According to many reports, this is part of a campaign targeted at current and former mobile carrier workers who could have access to the systems required to perform a SIM swap.
Second album is collaration with former Monkeys bassist Andy Nicholson aka Gold Teeth Good Cop Bad Cop’s Joe Carnell is a long-time darling of the Sheffield music scene, starting life in the band Milburn. Having initally teamed up with Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders to form Good Cop Bad Cop and release an eponymous debut […]
Apr 13, 2024NewsroomCryptocurrency / Regulatory Compliance A former security engineer has been sentenced to three years in prison in the U.S. for charges relating to hacking two decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges in July 2022 and stealing over $12.3 million. Shakeeb Ahmed, the defendant in question, pled guilty to one count of computer fraud in December 2023 […]
Apr 13, 2024NewsroomCryptocurrency / Regulatory Compliance A former security engineer has been sentenced to three years in prison in the U.S. for charges relating to hacking two decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges in July 2022 and stealing over $12.3 million. Shakeeb Ahmed, the defendant in question, pled guilty to one count of computer fraud in December 2023 […]
Former Google engineer Linwei Ding has been charged with stealing trade secrets related to artificial intelligence (AI) and supercomputing data centres while secretly working for Chinese companies.
A previously unpublished interview with the former Can frontman Fortune favours the brave, they say. Although they also say that you should never meet your idols. Luckily, in retrospect, when you’re a journalist scouring a backstage bar with your director and camera person in tow, and you bump into the lead singer of one of […]
The Pentagon is in the process of alerting an undisclosed number of current and former employees, job applicants and partners that their sensitive personal information may have been exposed online in a “data breach incident” that was first detected in early 2023. DefenseScoop viewed a notice — dated Feb. 1, 2024 and sent by the […]
Feb 02, 2024NewsroomNational Security / Data Breach A former software engineer with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been sentenced to 40 years in prison by the Southern District of New York (SDNY) for transmitting classified documents to WikiLeaks and for possessing child pornographic material. Joshua Adam Schulte, 35, was originally charged in June […]
Over the past year we’ve seen Uber’s former chief security officer convicted in federal court for mishandling a data breach, a federal regulator charge SolarWinds’ security chief with allegedly misleading investors prior to its own cyberattack and new regulations that compel companies to publicly reveal materially impactful data breaches within four business days. It might […]