CEO who sold fake Cisco devices to US military gets 6 years in prison
Onur Aksoy, the CEO of a group of companies controlling multiple online storefronts, was sentenced to six and a half…
Man Who Mass-Extorted Psychotherapy Patients Gets Six Years
A 26-year-old Finnish man was sentenced to more than six years in prison today after being convicted of hacking into…
FCC Fines Major U.S. Wireless Carriers for Selling Customer Location Data
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today levied fines totaling nearly $200 million against the four major carriers -- including…
California crime reform gets ‘unheard of’ support from DAs, small businesses, progressive mayors
A "common sense" ballot initiative to reform California's Prop 47 has earned 900,000 signatures to make the November ballot, far…
Minneapolis ordinance imposes highest minimum cigarette price in America
The Minneapolis City Council voted unanimously on Thursday to impose a minimum cigarette price of $15 per pack — the…
Chinese Keyboard Apps Open 1B People to Eavesdropping
Eight out of nine apps that people use to input Chinese characters into mobile devices have weakness that allow a…
New Brokewell malware takes over Android devices, steals data
Security researchers have discovered a new Android banking trojan they named Brokewell that can capture every event on the device,…
Russian FSB Counterintelligence Chief Gets 9 Years in Cybercrime Bribery Scheme
The head of counterintelligence for a division of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) was sentenced last week to nine…
Who Stole 3.6M Tax Records from South Carolina
For nearly a dozen years, residents of South Carolina have been kept in the dark by state and federal investigators…
UK flooded with forged stamps despite using barcodes — to prevent just that
Royal Mail, the British postal and courier service began switching all snail mail stamps to barcoded stamps last year. The…