Criminal Enterprise

Cybersecurity Vendor Extortion

via Kate Fazzini, writing at CNBC, comes a tale** of sweaty desperation, criminal extortion and the appalling dearth of morality…

2 years ago

Gangster of Digitals

via Jon Brodkin, writing at Ars Technica, in which, the Good Mr. Brodkin details the United Kingdom's House of Commons…

2 years ago

The Forking

To be specific, the forking of the Ethereum blockchain has resulted in the theft of nearly $500,000 USD.

2 years ago

Facebookery: Criminal Enterprise At Work

Simply superb reportage by the inimitable Dan Goodin writing at Ars Technica, and focusing, as it were, on the nearly…

2 years ago

Facebook+CambridgeAnalytica = Facebookery At It’s Finest

via Graham Cluely's timely security blog, comes the story of Carole Cadwalladr whom, in her day job, is famous for…

2 years ago

BGP Management SNAFU Culprit in Amazon Attack?

BGP Related Issues, Along With Malicious Redirection Predicated On Fraudulent Routes To Blame via Dan Goodin's typically superlative prose, at…

3 years ago

The $1,400,000,000 Windfall

via the eponymous Brian Krebs, publishing his perfectly targeted prose at Krebs on Security, comes word of the amount (estimated…

3 years ago

Synthetics

via Peter Rudegeair and AnnaMaria Andriotis - writing at The Wall Street Journal - comes a good example of crime…

3 years ago

Ad-Network Concealing Monero Mining Software In…. Ads!

Whew... I thought it was late-stage Meltdown on my Intel i7 Mac evidenced by the recent reoccurring & frenzied beach-ball-from-hell...…

3 years ago