A Texas man was charged Monday by the U.S. Department of Justice with helping to inflate the prices of penny stock companies by promoting them with a spam-spewing botnet of hacked computers. Christopher Rad, of Cedar Park, Texas, faces a maximum senten…
Romanian middleman pleads guilty to $2.7m auction scam
‘Buy it now’ scammer going down
A Romanian native faces jail in the US after pleading guilty to participating in a $2.7m online marketplace scam.…
Apple may cut out carrier middleman with custom SIM chip
Apple may be attempting to embed a custom, writeable SIM chip in future iPhones according to a report by GigaOm. The SIM module could enable Apple to sell iPhones directly to users with little or no direct carrier involvement.
According to GigaOm’s so…
Latest Malware Trap: Bogus Celebrity Deaths
After mastering the art of rigging search engine results to spread malware when breaking news and celebrity gossip is trending hot, hackers have decided to just cut out the middleman.
