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US and UK call out Russian hackers for Georgia attacks
The US and UK governments have both accused Russia of launching a cyber attack against the Georgian government last year.
Council returns to using pen and paper after cyberattack
Ten days after a suspected ransomware attack, residents of the English borough of Redcar and Cleveland must be starting to wonder when their Council’s IT systems will return.
Is there a link between videogaming and cybercrime? Police think so
UK police are planning to issue online warnings to young gamers hoping to deter them from a life of cybercrime, they revealed last week.
Hacker Lauri Love denied bid to get computers back
Hacker Lauri Love has failed to get his computers back six years after UK’s National Crime Agency took them as part of a criminal investigation.
It’s mop-up time for WebStresser DDoS-for-hire users
Cops from 14 countries are seeking to inflict a bit of distributed denial-of-freedom to whoever’s behind 6 million around-the-globe attacks.
National Crime Agency snares teens who used Lizard Squad DDoS tool
The NCA says it wants to reform the teens caught up in its operation targeting users of LizardStresser, an online tool for attacking websites. Is a stern talking-to enough? Or should they face jail time?
Lauri Love rearrested, faces extradition to US on hacking charges
The DOJ’s demand for extradition in a previous UK-US hacking case was overruled; they may not wish to be so easily thwarted this time.
Notorious Shylock banking malware taken out by law enforcement
Law enforcement action led by the National Crime Agency (NCA) in the UK has knocked out the infrastructure of a banking malware known as Shylock, because of excerpts from Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice hidden in its code. Here’s how to check to make sure you weren’t among the more than 30,000 PCs that were infected.
Child abuse images dragnet snares 660 suspected paedophiles
Doctors, teachers, scout leaders, care workers and former police officers – all professions that entail unsupervised access to children – were among 660 who’ve been arrested in an unprecedented child abuse image dragnet in the UK. 