October 14, 2016

Doh! Government inadvertently reveals hacker’s private info

When you're prosecuting a hacker for exposing private information to the world, you really shouldn't do the same thing yourself!

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September 01, 2016

Mr. Robot season 2 episode 2.7init5.fve – the security review

Plenty of plot twists and turns in this week's Mr Robot episode, but what about the security concepts?

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August 17, 2016

VeraCrypt disk encryption team claims “emails intercepted”

Four emails have vanished without trace. Is it magic? A bug? Or are nation-states at work?

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June 17, 2016

Islamic State hacker admits to hacking, sharing US military PII

The Kosovan admitted that he knew the terrorists would use it to “hit them hard.”

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May 19, 2016

What are 150,000 stolen press releases worth? About 20 years in prison

What's a press release worth? Rather a lot if you steal them before they go public and help people trade on the secrets you've uncovered...

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April 22, 2016

The Facebook hacker who caught a Facebook hacker…

Facebook was the victim of both hacks, but is surprisingly relaxed about it.

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January 26, 2016

Hacker who sent heroin to Brian Krebs pleads guilty

Sergey Vovnenko copped a plea, pleading guilty to charges of aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

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December 01, 2015

Photos of kids and parents, chatlogs, audio files stolen in VTech breach

The hacker says the data he could get at made him "sick." It's easy to see why.

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July 17, 2015

Lauri Love rearrested, faces extradition to US on hacking charges

The DOJ's demand for extradition in a previous UK-US hacking case was overruled; they may not wish to be so easily thwarted this time.

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