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Crypto Exchange Kraken Denies Rumor of Office Closure, Security Breach

Posted on September 6, 2018 by Dissent

Wolfie Zhao reports: U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has denied a rumor that has emerged on social media claiming the firm is shutting down operations at one of its service centers amid a security issue. Reddit user “throwaway34034324” posted a thread on Thursday claiming that the exchange is closing operations in Halifax, Canada, and has “just laid off…

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ZW: Computers with Criminal Records Stolen from Gutu Magistrate’s Court

Posted on July 6, 2017 by Dissent

Terrence Mawawa reports: Daring robbers broke into the office of Gutu Magistrate, Edwin Marecha, and stole two computers. […] According to sources at the Gutu Magistrates’ Court, the robbers targeted the two computers only- indicating a likelihood that they probably were after destroying criminal records and related evidence. Read more on ZimEye.

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Lone hacktivists persist, but are they making a difference?

Posted on February 21, 2017 by Dissent

Sometime around June, 2015, a hacktivist who calls himself @ElSurveillance on Twitter began defacing web sites of escort services. In July, 2015, I became aware of him and began reporting on his attacks, which usually include messages left on the sites about how the service and conduct is an affront to Islam. To get an idea…

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218,000 AlphaBay marketplace users’ private messages acquired by bug hunter

Posted on January 24, 2017 by Dissent

If you’re a darknet vendor who has the skills to really test the security of marketplaces where you might hawk your wares, what do you do? Well, if you’re a vendor known as “Cipher0007” on reddit, and you find problems, you try to alert the marketplace, and then go public if they don’t respond promptly. This…

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As databases from old hacks appear, they also go up for sale

Posted on September 6, 2016 by Dissent

The free market system might appear to be alive and well on the dark web. As sites like LeakedSource add newly leaked databases from hacks in 2012-2015, we are also likely to find the databases up for sale on sites like dark web marketplaces. For current examples, see the listings for the Dropbox database and BitcoinTalk forum database:…

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To the anonymous researchers who contacted me

Posted on June 20, 2016 by Dissent

Several weeks ago, I reported that some researchers had contacted me anonymously to give me a slew of vulnerabilities they had uncovered in their research. As a result of the FBI’s over-the-top raid on Justin Shafer, they had become scared of trying to notify entities of what they had found. They left it up to me to decide…

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