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Warrant issued for arrest of cyclist turned hacker
Wednesday, 17 Feb, 2010 – 9:02 | No Comment

“Landis initially won the famous Tour de France cycle race in 2006, but was later stripped of his title when tests indicated that he had taken performance-enhancing drugs.
The cyclist is now wanted in connection with …

Police nab porn hacker behind Moscow traffic mayhem
Tuesday, 16 Feb, 2010 – 19:32 | No Comment

“Russian police said on Tuesday they had arrested a prankster who hacked into a computer system to show a pornographic movie on a giant advertising screen, causing havoc on a busy Moscow thoroughfare.
The two-minute clip, …

Hacked Twitter accounts a delicacy among cybercriminals
Friday, 29 Jan, 2010 – 21:15 | No Comment

“News that cybercriminals are seeking out user names and passwords for resale is nothing new — but according to researchers at the anti-virus company Kaspersky Lab (via Computerworld), stolen Twitter accounts are fetching a higher …

DarkMarket Ringleader Pleads Guilty in London
Thursday, 21 Jan, 2010 – 20:52 | No Comment

“A former ringleader of a top internet carding site run secretly by the FBI has pleaded guilty in the United Kingdom.
Renukanth Subramaniam, aka JiLsi, was a former Pizza Hut delivery guy who helped run one …

Hacker got logins for 8,000 accounts at Suffolk bank
Tuesday, 12 Jan, 2010 – 20:05 | No Comment

“A hacker broke into the Suffolk County National Bank’s online banking system and got access to login information for more than 8,000 customers in November, the bank disclosed Monday.”
(Source: Hacker got logins for 8,000 …

Official Google Blog: A new approach to China
Tuesday, 12 Jan, 2010 – 19:33 | No Comment

“Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted …

Heartland to pay up to $60M for Visa data breach
Friday, 8 Jan, 2010 – 20:25 | No Comment

“Heartland Payment Systems Inc., a New Jersey-based payments processor, has agreed to pay up to roughly $60 million to cover losses caused to Visa Inc. credit and debit cardholders as a result of a huge …

Italian police arrest hacker sought for fraud
Friday, 18 Dec, 2009 – 22:31 | No Comment

“Italian police Friday arrested an alleged hacker with links to organized crime in the Naples area who is accused of defrauding banks and mobile phone operators out of several million dollars.
Fabrizio Iannelli, 33, was arrested …

Cyber crime poses threat to e-commerce
Monday, 14 Dec, 2009 – 8:14 | No Comment

“The past 12 months have been a banner year for cyber crime. And that could be bad news for the future of e-commerce.
‘At current trends, in three or four years people will start to think …

UK police make Zeus Trojan arrests
Friday, 20 Nov, 2009 – 8:35 | No Comment

“The UK Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit made two arrests earlier this month for suspected use of the Zeus Trojan.
A man and a woman, both 20, were apprehended in Manchester on 3 November in Europe’s …