The City of London Police has started swapping out legitimate ads on websites believed to be serving up pirated content, instead plastering them with warning banner ads.
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eBay’s StubHub ransacked for over $1 million, international crime ring arrested
US police have indicted six people across four countries on charges of defrauding eBay’s StubHub for over $1 million in pilfered tickets for things like Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake concerts. eBay says its servers weren’t broken into; rather, password reuse and account holders’ PCs being riddled with malware are to blame. 
Car hackers build anti-car-hacking gadget
Besides yet more white-knuckled car-jacking stunts, security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek also plan to unveil at next month’s Black Hat conference a prototype device meant to foil the type of hacks they’ve been throwing at cars.
“Rickmote” box Rickrolls Chromecast, forcibly earworms hapless victims
Never gonna give you up, Never gonna let you down, Never gonna run around and desert you.
DARPA dissects Twitter, Facebook, Reddit to extract propaganda how-to’s
The internet found out last week that Facebook’s been dissecting us. Now, it looks like DARPA’s been at it too, with research on users of Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Pinterest, Kickstarter and Digg. 
Revenge porn hits two high profile boyfriends where it hurts
Former NSA analyst and vocal NSA supporter John Schindler had his pink parts exposed by a lover in an extramarital affair, and a state representative’s chief of staff was outed by a porn star ex-girlfriend and subsequently resigned. Revenge porn might typically target women, but these cases clearly show that we’re all vulnerable when it comes to sharing explicit content. 
22-year-old “organized crime” cybercrook convicted under racketeering law gets TWENTY years
David Ray Camez was just 17 when he embarked on life as a cyberfraudster, ending up in prison for seven years. But he was subsequently also convicted under racketeering laws, which provide for stiffer penalties. Now he’s been sentenced…
US Navy sailor allegedly led team that hacked government computers
A US Navy systems administrator stationed on the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman acted as ringleader for a gang of anti-government cyber crooks, prosecutors alleged last week. 
Cops get serious about cybercrime, and not before time
The world’s police forces are, it seems, starting to appreciate the scale and significance of the cybercrime problem. Let’s hope the process of international co-operation continues to pick up the steam we’ve been seeing in the last few weeks. 