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Arrests Made in LulzSec / Anonymous Cases
Fox News is reporting that after Hector Xavier Monsegur, AKA Sabu AKA @AnonymousSabu, a computer hacker associated with the criminal hacking groups Anonymous and LulzSec, was confronted with charges...
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From CSO: There’s No 9-1-1 For Cybercrime
[This ran as an article in CSO Magazine Online] If you work for a large corporation, you hear lots of talk about corporate responsibility, and that’s great. But I can’t help but point out that, whether...
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Anonymous Proxy Hunting: When Bad Guys Don’t Leave You A Map To Their House...
“I’ll create a GUI Interface using Visual Basic so we can track the killer’s IP address.” Let’s say some bad guys have stolen some credit card or bank account details and they’re using them to make a...
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II: Conceptual Issues for Congress and LE on Cybercrime
I’m at a conference in Philadelphia today on Organized Retail Crime (an area I’m becoming increasingly passionate about) but I wanted to mention the publication by the Congressional News Service of an...
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Cyber-Criminal OPSEC – a Three-Part Series. Part I: IP Addresses
This is Part I of a Three-Part Series on Cyber-criminal Operational Security. Part II is here. Part III is here. Recently, when speaking of a cyber case, I said that if your criminals have got an IQ of...
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Cyber-Criminal OPSEC – a Three-Part Series. Part III: TTTP
In Part I of this three-part series, we discussed the most basic of attribution methods, IP address analysis. In Part II, we talked about computer environmentals, and how it’s possible to build a...
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HighRoller and CarderProfit: A Tale Of Two S#1tties
From Guardian Analytics/McAfee Report on Operation High Roller Two significant cybercrime stories are making the rounds: the roll-up of an international sting against carders (see below) and details of...
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Cybercrime Statistics: What Are The Chinese Counting?
Over the weekend I read a piece in the US version of China Daily on some of the cyber crime issues being faced by China. The article reveals some interesting statistics about what China considers to be...
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Federal Court: Location Tracking via Cell-Phone Pinging is Kosher
The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has ruled that police may track the signals eminating from wireless devices, such as cell phones, owned by a person. In United States v Skinner,...
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CBKB Nominated for Innovating Justice Award
This morning I saw that the folks over at the Cost-Benefit Knowledge Bank for Criminal Justice (CBKB) have been nominated for an Innovating Justice Award. Before I talk about the IJA, let me just...
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Strikeback! Commission on IP Theft Report Gets All Ronin On China
A bipartisan group that studies the effects and impacts of IP theft in the US, The Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property, has released a report outlining their findings on the scope...
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Big Ears, Little Ears: One article, three layers of blown secrecy, and how...
Today’s guest post is from Eric Olson, author of the Digital Water blog and a previous contributor to PLI. Well, I haven’t had much time to write here for quite a while, but the Edward Snowden affair –...
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Banning Feds From DefCon Is Self Defeating. Here’s Why.
If you’re not familiar with DefCon, the hacker confab that has been meeting in Vegas for more than 20 years, you’re not paying attention to hacking. DefCon (and the accompanying conferences like...
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A New Hope…
Dave Aitel has graciously allowed us to run his commentaries before – see Hackers May Help Choose The Next US President and Aitel On Cyberwar. Dave is the founder and Chief...
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