extortion

Only since they announced Win8 and the SCo-Linux debacles, have I predicted that 1) Windows would go pay-per-view Windows-as-a-service, and 2) they would roll Linux into the OS, possibly turning the OS into a version of Linux. Seems like it's gonna come true. Imagine that.

Sextortion scammers sent multiple organizations emails containing bomb threats yesterday. The perpetrators threatened to injure multitudes of people in the buildings where the emails were opened, if their demands for a $20,000 Bitcoin payment were not met. Previously these sextortion emails...

Here's an interesting piece over at techdirt that explains how liability for copyrighted material on media platforms can be abused to get rid of content that's not really copyrighted. To hear the RIAA/MPAAs of the world, we need to weaken protections for platforms to help artists. Yet, here is...

It has been a couple years since the Ashley Madison data breach took place and it seems to have been back in the news for a while, but this was my first time seeing this. While cybercriminals tend to use the internet for their nefarious purposes, this time they are taking a page out of the Pony...