Toyota Employee Allegedly Hacked, Stole Confidential Information

Investigation is now underway into whether a computer programmer allegedly stole proprietary information from the automaker Toyota and “sabotaged” the company’s supplier computer network after being terminated last week. According to a complaint filed late last week .PDF in the U.S. District Cour...

FTC Sues Wyndham Over Breaches Linked to $10m In Fraud

UPDATE: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has fined Wyndham Hotels for a string of data breaches that resulted in information on hundreds of thousands of customers being lost to cyber criminals. An FTC complaint, filed on June 26, 2012, asks for “permanent injunctive relief” against Wyndham for...

New Jersey mayor arrested for hacking recall website

New Jersey mayor arrested for hacking recall website The FBI last week arrested the mayor of the northern New Jersey town of West New York, together with his son, on charges of hacking into a website and a related email account that called for the mayor's recall. Felix Roque, 55, the mayor of Wes...

FBI track Anonymous hacker using his girlfriend's boobs

FBI track Anonymous hacker using his girlfriend's boobs The FBI swooped on Higinio O Ochoa III after he posted the snap, which included a gloating message to his online victims.He took the picture on his iPhone and posted it on Twitter without realising it contained GPS data pointing directly to...

How The Free Market Fails Privacy-Conscious Consumers

Editor’s Note: This is the first of a two-part podcast with security researcher Chris Soghoian. It’s a truism that the pace of technological change outstrips society’s ability to grasp the impact of that change. For the most part, the consequences of this are benign and the remedies...

Fortune Favors the Bold? Man Steals Microsoft Founder's Identity, Credit Card

When one Pennsylvanian man couldn’t foot his bills, he opted to steal the identity of someone that could – one of the world’s richest men, Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Paul Allen. An AWOL solider from Pittsburgh swiped Allen’s Citibank credit card account information earlier this year to...

Japan orders Google to remove auto-complete function over privacy complaint

Japan orders Google to remove auto-complete function over privacy complaint Google has been ordered to disable part of its autocomplete function in Japan after complaints it violates privacy. According to a report by The Japan Times, the court was acting on a petition accusing Google's autocomple...

Microsoft Adds Kelihos Botnet Operator To Civil Complaint

A Russian man was added to the list of defendants in a civil complaint filed by Microsoft at the operators of the Kelihos botnet. In an amended complaint filed in U.S. District Court on Monday, the company said that Andrey Sabelnikov controlled Kelihos using 21 Internet domains bought from a...

Facebook Fixes Complaint Feature Abused To Bypass Photo Privacy, Zuckerberg Among Victims

Facebook has fixed a critical flaw in a user feedback feature that allowed any user to access private photos posted in other users accounts. Before it was fixed, the flaw was used to hack the account of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and post photos online. The social network responded quickly afte...

Dropbox potential security flaw revealed, could be exploited by hackers !

It seems that information which Dropbox, the popular web-based file-sharing site/service, issued in response to a US Federal Trade Commission complaint, has revealed a potential security flaw that, according to Ray Bryant, CEO of Idappcom, could be exploited by hackers. According to Bryant, after...

IC3: Internet Crime Up in 2010

Internet crime is on the rise again according to a report recently released by The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3. The organization said last week that it received the second-highest number of complaints in its decade long history in 2010. Released on February 24, the 2010 Internet Crime...

Indishell.in Locked By Domain Provider on complaint of Government Authorities !

Indishell.in Locked By Domain Provider on complaint of Government Authorities ! Email Send Via Domain Provider to Indishell Owner : On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:44 PM, [email protected] [email protected] wrote: Hello, Dear Customer . We have Received a Complaint From The Government...

Privacy Advocate Asks FTC to Force Google to Change Privacy Practices

Chris Soghoian, a well-known privacy advocate and former Federal Trade Commission technologist, has filed a complaint with the FTC asking that the commission force Google to amend its privacy policy to reflect what he says are shortcomings in the company’s protection of data related to consumers’...

Rogue Antivirus Scams Making Moola

The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center said rogue antivirus writers have raked in $150 million from users. Read the full article. Computerworld...

Online crime complaints hit record high in 2008

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 says complaints of online crime hit a record high in 2008, driven mostly by non-delivery of goods and service and those pesky 419 Nigerian e-mail scams. Accordign to a new report PDF from ic3.gov, the center received a a total of 275,284 complaints, a...

why i love xs4all + mediaplayer thingie

Why i love xs4all rant you'll probably wanna skip this but i need to get this out of my system: a few weeks back i was unpleasantly suprised by the fact that my internet wasn't working the support desk employee after making me reset my modem a dozen times and tripple checking my settings finaly...