KrebsOnSecurity Threatened with Defamation Lawsuit Over Fake Radaris CEO

On March 8, 2024, KrebsOnSecurity published a deep dive on the consumer data broker Radaris, showing how the original owners are two men in Massachusetts who operated multiple Russian language dating services and affiliate programs, in addition to a dizzying array of people-search websites. The...

1 in 3 Americans Suffered Severe Online Harassment in 2018

And roughly 80 percent of Americans say tech companies should do more to prevent it, according to a new survey from the Anti-Defamation League...

Abbott Addresses Life-Threatening Flaw in a Half-Million Pacemakers

About 350,000 implantable defilibrators are up for a firmware update, to address potentially life-threatening vulnerabilities. Abbott formerly St. Jude Medical has released another upgrade to the firmware installed on certain implantable cardioverter defibrillator ICD or cardiac resynchronization...

Anonymous Group Leaks Identities of 1000 KKK Members

The online hacktivist group Anonymous has followed through on its promise to disclose the identities of hundreds of Ku Klux Klan members. On Monday, Anonymous vowed to release the full info dump of about 1,000 alleged Ku Klux Klan members with a chosen date of 5th of this November. As promised,...

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...

Twitter, As secondary publisher could be sued for an illegal tweet

Twitter, As secondary publisher could be sued for an illegal tweet If a Twitter user posts an illegal tweet, they could get sued, but Twitter could be sued itself as a secondary publisher according to Zack Whittaker. Legal analysis site Out-Law published a very interesting, theoretical piece, whi...

Web of Trust (WOT) Wins in Court, Favors freedom of speech

Web of Trust WOT Wins in Court, Favors freedom of speech The world's leading safe surfing tool Web of Trust WOT has won the lawsuit filed against it in the United States. WOT was accused of defamation, violating rights, conspiracy and manipulating algorithms. The court of justice in Florida grant...

Site of AT&T-iPad hackers is hacked !!

Web site, a hacker group, whose members are accused of crimes committed after the hole in the exposed customers to AT & T iPad website last year, has been hacked today. At least a couple of hours, obscenity message loads to the site Goatse Security said: "I took the liberty to expose a gaping hol...

Banks Lack Cybersecurity Measures: Top Interpol Official Raises Concerns

A top Interpol chief has expressed concerns about the cybersecurity measures in banks across the region. According to Major Ali Qubaisi, the Interpol team leader for the Middle East and North Africa, and head of the Economic Crimes unit of the Qatari Interior Ministry, banks in the region are...

Cyber Stalking and Defamation Criminalized in IT Act Amendments

With mobile phones now essentially serving as personal computers, proposed amendments to the Information Technology Act, 2006, specify that transmitting offensive or menacing text, audio, or video can result in two years of imprisonment. This punishment also applies if the content is false and...