Earlier today, this site reported that XSS forum had banned any ransomware-related ads and would be deleting threads and posts. Hours later, Exploit.in followed suit. Good day, We are glad to see pentesters, specialists, coders. But they are not happy with lockers, they attract a lot of attention. The very type of activity is not pleasant…
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Australia proposes teaching cyber-security to five-year-old kids
Simon Sharwood reports: Australia has decided that six-year-old children need education on cyber-security, even as it removes other material from the national curriculum. A newly revised draft of the national curriculum for children aged five to sixteen, launched yesterday, added a new strand titled “Considering privacy and security” that “involves students developing appropriate techniques for…
Welcome to DataBreaches.net, Chum1ng0!
Regular readers will have already noticed that many of the recent non-American breach stories have been contributed by @Chum1ng0. I’m thrilled to say that he is now getting even more involved in submitting news items to this site. @Chum1ng0 is from Chile and is passionate about cybersecurity and following the news on cybersecurity. I don’t…
In Memoriam, Kurt Wimmer
One of the most important contributors to this blog will be laid to rest this morning, and I am absolutely gutted. For more than one decade, Kurt Wimmer was this blog and this blogger’s First Amendment defender and counsel. It was only with Kurt’s pro bono help and that of Jason Criss, and their colleagues…
Dark web hitman identified through crypto-analysis
Europol supported the Italian Postal and Communication Police (Polizia Postale e delle Comunicazioni) in arresting an Italian national suspected of hiring a hitman on the dark web. The hitman, hired through an internet assassination website hosted on the TOR network, was payed about €10 000 worth in Bitcoins to kill the ex-girlfriend of the suspect….
So this site has been 404 a bit….
If you are a regular reader, you likely noticed that since yesterday, my sites have been 404 at times. At first, I thought I broke something, because I am truly quite capable of breaking things. But then the sites came back… and stayed up.. until today, when they went down again. Firewall logs show a…