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Now 29-year-old faces years in the clink after long battle to bring him to justice A 29-year-old Russian scumbag has admitted masterminding the Cardplanet underworld marketplace as well as a second forum for elite fraudsters.… READ MORE HERE…

Don’t want to incriminate yourself? Tough luck, you terrorist The Government Reviewer of Terrorism Laws has declared that safeguards protecting Britons from police workers demanding passwords for their devices must be watered down.… READ MORE HERE…

Yep, the Verizon that sold subscribers’ location data Verizon has slung out a new, privacy-focused search engine in an effort to win over customers who prefer not to have their browsing habits tracked by ad-slingers and the like.… READ MORE HERE…

Rapporteurs call for investigation, technical security report leaks The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammad bin Salman, has been officially fingered as the man responsible for hacking Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s phone, causing a massive stir in diplomatic circles.… READ MORE HERE…

Quickly shuttered partially redacted exposed DB, which included ‘internal notes marked as confidential’ Five identical Elasticsearch databases containing 250 million records of Microsoft customer support incidents were exposed on the internet for all to see for at least two days right at the end of 2019.… READ MORE HERE…

Mid-East nation demands probe into ‘absurd’ claims Updated  Candid pictures used to threaten Amazon boss Jeff Bezos were exposed not by his current parmour’s brother, as some have suggested, but through a sophisticated hacking operation personally directed by the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammad bin Salman, The Guardian has asserted.… READ MORE HERE…

Redmond’s own security tools could be abused to create hard-to-scrub infections The encryption technology Microsoft uses to protect its own file system could also be turned into a weapon for ransomware attackers.… READ MORE HERE…

Finding sparks debate over bug disclosure – and how to secure a local gateway’s web control panel Netgear left in its router firmware key ingredients needed to intercept and tamper with secure connections to its equipment’s web-based admin interfaces.… READ MORE HERE…

Login management service sulks in days-long TITSUP* for some Updated  Password manager LastPass appears to have had a big night out on Friday, to the point where the service needed a lenghty lie down over the weekend. In fact, for some users it is still horizontal.… READ MORE HERE…

Investigators ask Chocolate Factory to help them connect the geographic dots At 1030 on April 27, 2019, four unidentified individuals attempted to rob a Brinks armored truck parked outside of Michaels, an art supply and home decor store at the Point Loomis Shopping Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. To find out who they are, local authorities plan to ask Google.… READ MORE HERE…