Law & order
Monday review - the hot 13 stories of the week
Catch up with everything we've written in the last seven days with this handy weekly roundup
Rohypnol, rape and other disturbing content. Isn't it about time Facebook cleaned up its act?
Facebook should be doing more to protect its billion users from abuse, argues Graham Cluley.
Can any social network defend taking no proactive action against pages which promote date-rape drug Rohypnol and have obviously offensive content?
Spring ushers in US tax scam season
To remind taxpayers to be on the lookout for scams ranging from identity theft to return-preparer fraud, the IRS posted its Dirty Dozen list of tax scams for 2013.
Massive DDoS attack against anti-spam provider impacts millions of internet users
The largest recorded DDoS attack has been ongoing for over eight days now, causing slowdowns and errors throughout the internet. Is this a one time scenario or does this expose a greater weakness in the world's largest network?
Five Slovenians arrested for $2.5M email banking fraud
Slovenian police on Thursday raided 12 homes and arrested five Slovenian citizens in connection with sending malware-packed email to small and medium businesses' accounting departments.
17-year-old arrested for hacking into phones, stealing and distributing explicit images of children
A US teenager is charged with distributing child pornography after allegedly hacking minors' cellphones through an SMS ad that installed malware, giving him access to the phones' content.
Monday review - the hot 21 stories of the week
It's weekly roundup time. Here's all the great stuff we've written in the past seven days.
IT admin pleads guilty to hacking into and spying on New Jersey mayor's email
Patrick Ricciardi configured computer systems to collect all emails sent to the mayor and two high-ranking city employees.
He did it, he said, to see if his job was secure. We can say with reasonable certainty now that it is not.
Researcher uses botnet to map internet - vital public service, or cybercriminal dodginess? [POLL]
An anonymous researcher just published a paper that claims to have mapped out almost the entire internet for the first, and perhaps the last, time.
Thing is, he used a virus to create a giant botnet to do it. Does the end justify the means?
Is it ever acceptable for a journalist to hack into somebody else's email?
Sky News journalist Gerard Tubb may have hacked into emails sent by "Canoe Man", but he will escape prosecution.
Other journalists would be unwise, says Graham Cluley, to see this as a green light for email hacking.
AT&T hacker "Weev" sentenced to 41 months in prison, after obtaining the email addresses of 100,000+ iPad users
Andrew Auernheimer has been sentenced for the federal crimes of obtaining the personal data of over 100,000 iPad owners from AT&T's publicly accessible website.
Besides his prison sentence, he's facing 3 years of probation and, together with another convicted hacker, paying restitution of $73,000.
California duo charged with selling ready-to-hack Point-of-Sale systems to Subway branches
A pair of former Subway franchisees from California have been charged with cyberfraud against their former fellows.
The DoJ alleges they sold pre-compromised PoS systems that allowed them to plunder gift card credits from afar...
Reuters journalist who allegedly conspired with Anonymous hackers is suspended
A Reuters journalist has been indicted by a US federal grand jury for allegedly handing over the login credentials of his former employer, Los Angeles Times parent company Tribune Co., to Anonymous hackers.
Monday review - the hot 32 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.
Hackers launch DDoS attack on security blogger's site, send SWAT team to his home
Brian Krebs was the victim of a caller ID spoof that resulted in armed police surrounding his house. He's pretty sure about the criminal element responsible and has linked the perpetrator(s) to a denial-of-service attack against Ars Technica following its report of Krebs's ordeal.
American retailer Genesco sues Visa, demands $13m in PCI-DSS data breach fines paid back
Genesco, a massive American retailer, suffered an intrusion by cybercrooks in 2010. It was subsequently "fined" over $10m by the payment card industry.
Now it wants its money back...
Google: Yep, our cars steamrolled your privacy
A $7 million fine imposed by 38 US states will settle an investigation into Google's grab of private data - including emails, text messages, browsing histories and passwords - from unsecured wireless networks as its cars patrolled neighborhoods, snapping photos around the world.
Skype in hot water over failure to let French police eavesdrop
French telecom regulators have suggested that Skype could face charges for failing to register as a telecom and do all the things that French telecoms are supposed to do - for example, let French police eavesdrop on calls...
Equifax and Transunion say hackers stole celebrity credit reports
After the social security numbers, addresses and financial details of some of the USA's top celebrities were posted online, top credit bureaus have come forward and acknowledged that fraudulent and unauthorized access to their records has taken place.
Mega-hack of celebrities exposes social security numbers, credit reports, and more...
Beyoncé, Michelle Obama, Paris Hilton and more public figures have had their personal information exposed on the internet.
But who is behind it?
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