Tag Archives: cyber-crime

‘Right to Be Forgotten’ and Other Cyberlaw Cases Go to Court (Bloomberg)

“The law can’t be right if it’s 50 years old. Like, it’s before the internet.” The quote is from a speech Larry Page made at a Google developers conference in 2013, and i... More

There Is No Such Thing as Private Data (The Atlantic)

Just a few years after social media began to permeate students’ high-school experiences, the terrifying rumors began to spread: a liberal arts college that rescinded an admission... More

For Sale: 70,000 Hacked Servers — For as Little as $6 Apiece (ARS Technica)

Underscoring the flourishing world of for-profit hacking, researchers have uncovered a thriving marketplace that sells access to more than 70,000 previously compromised servers, in... More

Inside the Slow Workings of the U.S.-China Cybersecurity Agreement (Wall Street Journal)

Getting the world’s two largest powers to work together on a subject as touchy as cybersecurity was always bound to be difficult. How difficult? Nine months after Barack Obama a... More

The New Economics of Cybercrime (The Atlantic)

It’s a good time to be a cybercriminal. There are more victims to target, there is more data to steal, and there is more money to be made from doing so than ever before. It woul... More

Slicing Into a Point-of-Sale Botnet (Krebs on Security)

Last week, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news of an ongoing credit card breach involving CiCi’s Pizza, a restaurant chain in the United States with more than 500 locations. What foll... More

How to Disrupt the Business of Hacking (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)

Cybercriminals are hacking into enterprises and making money, not because they are a select group of masterminds but because networks are too vulnerable and data too valuable... More

The Delicate Balance in Data Breach Reporting (Bank Info Security)

Troy Hunt's free breach-notification service, Have I Been Pwned?, logs tens of thousands of visits per day, particularly if there's been a major data breach making news headlines. ... More

Cyber Crime Hit Businesses Hardest in 2015, Says IC3 Report (Threat Post)

Businesses were hit hardest by inbox-based scams in 2015 that robbed U.S. companies of $263 million. The numbers come from the FBI’s recently released 2015 Internet Crime Report ... More

FBI Report: Deconstructing the Wide Scope of Internet Crime (Dark Reading)

The FBI recently released its annual data dump from the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), which offers up the consolidated information gleaned from a year's worth of criminal ... More