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Pirate Bay Co-Founder Charged With Hacking And Fraud In Sweden
Pirate Bay cofounder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg has been charged on suspicion that he hacked into a variety of companies, as well as fraudulently withdrawing money from the Swedish Nordea bank. Prosecutors claim he — along with three others — hacked IBM mainframes belonging to tax firm Logica and the bank.
How The CSIRO Allegedly Ripped Off A Major Pharmaceutical Company
I love the CSIRO. You probably do, too. I love the idea of a group of really smart people coming together to further our collective knowledge, so to hear that the organisation is being accused of deliberately misleading a major pharmaceutical company by reportedly selling it simple chemicals masked as a complex, in-house anti-counterfeiting technology is something that can take a bit of getting used to. Here’s how it all allegedly went down.
ATM Skimming Is Now Prolific On Payment Terminals And Ticket Machines
ATM skimming has become an art in recent years, with the devices that crooks use becoming ever more sophisticated. But fraudsters are broadening their reach, with payment terminals and ticket machines now just as much targets as ATMs.
Two For One: Amazon’s Socially Engineered Replacement Order Scam
You may recall that Amazon was implicated as the weak link in the Mat Honan iCloud hack, wherein a gadget blogger had his entire online identity nuked from orbit because Amazon gave up the secondary identifying information necessary to issue a password reset over at Apple. I’m sad to say that Amazon has clearly not improved their authentication protocols in any meaningful way, but this time it’s hurting them directly.
Try These Criminal Tricks to Stalk Yourself: It’s Seriously Creepy
A new report out from security company ALLOW shows all the tricks that identity thieves use to stalk their victims. None of it’s particularly sophisticated, but holy hell is it creepy.
Did The Inventor Of Email Not Invent Email?
According to a bunch of geeks who mobilized from all corners of the digital world, V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai is has been masquerading for years as the pioneering mind behind email.
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