Australia to auction seized Bitcoins
Australia will conduct its first ever auction of Bitcoins confiscated by law enforcement authorities and become the second country ever to do so.
Andrew Colley | 31 May | Read more
Australia will conduct its first ever auction of Bitcoins confiscated by law enforcement authorities and become the second country ever to do so.
Andrew Colley | 31 May | Read more
The holiday season always brings its share of security warnings and actual threats – and this year was no exception. DDoS attacks were threatening retailers' profits but Australia's mobile-using shoppers were |creating even more problems for themselves, experts warned. Little wonder companies were scrambling to fix the lack of encryption on mobile apps.
David Braue | 14 Dec | Read more
Pro tip for any would-be online drug kingpins: Don't post vacation pictures on Facebook.
Joab Jackson | 10 Feb | Read more
Health insurer gets hacked ... Twitter's Costolo says the trolls are out ... Silk Road mastermind is guilty ... and more news
IDG News Service staff | 05 Feb | Read more
Chat logs and other digital records entered into evidence in a federal court case Monday detailed how the operators of the infamous Silk Road underground online marketplace planned to have individuals murdered for potentially disclosing the identities of those who used the anonymous site.
Joab Jackson | 03 Feb | Read more
The un-doing of the dark-web drugs bazaar, Silk Road, was a misconfigured security feature on the site that was meant to prevent bots from signing up, according to the FBI.
The Tor network is in danger of being swamped by criminals abusing its anonymity to hide an underworld of parasitic botnets, malicious command and control and ‘darknet' markets, according to research from Kaspersky Lab.
John E Dunn | 06 Mar | Read more
The Dutch National Police seized the hidden market place Utopia, which was used to sell illegal goods, the Dutch Public Prosecution Service said Tuesday.
Loek Essers | 11 Feb | Read more