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Russian police raid points to MacDefender scam

If you wanted to know who was responsible for all that MacDefender malware nonsense a few months ago, they might have something. After a raid on Russian payment giant Chronopay’s offices, authorities have found evidence linking the company to the MacDefender fake anti-virus scam that targeted Mac users. Per security expert Brian Krebs’ blog post, […]

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iPad hacker faces multiple drug charges, spotty past following FBI arrest

Some hackers just have no luck. Per CNET, one of the hackers in the group that snatched more than 100,000 iPad owner email addresses from AT&T’s servers was arrested Tuesday on felony drug charges after the FBI searched his Arkansas, US home. Andrew “Escher” Auernheimer was arrested by Fayetteville, Ark., police and was booked into […]