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Obama’s $1 trillion estimate on hacking damages way off, McAfee claims
President Obama and other government officials often stress that the global cost of hacking is $1 trillion. That’s a major exaggeration according to a preliminary report on a new study underwritten by...
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The blockbuster heist that rocked the Deep Web
A story about how the popular hacking and fraud forum HackBB was taken down twice this year: Before he gutted and nearly destroyed one of the most influential criminal markets on the Internet, a man...
View ArticleDoes Silk Road do “between $30 million and $45 million” in business per year?
A story on just how big Silk Road has become over the past year: It’s not hard to guess that running the world’s most notorious online market for illegal drugs is big business, with millions changing...
View ArticleAfter Snowden leaks, daily adoption rate of PGP encryption triples
I wrote another story over at Daily Dot: Kristian Fiskerstrand’s sks-keyservers.net tracks the status and statistics of over 80 keyservers around the world. According his data, new keys were being...
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How cybercriminals use major news events to attack you
A big news story always attracts big crowds. Inevitably, those crowds attract criminals looking to take advantage of the distracted and excited. Cybercriminals are no different. They keep their finger...
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Apparent U.S. crackdown cripples Dark Web’s pedophile communities
“He is not a ‘[child porn] host’ like the media tells you but a host without rules on which people from around the world hosted all kinds of websites,” wrote one user in an emblematic discussion...
View ArticleHow to communicate on Tor in a post-Tor Mail world
Tor Mail is likely done. What’s next? Here’s a list of 12 services that will inherit Tor Mail users In the recent fall of Freedom Hosting, a hosting service used by much of the Dark Net, the list of...
View ArticleA tourist’s guide to Tor, the gateway to the Dark Web
Until just a few weeks ago, Freedom Hosting was the biggest hosting service for sites that hid behind the anonymizing software of Tor—what’s known as the Dark Web. After Freedom Hosting shut down last...
View ArticleTeens on Tumblr can’t stop bragging about Silk Road drug deals
Silk Road is so successful at this point that teenagers are flooding in to take advantage of the easy-to-use black market. Some Silk Road users are indistinguishable from kids in a candy store, so...
View ArticleOwnership of the online black market Silk Road is being passed around from...
Ownership of the online black market Silk Road is being passed around from person to person, the current owner revealed in an interview with Forbes’ Andy Greenberg, published Wednesday. “[Dread Pirate]...
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