Law & order
Operation Aurora hack was counterespionage, not China picking on Tibetan activists
Claims are made that the Aurora hackers weren't just Chinese-sponsored hackers bent on messing with Tibetan activists.
Rather it was a Chinese counterintelligence operation that sought to discover if the US had uncovered the identity of clandestine agents operating within its borders.
SSCC 109 - Laptop theft, money mules, LulzSec, Microsoft and more [PODCAST]
Episode #109 of our popular Chet Chat podcast series is out.
Chet and Duck are back with their almost entirely reverent opinions on the latest computer security issues.
DDoS-for-hire service is legal and even lets FBI peek in, says a guy with an attorney
It's "a public service on a public connection to other public servers", the operator of RageBooter told Brian Krebs, and if sites don't like getting their socks knocked off in DDoS attacks, they should fix recursive DNS and default DNS server settings.
Oh, and yes, he says, he not only cooperates with the FBI, he works with them. He's busy on Tuesdays around 1 p.m., so try later if you need to to launch an attack.
Blogger threatened with $1 billion suit for writing about allegedly predatory publisher
Jeffrey Beall, a US academic librarian who uses his Scholarly Open Access blog to write about scholarly publishers' dubious practices, is being threatened with a $1 billion lawsuit by an Indian publishing group.
Congress asks Google if and how it's protecting privacy with Glass
The US Congress sent Google a letter listing eight specific privacy areas concerning Glass that legislators would like to know quite a bit more about. As would many of us, now that you mention it.
Monday review - the hot 24 stories of the week
In case you missed any recent stories, here's everything we wrote in the last seven days.
Interview with 'We are Anonymous' author Parmy Olson [PODCAST]
In this podcast Chester interviews Parmy Olson author of "We are Anonymous" about her thoughts on LulzSec, their sentencing and the Anonymous movement. Parmy also shares some of her thoughts on Firefox OS and other developments from Mobile World Congress 2013.
Opinion: No, the LulzSec hackers weren't noble
Graham Cluley argues that it's not cool, or funny, to hack into companies, expose the private information of members of the general public, and to launch denial of service attacks.
Jail for the LulzSec hacking gang members
BREAKING NEWS: Members of the notorious LulzSec hacking gang have been sentenced at Southwark Crown Court in London.
Have your say - LulzSec: helpful, harmless or hideous? [VOTE NOW]
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LulzSec are about to be sentenced, which will tell us what the judge thinks.
But why not tell us what you think, right here, right now?
The LulzSec hackers who boasted they were "Gods" await their sentence
Four members of the notorious LulzSec hacking gang, who attacked websites belonging to the likes of the CIA, the NHS and the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), are due to be sentenced by the UK authorities.
Naked Security discusses cybercrime on BBC Radio 5 Live's "Outriders" show...
Ever wondered how cybercriminals turn electronic trickery into cold, hard cash? What sort of person gets drawn into this sort of crime? Who bears the cost? And how do the cops arrest the perpetrators when they might be dozens of network hops away?
US DOJ secretly swiped Associated Press phone records
The AP reports that records for two months of calls to 20 lines were seized, including a phone line straight into the heart of the House of Representatives. Congress, to its credit, is not amused.
'Food porn' Instagram photo of fancy steak/mac and cheese dinner leads IRS to identity thieves
Identity thieves can't help but brag about all the food they consume with the money they're stealing... Too bad their smarts aren't as big as their appetite.
Phishers waste woman's £1m life savings on cheeseburgers, champagne and gold
Crooks who swindled a woman out of her £1 million ($1.5 million) life savings, and blew their ill-gotten gains on cheeseburgers, gold and computers, are now facing jail time.
Sony hacking suspect smashes computers to get out of prosecution
The Columbus, Ohio man has been sentenced to one year of house arrest for stymying an FBI investigation into the 2011 hacks, which saw millions of online players' data breached.
Monday review - the hot 19 stories of the week
It's that time of the week again - here's your roundup of everything we wrote in the last seven days.
"Casher crew" from global $45m cyberheist busted in New York - 1 dead, 7 face trial
When you think of cybercrime, you probably imagine a hacker sitting far from his victims, breaking in digitally from a distance.
But when it comes to cashing out the proceeds of your crime, it's a question of "Go where the money is...and go there often."
Subway multimillion-dollar hack ringleader pleads guilty
Adrian-Tiberiu Oprea, a Romanian national and the alleged ringleader of the gang responsible for a multimillion-dollar hack of the Subway fast-food chain, has pleaded guilty.
Syria disappears off the face of the internet
It looks like internet access into and out of Syria has been shut down, cutting the country off from the rest of the internet.
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