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Details of Alan Turing’s Voice Encryption System
Really interesting piece of cryptographic history: In November 2023, a large cache of his wartime papers--nicknamed the "Bayley papers"--was auctioned in London for almost half a million U.S. dollars. The previously unknown cache contains many sheets in Turing's own handwriting, telling of his...
Two Scattered Spider Hackers Get 5.5 Years Each for £29 Million TfL Hack
Owen Flowers , 18, and Thalha Jubair , 20, were each sentenced to five and a half years at Woolwich Crown Court on Thursday, 16 July 2026, for the 2024 hack of Transport for London. The attack left 148 TfL systems inoperable and forced all 27,000 of the transport authority's employees into an...
Two Scattered Spider Members Sentenced to 5.6 Years Over TfL Cyberattack
Nearly two years after a cyberattack disrupted Transport for London’s TfL online services and exposed customer data, two…...
FastNetMon Launches Netomics, a Self-Hosted Routing Intelligence Platform
London, United Kingdom, 10th July 2026, CyberNewswire...
Scattered Spider Hackers Plead Guilty on Day 1 of Trial
Two men pleaded guilty in the United Kingdom this week to criminal charges stemming from an August 2024 cyberattack that crippled Transport for London , the entity responsible for the public transport network in the Greater London area. The duo were key members of a prolific cybercrime group know...
2 Scattered Spider-Linked Hackers Plead Guilty Over £39M TfL Cyberattack
Two teenagers face sentencing after admitting to a massive Scattered Spider cyberattack that hit Transport for London TfL and US healthcare networks...
CVE-2019-12578
A vulnerability in the London Trust Media Private Internet Access PIA VPN Client v82 for Linux could allow an authenticated, local attacker to run arbitrary code with elevated privileges. The openvpnlauncher.64 binary is setuid root. This binary executes /opt/pia/openvpn-64/openvpn, passing the...
CVE-2019-12573
A vulnerability in the London Trust Media Private Internet Access PIA VPN Client v82 for Linux and macOS could allow an authenticated, local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files. The openvpnlauncher binary is setuid root. This binary supports the --log option, which accepts a path as an argument...
CVE-2019-12577
A vulnerability in the London Trust Media Private Internet Access PIA VPN Client v82 for macOS could allow an authenticated, local attacker to run arbitrary code with elevated privileges. The macOS binary openvpnlauncher.64 is setuid root. This binary creates /tmp/piaupscript.sh when executed...
One stolen iPhone uncovered a network smuggling thousands of devices to China
If you think Apple's 'Find My' feature was just there to help you locate your phone when it slipped down the side of the couch, think again. It turns out this service also helps law enforcement capture criminals. The original "Find My iPhone" was introduced in 2010 as a feature on the iPhone. It...
EUVD-2019-4165
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EUVD-2019-4171
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EUVD-2019-4170
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London Court Convicts Chinese Mastermind Behind £5bn Crypto Seizure
Zhimin Qian, the 'Bitcoin Queen,' pleads guilty in the UK after police seized over £5 billion in stolen crypto, the world's largest crypto seizure. Details on the Ponzi scam and fight for the funds...
U.K. Police Just Seized £5.5 Billion in Bitcoin — The World’s Largest Crypto Bust
A Chinese national has been convicted for her role in a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme after law enforcement authorities in the U.K. confiscated £5.5 billion about $7.39 billion during a raid of her home in London. The cryptocurrency seizure, amounting to 61,000 Bitcoin, is believed to be the...
Feds Tie ‘Scattered Spider’ Duo to $115M in Ransoms
U.S. prosecutors last week levied criminal hacking charges against 19-year-old U.K. national Thalha Jubair for allegedly being a core member of Scattered Spider , a prolific cybercrime group blamed for extorting at least $115 million in ransom payments from victims. The charges came as Jubair and...
U.K. Arrests Two Teen Scattered Spider Hackers Linked to August 2024 TfL Cyber Attack
Law enforcement authorities in the U.K. have arrested two teen members of the Scattered Spider hacking group in connection with their alleged participation in an August 2024 cyber attack targeting Transport for London TfL, the city's public transportation agency. Thalha Jubair aka EarthtoStar,...
Two UK Teenagers Charged Over TfL Hack Linked to Scattered Spider
Two UK teens have been charged in connection with the TfL hack, as investigators link them to Scattered Spider cyberattacks and data breaches...