EFF: New Cybersecurity Bill Better, Still Unnecessary

The controversial Lieberman-Collins Cybersecurity Act has been scrapped and replaced by a new bill that online rights advocates still consider unnecessary, but which they also acknowledge is a vast improvement on the slew of other bills that have cropped up in recent months. Thankfully, the...

Atlanta IT Worker Hacked Ex-Employers Database

Atlanta IT Worker Hacked Ex-Employers Database An Atlanta man could receive up to five years in prison after pleading guilty Wednesday to hacking into a former employer's patient database, stealing information and then wiping the database clean. Federal prosecutors said Eric McNeal, 37, used the...

Dutch Teens Arrested for Cyberattacks on Mastercard and Visa

A Dutch hacker collective called Revspace aims to "re-educate" Dutch teens suspected of cyberattacks against Mastercard, Visa, and the Dutch National Prosecutors Office, transforming them into "ethical hackers." Last week, Dutch police arrested a 16-year-old boy for participating in web attacks...

DDoS Suspect Who Caused Conservative Havoc Charged

Federal prosecutors have accused a man of carrying out a series of botnet offenses including attacks that brought down the websites of conservative talking heads Bill O’Reilly, Ann Coulter and Rudolph Giuliani. Read the full article. The Register...

Feds Seek 25-Year Sentence for TJX Hacker

Computer hacker Albert Gonzalez deserves a quarter-century behind bars for leading a gang of cyberthieves who stole tens of millions of credit and debit card numbers from a transaction processor and several giant retail chains, federal prosecutors argued in a recent court filing. Read the full...

Sweden Will Handle NASA, Cisco Hacker

The prosecution of a Swedish man charged with breaching the computer networks of NASA and Cisco Systems and making off with sensitive source code will be transferred to Swedish authorities, US federal prosecutors said Monday. Read the full article. The Register...

U.S. Takes Down $9 Million RBS WorldPay Hacking Ring

U.S. and international prosecutors have taken down a criminal ring that they allege was responsible for an ATM scam last year that stole about $9 million from RBS WorldPay. The criminals were able to evade the company’s encryption system used on payroll debit cards and withdraw money from ATMs in...