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Teenage members of Lapsus$ ransomware gang convicted

August 25, 2023 admin breach, Business, compromise, convicted, Crime, hack, hacked, lapsus$, leak, ransomware

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A wave of video game developer compromises has come to a court-based conclusion.

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Company finds lost SSD—and confidential data—for sale on eBay

June 27, 2023 admin Audit, Business, CCTV, Crime, data, equipment, hard drive, id, inventory, pass, peripherals, Security, steal, theft, workplace

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Major software company SAP is putting the pieces of a story involving missing SSD disks back together.

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Sextortion “assistance” scammers con victims further

April 13, 2023 admin assistance, Crime, criminal, extortion, FBI, help, images, news, nude, nudes, payment, Photo, Photographs, profit, SCAM, sextortion, video

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We take a look at an FBI warning regarding for-profit entities making money from people targeted by sextortion attacks.

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Data Access Agreement offers a new path for UK – US data requests

October 6, 2022 admin Crime, criminal, daa, data, data access agreement, news, request, share, Telecommunications, uk, US

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We take a look at a possibly controversial new way for two governments to make direct data requests in cases of law enforcement.

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A Wellness Blogger Who Lied About Having Cancer Has Been Fined $322,000

September 28, 2017 admin Blogging, courts, Crime, Health, internet, medicine, Nutrition, pseudoscience, wellness

Credit to Author: Kaleigh Rogers| Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 14:54:37 +0000

Belle Gibson admitted in 2015 that it was all bull.

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Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Pleads Not Guilty to Creating Banking Malware

August 14, 2017 admin Crime, malwaretech, Marcus Hutchins, ransomware, Security, WannaCry

Credit to Author: Lorenzo Franceshi-Bicchierai| Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 15:06:28 +0000

Marcus Hutchins, AKA MalwareTech, was shockingly arrested at the airport after Def Con.

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The FBI Booby-Trapped a Video to Catch a Suspected Tor Sextortionist

August 8, 2017 admin Crime, FBI, Tor

Credit to Author: Joseph Cox| Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2017 13:24:10 +0000

The FBI showed it uses more targeted methods to potentially deanonymize Tor users.

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That Orange Is the New Black Leak Was Never Going to Pay Off

May 1, 2017 admin bittorrent, Crime, hacks, NETFLIX, Orange is The New Black, Security

Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Mon, 01 May 2017 18:36:19 +0000

That Orange Is the New Black Leak Was Never Going to Pay Off

Putting an unreleased series on the Pirate Bay unless Netflix pays up? Good luck with that. The post That Orange Is the New Black Leak Was Never Going to Pay Off appeared first on WIRED.