June 12, 2023

History revisited: US DOJ unseals Mt. Gox cybercrime charges

Though the mills of the Law grind slowly/Yet they grind exceeding small/Though with patience they stand waiting/With exactness grind they all...

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November 08, 2022

Silk Road drugs market hacker pleads guilty, faces 20 years inside

Jurisprudence isn't like arithmetic... two negatives never make a positive!

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July 04, 2022

Canadian cybercriminal pleads guilty to “NetWalker” attacks in US

Bust in Canada, now bust in the USA as well.

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February 17, 2022

S3 Ep70: Bitcoin, billing blunders, and 0-day after 0-day after 0-day [Podcast + Transcript]

Latest episode - listen and learn!

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February 09, 2022

Self-styled “Crocodile of Wall Street” arrested with husband over Bitcoin megaheist

The cops say they've recovered 80% of a $72 million cryptocoin heist... but the recovered funds alone are now worth over $4 billion!

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December 22, 2021

Plundered bitcoins recovered by FBI – all 3,879-and-one-sixth of them!

Phew! An audacious crime... that didn't work out.

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June 09, 2021

How could the FBI recover BTC from Colonial’s ransomware payment?

But Bitcoins are anonymous! However could they get refunded?

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February 22, 2021

Nvidia announces official “anti-cryptomining” software drivers

"It's a DoS, Jim, but not as we know it."

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August 13, 2020

Tor and anonymous browsing – just how safe is it?

How to stay safe when you're using Tor, even if the network is littered with rogues.

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