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US, EU Spar Over Sharing Electronic Evidence in Investigations
2019-05-13 18:04

In August 2016, the lifeless bodies of a young French man and woman were discovered on a beach in Madagascar, with murder suspected. The secret to the case could be in the last messages they sent,...

Baltimore hit with more ransomware, ChinaMobile gets the boot in the US, and another Systemd system-d'oh!
2019-05-13 05:55

Plus, Diachenko strikes again with Indian data find This week, a Symantec boss stepped down, a Chinese hacker was called out, and an AirBnB hidden camera creep was cuffed.…

Who pwns the watchmen? Maybe Russians selling the source code for three US antivirus vendors
2019-05-10 11:01

Unnamed security shops said to have lost source code A Russian hacking outfit says it has stolen confidential data from a trio of US antivirus companies.…

Three ways GDPR benefits US companies
2019-05-10 05:30

It’s hard to believe we’ve almost reached the one-year anniversary of the date the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect. Leading up to that May 25, 2018 date, news headlines...

US indicts a Chinese hacking crew that romped through Anthem's servers for almost a year
2019-05-09 23:30

Fujie accused of killing them softly with his scripts The US Department of Justice has announced indictments against two members of a China-based hacking crew it says was behind one of the biggest...

US minister invokes Maggie Thatcher, says she would have halted Huawei 5G rollout
2019-05-09 15:05

Mike Pompeo reaches beyond grave to read Iron Lady's mind in ongoing security spat Margaret Thatcher would not let Huawei build Britain's 5G networks, US foreign secretary Mike Pompeo claimed...

US foreign minister Mike Pompeo to give UK a bollocking over Huawei 5G plans
2019-05-08 11:05

And after that he's having tea with an archbishop. No, really America’s foreign secretary is to deliver a telling-off to the UK over the British government’s decision to maintain the Huawei status...

Malvertiser behind 100+ million bad ads indicted in the US
2019-05-08 11:00

A Ukrainian and his gang allegedly smeared malvertising for 4.5 years and tried to rent out a botnet full of infected computers.

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90% of data breaches in US occur in New York and California
2019-05-07 15:32

Half a billion records have been exposed in total, with over 86 breaches affecting the two states since January, according to Risk Based Security.

European, US Investigators Make Major Darknet Bust
2019-05-06 08:25

European and American investigators have broken up one of the world’s largest online criminal marketplaces for drugs, hacking tools and financial-theft wares in raids in the United States, Germany...