In the latest lesson on Internet safety — or the lack thereof — federal authorities have charged seven men with infecting millions of computers with a virus-like program that tricked users’ Web browsers into navigating to phony pages stocked with ads, earning the defendents as much as $14 million. In…
CHEROKEE: 2 arrested in national ID theft ring
Two local men were arrested Wednesday for their roles in a national identity theft ring. View full post on id theft jail – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
New York ID theft ring broken up
Police in New York say they have broken up an international identity theft ring that used fake credit cards to mainly buy high value computer products. View full post on computer theft – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Reno man gets 10 years in prison for participation in child porn ring
Editor’s note: This story appeared in the Reno Gazette-Journal on August 30, 2006. It is intended to highlight the problem with child pornography in the Truckee Meadows. Ten years in federal prison was imposed on a Reno man who was part of an international Internet child pornography ring that shared…
Cybercrime Ring Nets $3.2 Million in Six Months
The gang is led by a Russian in his early 20s known as ‘Soldier.’ View full post on eSecurityPlanet RSS Feed View full post on National Cyber Security
Hacker Ring Appears to Make Good on Promise to Expose Celebrities
A ring of hackers that boastingly pledged to pry into celebrities’ phones and computers appears to have delivered on that promise — with reported hacks of actresses Scarlett Johannson and Mila Kunis leading to racy photos being posted on the web. The FBI is reportedly investigating the alleged hack of…