No, thank you, we will *not* pay you 1 Bitcoin to stop the attack and teach us about our supposed vulnerabilities, Bitalo said, after being threatened with a DDoS. Instead, we will pay 100x that amount to track you down.
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Last Pirate Bay co-founder, Fredrik Neij, arrested crossing Thailand-Laos border
Fredrik Neij, the last Pirate Bay co-founder still at large after 5 years of avoiding serving jail time back home in Sweden, was arrested Monday at the Thailand-Laos border. 
How to steal a million dollars (actually, $999,999.99) – no PIN required
Researchers at Newcastle University in the UK have come up with a surprising way of attacking contactless payments. The £20 safety limit for PINless transactions evaporates if payment is requested in a foreign currency, potentially opening the way to a $999,999.99 cup of coffee…
Rugby team’s site defaced to read ‘i love you isis’
Counter-terrorism police in the UK are investigating cybervandalism of a local UK rugby team’s website.
GATSO! Speed camera phish leads to CryptoLocker ransomware clone…
Recently, we came across an intriguing phishing campaign that combines two feared products of the information age. Gatsos (speed cameras) and ransomware, rolled into one attack!
Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg sentenced to 3.5 years in jail over CSC hack
Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and an accomplice identified only as “T2” were convicted of hacking into a server belonging to American tech giant CSC in February 2012.
College kids still using Snapchat despite ‘The Snappening’, says report
A study found that 75% of undergraduates said they planned to keep on using Snapchat in the same way as before, despite photos being snatched from a non-secure third-party service.
HTML5 goes officially live – now you really CAN say goodbye to Java in your browser!
Of the 21.5 years that the WWW has been going strong, 15 have been spent getting from HTML 4 to HTML5. That’s quite a journey! Paul Ducklin takes look at where we are now…
Police can demand fingerprints but not passcodes to unlock phones, rules judge
Fingerprints are what you *are*, passcodes are what you *know*. Therefore the police can demand your fingerprints to unlock a phone without contravening the Fifth Amendment, according to a judge in Virginia, USA. 
“Dear ATM, kindly dispense 30 banknotes as a test” – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Here’s this week’s 60 Second Security video, for your viewing pleasure. From scammers to spammers in just one minute…