What’s a stolen credit card number worth and how does it get marketed? That’s answered by Brian Krebs in this nice overview of the digital black market. Krebs always seems to do a great job rolling up information about some topic, and this article is no exception.
It would appear the Snowden debate is continuing to heat up and take to Twitter after an exclusive interview with Brian Williams this week. This is the first measurable sense I’ve seen on the internet for an actual number guestimate as to whether the American people view Snowden as a traitor or patriot.
Over 90 people related to the malware known as Blackshades have been arrested. This malware hijacks webcams, steals passwords and accesses private documents.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/19/justice/us-global-hacker-crackdown/
In an open letter to President Obama, Cisco’s CEO asks that the US not erode international trust in US high tech exports by introducing spyware en route. The allegation of this practice arose from materials released by the Snowden document dump. Apparently China’s practice – of which we have reported in the past – was not unique in the world.
Especially for our students of privacy, here is a surveillance operation done in part the old fashioned way, but boosted with some tech as well.
… and became an FBI target.
Quoting the article about one of the several hackings that took place on our campus, “David Helkowski set out to be a whistle-blower; he now faces the feds and unemployment.“