Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: border_security A former prosecutor and a clerk in Colombia’s office of attorney general have been arrested for selling sensitive information about U.S. narcotics prosecutions in New York. The two Colombian nationals were arrested on Nov. 16 in Bogotá and charged with obstruction of justice, said…
Arizona man sentenced for selling access to botnets
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: cyber_security A man who was reportedly part of one of the first “DDOS-for-hire” electronic attack hit squads will serve two-and-a-half years in prison for selling access to malware-infected computers. Joshua Schichtel, 30, of Phoenix, was sentenced on Sept. 6 to 30 months in prison for…
Bringing the Unsexy Back: The Process of Selling SE Penetration Tests
By Chris Hadnagy For the past few months, I’ve brought you articles on launching your career as a social engineer, the psychology and history behind hacking humans and even some scams you can pull on your clients for their own good. As wonderful as it is to talk about the…
FBI and SOCA take down websites selling stolen bank account details
Thirty-six websites used to sell stolen bank account details have been taken down following an investigation by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). In addition, two British men suspected of making large-scale purchases of stolen data from such sites were arrested yesterday, and the UK’s Dedicated Cheque and Plastic Crime…
ProtectMyID: Protecting yourself requires protecting your #credit. Insurance cos. use credit info to assess one’s level of risk when selling policies.
ProtectMyID: Protecting yourself requires protecting your #credit. Insurance cos. use credit info to assess one’s level of risk when selling policies. View full post on Twitter / ProtectMyID View full post on National Cyber Security
Hacker News fan turns his fandom into a business selling you Hacker News
Next to Reddit the only other site that geeks and nerds love as much is Hacker News. Similar to Reddit it is a regular haunt of geeks and nerds who enjoy sharing the interesting bits of news; and thought, that they find on the web. Just as the members of…
Cyber Monday shutdown: FBI seizes 150 sites selling counterfeit goods
The FBI shut down 150 websites authorities said they believed were selling counterfeit goods. The theft of intellectual property, to… View full post on homeland cyber – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
HTCS1: The FBI shuts down 150 websites accused of selling fake products. Read more at http://t.co/xqBZMnjk
HTCS1: The FBI shuts down 150 websites accused of selling fake products. Read more at http://t.co/xqBZMnjk View full post on Twitter / HTCS1
UK has no idea if it’s selling spyware to evil regimes
The UK government says it isn’t exercising any control over the sale of surveillance software nor stopping it from finding its way into the hands of repressive regimes. At the start of the month, Lord David Alton of Liverpool called on the Coalition to ban the export of espionage software…
Police take down 2,000 .co.uk domains selling counterfeit goods
Police have suspended 2,000 .co.uk domains that were being used to rip off consumers with counterfeit goods. The Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) said the sites had been used to pass of a number of popular brands such as Ugg, Nike, GHD, and Tiffany as the genuine article under…