FBI arrests 24 in internet credit card fraud ring

The FBI charged 28 and arrested 24 in the bust of a major internet credit card fraud ring today. The accused were involved in a large variety of fraud schemes involving 411,000 credit cards and over $205 million.

Hacking businesses via your iPad can be all fun and games

Limit your malicious hacking to entertaining games like Uplink. At least there you’re not doing any real harm, and aren’t going to end up behind bars.

NJ mayor and son arrested for hacking site criticizing their administration

New Jersey town mayor was arrested on Thursday for allegedly hacking into a site that criticized his administration and intimidating individuals associated with it. You couldn’t make this stuff up…

What the FBI didn’t tell us about the hotel malware threat

Do you use the internet in hotels when travelling abroad? Do you think it’s safe to do so?

The FBI thinks you should be careful.. but is being surprisingly coy about the details.

Google coder behind Street View data breach named

The New York Times claims to have uncovered the identity of the Google software engineer who wrote the code used by Street View cars when they controversially scooped up private Wi-Fi data including emails, text messages, browsing histories and passwords.

Facebook Confidential: How the Craigslist killer manhunt exposed personal details of the innocent

If the police come a-knocking, Facebook may be forced to send someone’s entire account activity over. And there’s a lot of it.

And it might include data about you.

”Pimpin aint easy!’ Google subpoenaed by FBI to access a pimp’s pattern-locked Samsung smartphone

The story of the Pimpin Hoes Daily gang founder Dante Dears, his pattern-locked Samsung phone, the feds, google, and subpoenas. Why couldn’t the FBI get into the locked phone? Get the popcorn – this is interesting.

Google: 130 million scam ads axed in 2011

You think malvertising’s bad on Google now? It used to be a whole lot worse.

Anonymous OS – you’d be crazy to trust it

Proceed with caution if you’re thinking of downloading and installing Anonymous OS, the purported new operating system from the Anonymous collective.