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…
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Senators Offer to Let NSA Hunt Cyber Actors Inside the US
Patrick Tucker reports: A bipartisan group of senators offered to help expand the National Security Agency’s authorities allowing the spy agency to hunt domestically for signals intelligence against foreign adversaries that U.S. officials have said are behind a string of recent attacks, like the recent SolarWinds hack. Several members of the Senate Armed Services Committee…
At-a-glance: the new UK Cyber Security Council
GRC World Forums writes: What is the new UK Cyber Security Council and what will it do? The council is a new independent body which the UK government says will “boost career opportunities and professional standards” in the cyber security sector. It is intended to be a single voice for the industry in the UK…
Criminals arrested after trusting encrypted chat app cracked by police
Graham Cluley reports: Police in the Netherlands and Belgium have made hundreds of raids, and arrested at least 80 people, after cracking into an encrypted phone network used by organised criminals. In a press release, Europol said that crime-fighting authorities in France, Belgium and the Netherlands had not only arrested a large number of suspected criminals,…
US indicts John McAfee for cryptocurrency fraud, money laundering
Sergiu Gatlan reports: U.S. federal prosecutors have charged John McAfee, founder of cybersecurity firm McAfee, and his executive advisor Jimmy Gale Watson Jr for cryptocurrency fraud and money laundering. In total, McAfee, Watson, and other members of the McAfee Team were able to collect over $13 million from two cryptocurrency pump-and-dump schemes, according to court documents….
UK: Sacked computer hacker gets new job helping Northumbria Police fight cyber crime
Sophie Doughty reports: Sacked for hacking into his employer’s system, computer whizz Tom Johnson’s skills could have ruined his life. […] Now Tom is working with Northumbria Police’s cyber crime cops to help educate youngsters about breaking the law online. And he hopes he can help computer whizz kids put their talents to good use, instead of…