app
A completely-avoidable data leak has exposed prescription records, mugshots, and other sensitive information related to an unknown number of prison inmates.
Continue reading Prison inmates’ sensitive data left exposed on leaky cloud bucket
He was supposed to be serving a 24-year sentence in the “maximum security” prison, not continuing the fraud… and going to parties. Continue reading Convicted Nigerian fraudster keeps a-fraudin’ from behind bars
A convicted Nigerian fraudster earned more than $1 million from a scam that he executed while serving a multi-year prison term. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) launched an investigation into how Hope Olusegun Aroke had pulled off th… Continue reading Nigerian Fraudster Pulled Off $1M Scam While Serving Prison Term
Three Romanian individuals have received jail time for perpetuating a multi-million dollar phishing scheme in the United States. On 24 July, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia announced that Teodor Laurentiu Costea, R… Continue reading Three Romanians Receive Jail Time for Perpetrating Phishing Scheme
He admitted to taking Steam, EA Origin and Sony Online Entertainment offline in 2013 and 2014, causing at least $95,000 in damages. Continue reading ‘DerpTroll’ Faces 10 Years in Prison for DDoSing Gaming Sites as a Teen