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Android Ransomware Locks Phone and Asks for Credit Card Number
BleepingComputer A new ransomware family is targeting Android devices, locking access to the screen, and constantly pestering the user to enter his payment card details. According to Fortinet researcher Kai Lu, the one who discovered this new threat, the ransomware … |
Of course, in the digital world, anyone can claim to be anyone. Yet a person claiming to be the IT director of a medical marijuana dispensary took to Slashdot in hopes of receiving legal advice after the point of sale system the MMJ used was hacked.
Denver-based MJ Freeway, a medical marijuana “seed-to-sale” tracking software company experienced a “service interruption” – that turned out to be a hack – a week ago on January 8. The hack of the point-of-sale system left more than 1,000 retail cannabis clients in 23 states unable to track sales and inventories. Without a way to keep records in order to comply with state regulations, some dispensaries shut down, while others reverted to tracking sales via pen and paper.
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EFF asks court to let American sue Ethiopia for hacking his computer …
Boing Boing Since 2014, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been representing "Mr Kidane," an Ethiopian-born US citizen whose computer the Ethiopian government … Ethiopia Claims Immunity in Illegally Wiretapping American Skype … |
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EFF asks court to let American sue Ethiopia for hacking his computer and rounding up his friends
Boing Boing The Ethiopian government doesn't deny that it hacked Mr Kidane using Finspy, a commercial law-enforcement tool sold by western companies to repressive governments around the world (Ethiopia doesn't have a very sophisticated domestic IT capacity, but it … |