June 26, 2023

UK hacker busted in Spain gets 5 years over Twitter hack and more

Not just that infamous Twitter hack, but SIM-swapping, stalking and swatting too...

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June 29, 2023

S3 Ep141: What was Steve Jobs’s first job?

Latest episode - listen now! (Full transcript inside.)

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July 20, 2022

OODA: X-Ops Takes On Burgeoning SQL Server Attacks

How do the pieces of Sophos X-Ops fit together? A combined effort makes tidy work of a threat actor’s big play

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January 27, 2020

Instagram CEO’s homes were targetted by SWATters

Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri's houses were surrounded by SWAT teams after hoax phone calls claimed hostages were being held there.

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June 29, 2020

Satori IoT botnet author sentenced to 13 months in prison

Kenneth Schuchman, the creator of the massive Satori botnet of enslaved devices, will be spending 13 months behind bars.

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May 08, 2020

More crypto-stealing Chrome extensions swatted by Google

Google deleted more malicious extensions from the Chrome Web Store after they were found to be phishing cryptocurrency users.

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May 11, 2020

Monday review – the hot 16 stories of the week

It's weekly roundup time!

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September 18, 2019

Teenage gamer jailed over lethal swatting

Casey Viner got into a spat over a $1.50 wager in a Call of Duty World War II game that led to the fatal shooting of an innocent man.

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April 01, 2020

Bill Gates’s YouTube ‘Bitcoin giveaway’ is a big fat scam

And no, Microsoft said, none of our verified accounts have been hijacked, vehemently denying early reports.

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