September featured two stories on a phony tech investor named John Bernard, a pseudonym used by a convicted thief named John Clifton Davies who's fleeced dozens of technology companies...
Read moreWho’s Behind Monday’s 14-State 911 Outage?
September 29 2020Emergency 911 systems were down for more than an hour on Monday in towns and cities across 14 U.S. states. The outages led many news outlets to speculate the...
Read moreWho is Tech Investor John Bernard?
September 25 2020John Bernard, the subject of a story here last week about a self-proclaimed millionaire investor who has bilked countless tech startups, appears to be a pseudonym for John Clifton...
Read moreDue Diligence That Money Can’t Buy
September 14 2020Most of us automatically put our guard up when someone we don't know promises something too good to be true. But when the too-good-to-be-true thing starts as our idea,...
Read moreSendgrid Under Siege from Hacked Accounts
August 28 2020Email service provider Sendgrid is grappling with an unusually large number of customer accounts whose passwords have been cracked, sold to spammers, and abused for sending phishing and email...
Read moreConfessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part II
August 27 2020Yesterday's piece told the tale of Hieu Minh Ngo, a hacker the U.S. Secret Service described as someone who caused more material financial harm to more Americans than any...
Read moreConfessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part I
August 26 2020At the height of his cybercriminal career, the hacker known as "Hieupc" was earning $125,000 a month running a bustling identity theft service that siphoned consumer dossiers from some...
Read moreMicrosoft Put Off Fixing Zero Day for 2 Years
August 17 2020A security flaw in the way Microsoft Windows guards users against malicious files was actively exploited in malware attacks for two years before last week, when Microsoft finally issued...
Read morePerhaps fittingly, a Web-streamed court hearing for the 17-year-old alleged mastermind of the July 15 mass hack against Twitter was cut short this morning after mischief makers injected a...
Read moreRobocall Legal Advocate Leaks Customer Data
August 3 2020A California company that helps telemarketing firms avoid getting sued for violating a federal law that seeks to curb robocalls has leaked the phone numbers, email addresses and passwords...
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