During Google’s Pwnium contest at the CanSecWest security conference, Russian bug hunter Sergey Glazunov demonstrated a Chrome exploit that completely defeats the browser’s much touted security sandbox. Chrome is viewed as one of the most secure web browsers by the security community, primarily because of its sandboxed architecture, which restricts…
NY programmer busted by FBI for stealing US Treasury code
The FBI said it arrested a computer programmer in New York this week and charged him with stealing proprietary software code from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The software known as the Government-Wide Accounting and Reporting Program (GWA) handles all manner of US government financial transactions. Stealing the…
Montreal men busted in St. John’s for fraud, ID theft
Two men from Montreal are told they will remain in jail over the weekend, as police expand a fraud investigation that led to their arrests. View full post on id theft jail – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
El Dorado ID theft ring busted by police
Police in El Dorado have arrested about a dozen people and broken up an identity theft ring in which more than a half-million dollars was purportedly stolen from the government through fraudulent tax returns. Some of those returns used the names of state prisoners. Police on Tuesday served a batch…
Multi-state credit card scam busted in Johnson County
Investigators have recovered thousands of dollars worth of items at a home in Paintsville. All were bought with stolen credit cards and being shipped to Ghana. View full post on credit card scam – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Montreal men busted in St. John’s for fraud, ID theft
Two men from Montreal are told they will remain in jail over the weekend, as police expand a fraud investigation that led to their arrests. View full post on id theft jail – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Suspected Gene Simmons Hacker Busted
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$1 Million ATM Fraud Scam Busted
New York Task Force Arrests, Charges FiveATM skimming busts are wins for law enforcement. But how well would banking institutions detect the fraud if their customers weren’t doing such good jobs of reporting these incidents? View full post on CUInfoSecurity.com Articles RSS Syndication View full post on National Cyber Security
Hacker gang busted after stealing $14million in online advertising scam
Crime ring first uncovered by Nasa’s New York office Six Estonians arrested in their home country – seventh member of team at large They had been spreading virus since 2007 By Daniel Miller Last updated at 5:29 PM on 10th November 2011 A gang of internet ‘cyber bandits’ who stole…
FBI: Malware Ring Busted
MYFOXNY.COM – Authorities have arrested and charged six people from Estonia in an elaborate Internet fraud malware operation that infected millions of computers, including some at NASA and other U.S. government agencies, according to federal authorities. The Estonian police and border guard arrested Vladimir Tsastsin, 31, Timur Gerassimenko, 31, Dmitri…