Chris Aragon, one of the leaders of the ID theft and fraud forum known as the Carders Market, has pled guilty to stealing thousands of personal identities and counterfeiting credit cards to buy high-end goods that were resold on eBay and craigslist.
FTC reaches settlement on charges over RockYou breach
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has reached a settlement with the social gaming site RockYou over charges it failed to protect the privacy of its users, enabling hackers to access personal information on 32 million users in 2009.
Digital Crime: Fourth great era of organized crime
Organized digital crime is growing – but we still know little about the structure of organized digital crime groups. A new report from BAE Detica Systems and the John Grieve Centre for Policing and Security at London Metropolitan University seeks to ch…
Australia blocks China’s Huawei from broadband project over security concerns
The Australian government has blocked China’s Huawei Technologies from participating in the country’s AUS$36 billion national broadband network (NBN) project because of cybersecurity concerns.
Belarusian sentenced to US prison for assisting identity theft scams
A Belarusian named Dmitry Naskovets has been sentenced to 33 months in federal prison for operating CallService.biz, an online site that helped over 2,000 identity thieves commit fraud, federal authorities announced on Friday.
Watchdog warns US agencies lax on global IT supply chain security
The General Accounting Office (GAO) is warning that insecurity in the global IT supply chain is putting US national security agencies at risk.
LulzSec Reborn posts data on over 170,000 MilitarySingles.com users
The MilitarySingles.com website has apparently been hacked by LulzSec Reborn, exposing user information on 170,000 members.
Microsoft takes control of 800 domains associated with Zeus botnets
In a major action against the banking trojan Zeus, Microsoft with FS-ISAC and NACHA and research from Kyrus Tech and F-Secure have succeeded in disrupting a number of the most harmful Zeus botnets in “in an unprecedented, proactive cross-industry actio…
US government extends period that intelligence on citizens can be retained
The US government has issued new counterterrorism guidelines that allow for the retention of intelligence on US citizens for five years, rather than the current 180 days.
Kaiser Permanente data breach affects thousands of employees
Managed health care consortium Kaiser Permanente has notified thousands of current and former employees that their personal information was found on an external hard drive purchased in a second-hand store in California.