Bitcoin, which has seen a meteoric rise in value over the past year, is also fast attracting criminals and there have been a string of robberies lately involving the digital currency. In the past two months alone there have been s...
Canadian authorities recently busted a child pornography business that spanned countries worldwide. As a result of the three-year investigation, 348 people — 108 Canadians, 76 U.S. citizens, and 164 citizens from various cou...
Sad times for an Australian 18-year-old, who goes by the name TradeFortress and managed to lose $1 million in Bitcoin. The money was stolen (read: hacked) from an online Bitcoin bank he controlled, so right away the logical decisi...
It seems that iosHunt isn’t the only site to have had a resurrection as of late. Silk Road is back and those currently running it claim that it will be much harder to shut down than the first one was. The first version of th...
When it comes to Kickstarter, it is clear that not every campaign might turn out well in the end. This means that folks must take great care along with doing the research before making a pledge. However, we never thought Kickstart...
Vladimir Kats, one of the seven men associated with creating Liberty Reserve (an online bank), has pled guilty to money laundering and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business. He has admitted to creating the digital mo...
Three men stole credit card information from a Nordstrom department store in Florida by installing keyloggers, according to a report by KrebsOnSecurity. The accompanying police report alleges the men plugged standard keyloggers in...
Hugo Teso is a security researcher at N.Runs, a Germany-based IT consultancy firm. He is also a licensed commercial pilot. So he did what any other regular person would do with two seemingly unrelated interests: use one to exploit...
After recent cyber attacks on high-profile companies like Facebook, Twitter and then Apple, everyone seemed to be pointing fingers at China. But now reports have surfaced claiming that the attacks on those companies originated fro...
According to report by the BBC, the origins of the unusually numerous and high-profile attacks on US companies has been found. It is indeed coming from somewhere in China — Shanghai to be exact. But it doesn’t stop the...
In a statement released yestreday, Apple has disclosed that a number of their employees’ Macs have been compromised by malware through a vulnerability in the Java plug-in for browsers. The website that was infected and consi...
The Singapore Police Force has reported a sudden rise in the number of “cyber blackmail” cases being reported. The cases are also similar in that the primary target are men, and that they are tricked through social med...
