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Analysis: Is Wikileaks' Assange actually a terrorist?
Is, in fact, Julian Assange a terrorist? Or is he something else?
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FBI nab cyber-extortionist who sought $3 million from NY insurance firm
David Letterman faced a 2 million dollar extortion attempt in October of last year. Chump change for some criminals.
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Student file sharers allegedly extorted
An Internet security analyst, was in charge of tracking illegal file sharing at the University of Georgia until he allegedly tried to shake down the student downloaders he caught.
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Online extortion battle takes a mortal hit
Blue Security had attempted to battle online extortion and spam by bombarding spammers with email from all 522,000 of its clients. Then the spammer flooded Blue Security with so much Internet...
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Extortion failed - Anonymous posts Symantec source code
Anonymous activists have released source code for Symantec's PCAnywhere onto the Pirate Bay file-sharing website after an extortion attempt apparently failed.
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Analysis: Is Wikileaks' Assange actually a terrorist?
Is, in fact, Julian Assange a terrorist? Or is he something else?
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DDoS extortion-themed scam circulating
Symantec has intercepted a scam attempt, relying on scare tactics in order to trick domain owners into transferring virtual money, or face a distributed denial of service attack against their web...
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Kin network pricing is youth extortion: $85 a month
The KIN One and Two, Microsoft's new youth-aimed smartphones, are the best smartphones you'll never buy. Why? Because it'll cost you $85 a month for two painful years.
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FBI nab cyber-extortionist who sought $3 million from NY insurance firm
David Letterman faced a 2 million dollar extortion attempt in October of last year. Chump change for some criminals.
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Student file sharers allegedly extorted
An Internet security analyst, was in charge of tracking illegal file sharing at the University of Georgia until he allegedly tried to shake down the student downloaders he caught.
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How to recover GPcode encrypted files?
Got backups? In response to the security community's comments on the futile attempt to directly attack the 1024 bit RSA keys using distributed computing, Kaspersky Labs are now reasonably...
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Who's behind the GPcode ransomware?
In one of these moments when those who are supposed to know, don't know, and those who don't realize what they know aren't reaching the appropriate parties, it's time we get back to the basics -...
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Ransomware fun: Pay by phone extortion (these guys can't spell either)
A Trojan is delivering an unpleasant surprise: Ransomware that takes over your desktop unless you fork over $35. The trojan--Backdoor.Win32.Delf.ctk--was highlighted Dec. 31 by Sunbelt Software...
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FBI warns of twist in extortion phishing scam
Pay no attention to e-mails, purportedly from the FBI in London, stating you were next on a murderer's hit list.
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Teens arrested in alleged MySpace extortion scam
Two N.Y. teens are charged with threatening the popular Web site with malicious code and attempting to extort $150,000.
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Online extortion battle takes a mortal hit
Blue Security had attempted to battle online extortion and spam by bombarding spammers with email from all 522,000 of its clients. Then the spammer flooded Blue Security with so much Internet...
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Trojan Cryzip extorts decryption fee
A new Trojan encrypts files, then demands $300 in ransom for their decryption and release, according to security firm.
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Expert: Online extortion growing more common
"Every online gambling site is paying extortion," says Alan Paller of the SANS Institute.
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411 hot air--legalized extortion?
Commentary--Perhaps there was a legitimate reason to approve the Wireless 411 Privacy Act. But so far, nobody's suggested one.
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Man arrested for allegedly extorting Google
A California man has been charged with extortion, after reportedly making demands for $100,000 from the search giant, in exchange for not unleashing fake ad hits.
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