[ad] Today’s news is that a company in the US has been using CAPTCHA breaking technology to run a very profitable ticket scalping operation. Reports state they netted a $25 Million USD profit over a 6 year period, which is an industry is extremely lucrative especially for a reasonably small operation. Of course they way […]
Legal Issues
Former Dark Market Admin Faces 10 Year Jail Sentence
[ad] You may remember a while back in 2008 it was uncovered (at least publically) that DarkMarket was actually an FBI Sting Operation. Insiders had apparently known since 2006 that one of the admins was actually an undercover FBI agent. Countless cases have gone to court with the evidence and contacts gathered in the DarkMarket […]
Home Secretary says McKinnon must face US trial
[ad] Since the last update almost a year ago when Gary won the right to appeal against extradition, the latest news in the Gary Mckinnon saga is that his extradition to the US for trial will be going ahead. Even with his apparent medical condition of Ass Burgers Asperger’s it seems he will be extradited […]
One Of The World’s Most Prolific Music Piracy Groups Busted
[ad] Seems like the Feds have been busy in recent year, all kinds of hackers, phishers an dnow pirates are getting arrested and imprisoned for some serious jailtime. The latest in this strung of busts is the music piracy ground RNS or Rabid Neurosis, very eminent in the scene in the late 90s/early 2000s. With […]
TJX Hacker Albert “Segvec” Gonzalez Indicted By Federal Grand Jury
[ad] We’ve been following the whole TJX saga for quite some time now since way back in September 2007 when the hack became public as the Largest Breach of Customer Data in U.S. History and in August 2008 when the TJX Credit Card Hackers Got Busted. The legal system has ticked along and now they […]