Pavel Durov claimed on Twitter on Wednesday that US bureaus made two attempts to bribe his developers while they were on a one-week trip to the US last year. He also insisted that the FBI put pressure on him personally. “During our team’s 1-week stay in the US last year we had two attempts to […]

For the past several years, anti-piracy Company Rightscorp has been moderately successful in forcing smaller margin ISPs in the United States to collaborate in a low-tier copyright trolling operation. The way it operates is relatively simple. Rightscorp monitors BitTorrent networks, obtains the IP addresses of alleged infringers, and gives DMCA notices to their ISPs. Rightscorp

A UK-based computer hacker has admitted stealing hundreds of usernames and email addresses from a US military communications system. Sean Caffrey, 25, of Sutton Coldfield in the West Midlands, broke in and pinched the ranks, usernames and email addresses of more than 800 users of a satellite communications system and of about 30,000 satellite phones,

By now, chances are pretty good that you’ve heard of bitcoin, the cryptocurrency unleashed on the world in 2009 by a mysterious person or group that goes by Satoshi Nakamoto. Maybe you’ve heard it’s the currency that fuels massive darknet drug markets like the now-defunct Silk Road. Or maybe your encounter with the cryptocoin was

Since Congress voted to prevent the implementation of new ISP privacy protections there has been a committed and sometimes loud call for new rules. The fear is, without adequate safeguards in place, ISPs will be free to build detailed customer profiles that include names, addresses and online activities. That data can then be sold to,

Computer systems at two universities are yet to be fully restored following ransomware attacks that struck them over 48 hours ago. On Wednesday 14th June, University College London and Ulster University both came under attack from ransomware. Security staff at the UCL Information Services Division (ISD) temporarily blocked access to shared and network drives to

Faced with skyrocketing complaints about tech-support scams, Microsoft is turning to artificial intelligence to identify the masterminds behind the fraud. Besides prettying up iPhone photos and blitzing Ms Pac-Man, Microsoft’s AI is helping fight the real-world problem of tech-support scams, whose operators are increasingly using the web to automate the fraud with pop-up ads that

A 25-year-old British man has pleaded guilty to breaking into a US Defense department satellite communication system and stealing data on employees and devices. The UK’s National Crime Agency said Sean Caffrey from Birmingham had admitted to taking information from more than 800 employee user accounts and 30,000 satellite phones. Read more

Australian sysadmins continue to live dangerously and expose insecure network services to a hostile internet, putting themselves at risk of compromise and information theft. Security vendor Rapid7 scanned much of the IPv4 internet [pdf] to check the extent of networked computer systems exposing services to the world. The scans ranked Australia ninth globally for offering more

Authorities have conducted a large-scale operation against cyber criminals in several European countries. As a result, 6 people have been arrested while 36 have been questioned after Europol, Germany’s Kriminalinspektion Mayen, the Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT) and Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) raided 20 houses in Cyprus, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, and the United Kingdom between 5th