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Street gang members indicted for stealing POS terminals
…and using the credit card terminals to allegedly issue themselves fraudulent returns and to steal taxpayer IDs and bank info.
‘Only paper ballots by 2020!’ call experts after election tampering
The National Academy of Sciences says the US election system uses insecure technology and is fighting off attempts to destabilize it.
Roblox says hacker injected code that led to avatars’ gang rape
Roblox was moving some older, user-generated games to a newer, more secure system when the attack took place, it says.
Don’t take fright – get web security right [PODCAST]
Catch up with Day 2 of our Security SOS Week – here’s the second episode of our week-long online security summit.
Twitter shutters accounts linked to US election hacking
The move comes after special counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment of 12 Russians believed to have used the accounts as fronts in US election hacking.
Hackers break into newswire services, trade on what they find
Some financially-motivated hackers go straight for the money, but others take a more circuitous route, going after information that they can use for profit. That’s what criminals convicted this week did until they were caught in 2015, earning millions in ill-gotten gains.
Nintendo Switch hackers show hacking for mischief is alive and well
Think today’s hackers are only motivated by money? Think again. In the gaming world, there’s plenty of hacks-for-lulz on display.
Real-time cellphone location data leaked for all major US carriers
From the carriers to LocationSmart to 3Cinteractive to Securus: there appears to be a chain pockmarked with lack of authentication and data lost to hackers.
Grade hacking may cost high school its valedictorian
The grade tampering came to light while drawing up a list of top students. Now it’s unclear which students legitimately belong on that list.