Security News

Dark web marketplace Wall Street Market busted by international police
2019-05-07 09:59

It went down in flames, with a rogue admin blackmailing vendors and buyers and leaking login credentials and the IP address.

German Police Shut Down Major 'Darknet' Illegal Trading Site
2019-05-03 11:34

German police have shut down one of the world's largest illegal online markets in the so-called darkweb and arrested the three men allegedly running it, prosecutors said Friday. The operation...

Police and NCSC to Breach Victims: We Won't Tell Regulators
2019-04-26 13:48

Incident Responders and Law Enforcement Promise Firewall With GDPR WatchdogNearly one year after the EU's new privacy law came into effect, the U.K.'s National Cyber Security Agency continues to...

Google’s location history data shared routinely with police
2019-04-16 10:22

Law enforcement officials in the US have been routinely mining Google’s location history data for criminal investigations.

Is there a link between videogaming and cybercrime? Police think so
2019-04-15 12:42

UK police are planning to issue online warnings to young gamers hoping to deter them from a life of cybercrime, they revealed last week.

Google Helps Police Identify Devices Close to Crime Scenes Using Location Data
2019-04-15 12:03

It's no secret that Google tracks you everywhere, even when you keep Google's Location History feature disabled. As revealed by an Associated Press investigation in 2018, other Google apps like...

Capita bags £13.2m Police Scotland deal for crime-snooping tech
2019-04-04 15:25

Picking up slack from doomed Accenture IT contract i6 Outsourcing badass Capita has gulped down a tasty £13.2m morsel dished out by the Scottish Police Authority: namely, the deal for Police...

Canadian Police Raid ‘Orcus RAT’ Author
2019-04-02 14:50

Canadian police last week raided the residence of a Toronto software developer responsible for authoring and selling “Orcus RAT,” a software product that’s been marketed on underground forums and...

UK Police Federation Hit by Ransomware
2019-03-22 17:12

The UK Police Federation of England & Wales (PFEW) website was subject to a malware attack that it discovered on March 9, 2019. It appears that this was a ransomware attack; but the strain has not...

Brit Police Federation cops to ransomware attack on HQ systems
2019-03-21 15:22

Sort-of union for bobbies has triggered criminal investigation The Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW), a sort-of trade union for police workers, has been battling to contain a...