[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] In 2019, a Canadian company called...
Read more[This is Part II of a story published here last week on reporting that went into a new Hulu documentary series on the 2015 Ashley Madison hack.] It was around...
Read moreApple & Microsoft Patch Tuesday, July 2023 Edition
July 12 2023Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to quash 130 security bugs in its Windows operating systems and related software, including at least five flaws that are already seeing active...
Read moreWhen the marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com learned in July 2015 that hackers were threatening to publish data stolen from 37 million users, the company’s then-CEO Noel Biderman was quick...
Read moreWho’s Behind the DomainNetworks Snail Mail Scam?
July 3 2023If you've ever owned a domain name, the chances are good that at some point you've received a snail mail letter which appears to be a bill for a...
Read moreNikita Kislitsin, formerly the head of network security for one of Russia's top cybersecurity firms, was arrested last week in Kazakhstan in response to 10-year-old hacking charges from the...
Read moreU.K. Cyber Thug “PlugwalkJoe” Gets 5 Years in Prison
June 28 2023Joseph James "PlugwalkJoe" O'Connor, a 24-year-old from the United Kingdom who earned his 15 minutes of fame by participating in the July 2020 hack of Twitter, has been sentenced...
Read moreThe United Parcel Service (UPS) says fraudsters have been harvesting phone numbers and other information from its online shipment tracking tool in Canada to send highly targeted SMS phishing...
Read moreWhy Malware Crypting Services Deserve More Scrutiny
June 22 2023If you operate a cybercrime business that relies on disseminating malicious software, you probably also spend a good deal of time trying to disguise or "crypt" your malware so...
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