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Two former federal agents who investigated the Silk Road, the infamous online drug marketplace seized by the FBI in 2013, have been charged for their own outrageous digital crimes, including stealing money they acquired on their druggie undercover assignment.. Former DEA officer Carl Mark Force IV and former Secret Service agent Shaun Bridges, both part of a Baltimore-based task force devoted to taking down the Silk Road, are accused of wire fraud and money laundering. Force is also accused of theft of government property. The link for this article located at gizmodo is no longer available. . Former federal agents are implicated in embezzlement of assets linked to the Silk Road investigation, underscoring a troubling misuse of authority.. Silk Road Investigation, Federal Agents, Digital Crime, Law Enforcement Ethics. . Dave Wreski
Three California men have pleaded guilty charges they built a network of CAPTCHA-solving computers that flooded online ticket vendors and snatched up the very best seats for Bruce Springsteen concerts, Broadway productions and even TV tapings of Dancing with the Stars.. The men ran a company called Wiseguy Tickets, and for years they had an inside track on some of the best seats in the house at many events. They scored about 1.5 million tickets after hiring Bulgarian programmers to build "a nationwide network of computers that impersonated individual visitors" on websites such as Ticketmaster, MLB.com and LiveNation, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said Thursday in a press release. Kenneth Lowson, Kristofer Kirsch, and Joel Stevenson pleaded guilty to hacking and wire fraud charges Thursday in U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. Lowell and Kirsch face a maximum of five years in prison. Stevenson, who pleaded guilty to just one count of hacking, faces a year. They had been indicted in February and are now set to be sentenced on March 15, 2011. The link for this article located at Network World is no longer available. . Men from California convicted for creating a botnet that evaded CAPTCHA measures to facilitate ticket scalping operations.. CAPTCHA-busting, Ticket Scalping, Botnet Network, Hacking Fraud, Wiseguy Tickets. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
U.S. federal authorities arrested a 26-year-old man on Thursday for allegedly selling modified cable modems that enabled free Internet access, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Matthew Delorey of New Bedford, Connecticut, is charged with one count of conspiracy and one count of wire fraud. If convicted, he could face up to 20 years in prison for each charge, and a $250,000 fine.. Delorey allegedly ran a now-defunct Web site called Massmodz.com, where hacked modems were sold. The modems had been modified in order to spoof the device's MAC (Media Access Control) address. It is possible then to either obtain free Internet access or make it appear that a different modem is obtaining access. Authorities alleged that Delorey sold two of the modified modems to an undercover agent of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation. The videos Delorey allegedly posted to YouTube showing how to get free Internet access through modified cable modems probably won't help his case. The link for this article located at PC World is no longer available. . Delorey allegedly ran a now-defunct Web site called Massmodz.com, where hacked modems were sold. The site facilitated fraud.. federal, authorities, arrested, 26-year-old, thursday, allegedly, selling, modified, cable. . Alex
A fourth man has been arrested as part of the largest identity theft case in U.S. history. Federal officials say Emanuel S. Ezediaro is charged with buying and selling credit reports of tens of thousands of people. If convicted of wire . . . . A fourth man has been arrested as part of the largest identity theft case in U.S. history. Federal officials say Emanuel S. Ezediaro is charged with buying and selling credit reports of tens of thousands of people. If convicted of wire fraud and conspiracy, he could get up to 35 years in prison and more than $1 million in fines. One of his alleged co-conspirators, Philip Cummings, will be arraigned on Wednesday. This column, which was written when the case was made public, explains how the fraud was carried out and what consumers can do to protect themselves. The link for this article located at CNN is no longer available. . A fourth man has been arrested as part of the largest identity theft case in U.S. history. Federal o. fourth, arrested, largest, identity, theft, history, federal. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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