Uber Spammer Alan Ralsky Back In The News
Ah so Mr Alan Ralsky one of the biggest spammers of all-time is back in the news after his indictment with 10 others for running a large scale spam operation intended to inflate stocks artificially....
View ArticleHacking Does Pay! US Law Let’s Hacker Keep Fraudulent Earnings
Ah I think it’s time for controversy on a Tuesday, what do you think about this case where a hacker got some info on a company about it’s soon to be plummeting share prices by breaking into their...
View ArticleThree Charged With Hacking Dave & Buster’s Chain
Another big heist in the US netting a whole lot of juicy information on credit and debit cards, over half a million USD lost in this case alone. There’s a whole lot of fraud going on.. Not bad for...
View ArticleDshocker AKA Aush0k Hacker Pleads Guilty to Computer Felonies
Another teen hacker in the news, this guy looks like he has some formidable skills though with the list of crimes he’s perpetrated. He’s pleaded guilty though, so he should get a reduced sentence and...
View ArticlePhishing Attacks Hits Twitter Users – Utilising Direct Messages
I personally received the following direct message on Twitter from someone I know quite well: hey! check out this funny blog about you… http://jannawalitax.blogspot.com/ It’s a link to a fake blogspot...
View ArticleTJX (T.J. Maxx and Marshall’s) Hacker Jailed For 30 Years
You should be familiar with the TJX case by now (TJX Largest Breach of Customer Data in U.S. History) and we’ve been following it here for a couple of years. We reported back in August last year that...
View ArticleTorpig Botnet Hijacking Reveals 70GB Of Stolen Data
We did mention Torpig in passing back in January 2008 when talking about the Mebroot rootkit which digs down deep into the Master Boot Record. It seems like Torpig has been pretty active since then...
View ArticleFormer Dark Market Admin Faces 10 Year Jail Sentence
You may remember a while back in 2008 it was uncovered (at least publically) that DarkMarket was actually an FBI Sting Operation. Insiders had apparently known since 2006 that one of the admins was...
View ArticleHigh Tech Ticket Scalpers Earn $25 Million Profits
Today’s news is that a company in the US has been using CAPTCHA breaking technology to run a very profitable ticket scalping operation. Reports state they netted a $25 Million USD profit over a 6 year...
View ArticleEuropean Banks Seeing New Wave Of ATM Skimming
ATM hacking and skimming were often in the news a few years back, but since the banks ramped up the security on ATM machines – including anti-skimming devices – ATM fraud activities seemed to drop off....
View Article
