German Engineer Arrested In Card Skimming Plot

A German engineer was sentenced to three years in jail on Friday after he was found transporting card skimming technology into Britain according to a report from Reuters UK. Thomas Beeckmann, 26, was stopped at London’s Victoria Coach Station in June with 17 electronic scamming circuits. The...

Expert: Eight Years Later, 'Snowshoe Spam' Suggests CAN SPAM Not Working

BARCELONA — If you thought the CAN SPAM Act of 2003 nailed the coffin closed on the legality of spamming in the U.S., you’d be wrong. In fact, CAN SPAM compliant spam e-mail – sometimes referred to as ‘Snowshoe Spam’ is a growing source of nuisance e-mail messages hitting inboxes in the U.S. and...

Senate Considers Using Mob Law To Go After Cybercriminals

Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee listened as one of the nation’s top cyber cops asked for expanded powers to go after cybercriminal groups, including the use of statutes written to combat the mafia. But confronted with the prospect of a major face lift for the U.S.’s preeminent cyber...

Court grants bail to Anonymous and LulzSec suspects

Court grants bail to Anonymous and LulzSec suspects Four alleged UK hackers suspected of being linked to attacks by hacking groups Anonymous and Lulz Security LulzSec have been released on bail after a hearing at Westminster magistrates court on the condition that they did not use specific online...

Court grants bail to Anonymous and LulzSec suspects

Court grants bail to Anonymous and LulzSec suspects Four alleged UK hackers suspected of being linked to attacks by hacking groups Anonymous and Lulz Security LulzSec have been released on bail after a hearing at Westminster magistrates court on the condition that they did not use specific online...

Two Suspected Anonymous/LulzSec hackers arrested by British police

Two Suspected Anonymous/LulzSec hackers arrested by British police Officers from the Metropolitan Police Service's Central e-Crime Unit PCeU have today, 1 September, arrested two men for conspiring to commit offences under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. Two men, aged 20 and 24, have been arrested ...

Two Suspected Anonymous/LulzSec hackers arrested by British police

Two Suspected Anonymous/LulzSec hackers arrested by British police Officers from the Metropolitan Police Service's Central e-Crime Unit PCeU have today, 1 September, arrested two men for conspiring to commit offences under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. Two men, aged 20 and 24, have been arrested ...

UK Police Charge another alleged Anonymous member in Hacking Cases

UK Police Charge another alleged Anonymous member in Hacking Cases A student has been charged with involvement in cyber attacks by the hacking group Anonymous against companies that withdrew online payment services from WikiLeaks. Peter David Gibson, from Hartlepool, will appear before magistrate...

UK Police Charge another alleged Anonymous member in Hacking Cases

UK Police Charge another alleged Anonymous member in Hacking Cases A student has been charged with involvement in cyber attacks by the hacking group Anonymous against companies that withdrew online payment services from WikiLeaks. Peter David Gibson, from Hartlepool, will appear before magistrate...

History Sniffing Case Dismissed Because Defendant Fails to Quantify Losses

A federal court in New York has dismissed a case in which the plaintiff claimed that a third-party advertiser had violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act CFAA by sniffing her browser history and using flash cookies, ruling that the plaintiff didn’t prove that the actions were harmful enough...

25 Year old UK Student hacker penetrated Facebook‎

25 Year old UK Student hacker penetrated Facebook‎ A 25 year old Brit allegedly used "considerable technical expertise" to hack into Facebook's servers. The student, from York, faces five charges, including that he "made, adapted, supplied or offered to supply" a computer program to hack into a...

25 Year old UK Student hacker penetrated Facebook‎

25 Year old UK Student hacker penetrated Facebook‎ A 25 year old Brit allegedly used "considerable technical expertise" to hack into Facebook's servers. The student, from York, faces five charges, including that he "made, adapted, supplied or offered to supply" a computer program to hack into a...

Viruses and Vendors Can Put Healthcare Data At Risk

A recent article in Healthcare Security Info highlights that computer viruses can cause security breaches, that can then in turn compromise health care data and potentially violate the HIPAA and HITECH Act regulations. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston had to notify more than 2,000...

Indian Govt wants monitoring access for Twitter, Facebook,Skype and Google

Indian Govt wants monitoring access for Twitter, Facebook,Skype and Google India's authorities are already forcing Research In Motion to grant access to the encrypted email and instant messages of its BlackBerry users, and now the government is pressuring Google and Skype too. Doesn't the...

British police issue warning to Anonymous, Lulzsec and other internet hacktivists

British police issue warning to Anonymous , Lulzsec and other internet hacktivists The Metropolitan Police have taken the unusual step of using Twitter to send a message to anyone considering supporting internet attacks against companies and governments.A message posted on the Met Police's offici...

Accused LulzSec hacker Topiary released on bail

Accused LulzSec hacker Topiary released on bail Jake Davis, an 18-year-old from the Shetland Islands, was released on bail after being charged with five offences relating to computer attacks and break-ins by the LulzSec and Anonymous hacking groups. Davis was granted bail to stay with his mother ...

EFF Argues Forced Decryption Violates Fifth Amendment

Digital civil liberties organization, the Electric Frontier Foundation EFF, appealed to the U.S. District Court of Colorado arguing that encrypted personal data is covered by the Fifth Amendment’s protection against self incrimination. The group submitted a brief of Amicus Curaie .PDF last week o...

Veterans Affairs breaches

The Department of Veterans Affairs was hit on two separate occasions by breaches in 2006. 26.5 million Veterans and their families had their names, Social Security numbers and dates of birth lifted after a laptop was swiped from an employee’s home in May. The laptop was retrieved in August and tw...

UK Authorities Charge Suspected LulzSec Member for DDoS Attacks

A 19 year-old UK man was charged on Wednesday for the role he played in attacks on the UK’s Serious Organized Crime Agency SOCA as well as UK’s British Phonographic Industry BPI and International Federation of the Phonographic Industry IFPI, according to a statement released by the Metropolitan...

Congressmen, Witnesses Question Data Breach Bill's Specifics

In an initial hearing to discuss a proposed national data-breach notification bill on Wednesday, representatives and witnesses dissected the SAFE Data Act proposed by Rep. Mary Bono Mack and said that the legislation had a long way to go to be ready for prime time. The hearing, which is just the...