Normally, when the government wants phone records from an organization, it notifies them in advance and they enter negotiations. However, that hasn’t happened in the case of the Associated Press.
The US Justice Department secretly subpoenaed the phone records of AP reporters and editors for a period ... [read more >>] Last week, US authorities charged 8 individuals believed to be involved in a scheme in which fraudsters withdrew a total of $45 million (€34 million) from ATMs all around the world. Prosecutors haven’t named the targeted companies. However, Times of India has learned that the companies targeted ... [read more >>] An incident at the recent PyCon Python developer conference has gotten way out of proportions, resulting in two people getting fired by their companies and distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks being launched against two websites.
It all started when two of the developers present at the conference s... [read more >>] It’s not news to anyone that’s been following the work of security expert and journalist Brian Krebs that his website is often targeted with distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks. However, a group of irritated cybercriminals have taken things even further.
On Wednesday, Krebs published a... [read more >>] Sports retailer Genesco, which operates over 2,400 stores in North America and Europe, has filed a lawsuit against Visa, blaming the company for the considerable penalties imposed on merchants and banks that suffer data breaches.
Genesco’s systems were hacked back in 2010. At the time, the company di... [read more >>] Making purchases from untrusted online stores is risky business these days. This is the lesson learned by 1,341 Natural Selection 2 players who had their keys deactivated on Steam after the game’s developer noticed they had been purchased with stolen credit cards.
The developer of Natural Selection 2... [read more >>] Sub-Lt. Jeffrey Paul Delisle, the Canadian navy officer accused of selling military secrets to Russia, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
According to The Washington Times, Delisle will stay in jail for 18 years and 5 months because of the time he has already served. In addition, the spy will also ... [read more >>] Self-proclaimed Anonymous spokesperson Barrett Brown has been charged with one count of concealment of evidence and one count of corrupting concealing evidence. This is the third series of charges brought against the 31-year-old activist.
Authorities say that, in March 2012, Brown concealed two laptops in ... [read more >>] On January 23, GitHub unveiled major improvements made to the code search engine. However, the new search infrastructure has turned out to be even more efficient than expected, revealing the private Secure Shell (SSH) keys of some repositories.
On Thursday, users began to notice that SSH keys could be easi... [read more >>] Unfortunately, there’s still a very thin line between security research and hacking. That’s the lesson learned by 20-year-old Ahmed Al-Khabaz, a computer science student at Dawson College in Montreal.
According to the National Post, Al-Khabaz identified a security hole in the Omnivox software &... [read more >>] |
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