A Ukrainian carder who earned more than $11 million selling credit and debit card data stolen from top U.S. retailers was lured to a meeting in Turkey in 2007 where he was arrested by local authorities, according to a new report released Wednesday. Maksym Yastremskiy, alleged to be the underground carding kingpin known as “Maksik,” was sentenced to 30 years in a Turkish prison. He was a key player in the criminal ring…  Read More →

Six men were discovered bound in a car car near Chilpancingo, Guerrero Mexico next to a not that read  “This will happen to all rapists, extortionists and kidnappers. Attentively, the New Cartel of the Sierra”. Although the killings in Mexico do not come as a surprise, Mexican authorities are investigating the possible emergence of a This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is... 

He didn’t speak with the voice of James Earl Jones or wield a light saber. But a 6-foot-tall man dressed as Darth Vader wasn’t playing games when he flashed a handgun and demanded that a New York bank teller fork over the loot. The unidentified Darth Vader got away Thursday from a Chase Bank branch in Suffolk County with an undisclosed amount of cash stuffed into a sack adorned with a New York Yankees logo, police said. A bank patron,... 

Blogging platform Blogetery.com was cut off by its hosting company last week after the authorities said al-Qaida “terrorist material” was found on one of its servers, said a statement from web host BurstNET Technologies Monday. Blogetery, a platform for some 70,000 blogs, was taken down by BurstNET after the Federal Bureau of Investigation asked BurstNET “ to provide information regarding ownership ” of the server hosting... 

A California court has granted the request of local prosecutors to withdraw a controversial search warrant against an editor for the tech site Gizmodo over its scoop about the iPhone 4G. Prosecutors reached an agreement with Thomas Nolan, the attorney representing Gizmodo and reporter Jason Chen, to return a computer and other seized items in exchange for “all of the materials in the computer sought by our investigators,” San Mateo... 

Prosecutors in a New Jersey ticket scalping case are pushing the envelope on the federal computer hacking law, setting a precedent that could make it a felony to violate a website’s terms of service and fool a CAPTCHA, according to electronic civil rights groups intervening in the case. At issue is a four-month-old criminal prosecution against the online ticket-reselling business Wiseguy Tickets , which allegedly used a network of shell... 

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) reversed itself today, announcing that it will no longer block TSA employees, using work computers, from accessing websites that contain a “controversial opinion.” As CBS News first reported, the TSA on Friday informed its employees that five categories of websites would be off-limits because they were deemed “inappropriate for government This story comes to us via Homeland Security... 

A U.S. Army intelligence analyst suspected of leaking videos and documents to Wikileaks was charged Monday with eight violations of federal criminal law, including unauthorized computer access, and transmitting classified information to an unauthorized third party. Pfc. Bradley Manning, 22, was charged with two counts under the Uniform Code of Military Justice: one encompassing the eight alleged criminal offenses, and a second…  Read More →

A gang of unknown thieves has stolen nearly $10 million using micro charges made to more than a million credit and debit cards in an elaborate multiyear scam, according to a lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission in March. Have any of these company names appeared on your bank card statement? The FTC says they were front companies used by scammers to make nearly $10 million in charges to consumer credit and debit card accounts. (FTC v.... 

Starbucks is rolling out free, unsecured Wi-Fi access at about 7,000 coffee shops across the United States beginning July 1. But will there be packet-sniffing with your latte? The Seattle-based coffee concern’s move to lure customers with free internet comes amid a growing legal uncertainty about privacy on open Wi-Fi networks, kicked off by Google’s admission its Street View cars intercepted data on unsecured Wi-Fi networks in neighborhoods... 

New York’s attorney general Andrew Cuomo accused the social networking site Tagged.com on Thursday of not responding to user reports of child pornography and sexual solicitation of minors, which has allowed the popular site to become a place where sexual predators can exploit children. Cuomo sent a letter to the site, which claims 5 million users. The letter announces his intent to sue the site for violating trade laws by not adhering... 

Federal Bureau of Investigation officials in New York are increasingly employing tools and techniques used to hunt terrorists to take aim at a different kind of criminal: white-collar con artists and inside traders. At a time when the public has grown suspicious of Wall Street and lost confidence in the government’s ability to police it, investigators This story comes  Read More →

Five alleged money mules have been indicted in a bank heist that netted the thieves almost $450,000 from a local-government bank account in California. John L. Quinn II and Anthony Bobbitt, both of North Carolina, were indicted with three others on criminal charges of wire fraud, bank fraud and conspiracy. Quinn and Bobbitt are accused of allowing their U.S. bank accounts to be used to launder fraudulent money transfers to Lance Holt, Deago Smith... 

A former Pennsylvania high school student has sued school and county officials for damages in a controversial sexting case. The student alleges a violation of her constitional rights, in a civil suit filed last week that could serve as a cautionary tale to other officials considering punishing students over risque self-portraits. In the complaint (.pdf) filed in a U.S. District Court in Pennsylvania, the former student — identified only... 

Federal lawmakers are using the purse strings to coax more states into adopting rules that require suspects who are arrested for various crimes — but not charged — to submit to DNA sampling for inclusion into a nationwide database. It doesn’t matter if the suspect was charged or even acquitted. Sponsored by Harry Teague (D-New Mexico), the measure provides $75 million to the nation’s financially broken states —...