A court in Dusseldorf, Germany, has convicted a man who extorted money out of online gambling websites in the run-up to the 2010 Football World Cup in South Africa. The Frankfurt man, who has not been identified, successfully blackmailed three online betting sites (and attempted to extort money from three others) by threatening them with […]
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LulzSec? Hackers? Here’s a real challenge…
As fellow Naked Security commentator Graham Cluley already reported, the latest news from media-savvy “fun-hacking” crew LulzSec is that it organised a Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS) against the cia.gov website, sporadically making it slow, unresponsive or inaccessible. This is the latest in a slew of “hacks” mounted by the group, whose recent targets […]
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