Why run a DDoS-for-hire service? Easy money
Who run so-called ‘booter’ services that are used to knock out websites and are sometimes used for extortion? Young males. Why? Easy money.
Who run so-called ‘booter’ services that are used to knock out websites and are sometimes used for extortion? Young males. Why? Easy money.
The founder of now defunct virtual currency Liberty Reserve has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for using his company to run a huge money laundering scheme catering to cybercriminals.
Grant Gross | 10 May | Read more
Cybercriminals are redoubling efforts to steal payment card details from retailers before new defenses are put in place, according to FireEye.
Jeremy Kirk | 29 Mar | Read more
This October, US merchants and payment providers are scheduled to switch to new, more secure, chip-based payments. But financial transactions aren't going to become safer overnight, since the majority of merchants are still not ready for the switch, magnetic stripes aren't actually going away, some merchants link loyalty programs to payments, and because the new chip technology will do nothing to improve the security of online shopping.
Maria Korolov | 08 Sep | Read more
NSW Police will have access to a new forensic information database within nine months along with a suite of centralised records management and field imaging systems.
Darren Pauli | 02 Jun | Read more
Stein Bagger, the Danish IT executive who allegedly created millions of dollars in fake contracts for his company, has claimed in an interview that he was threatened at gunpoint and acted as he did to protect his family.
James Niccolai | 15 Dec | Read more
Stein Bagger, the Danish IT executive who turned himself in to Los Angeles police on Saturday and confessed to being wanted by Interpol, is being held by U.S. immigration officials and will be sent back to Denmark to face charges.
James Niccolai | 10 Dec | Read more
The case against Julie Amero is finally closed.
Robert McMillan | 24 Nov | Read more
An IT manager who logged onto to his former employer's computer network five months after being fired and opened the e-mail server up to spammers has been sentenced to one year in prison.
Robert McMillan | 05 Nov | Read more