Een 37-jarige man uit Leeuwarden is veroordeeld tot een gevangenisstraf van vier jaar, waarvan een jaar voorwaardelijk, voor het ontwikkelen van webshops met een backdoor, waardoor hij gebruikersnamen en wachtwoorden van klanten van deze shops in handen kreeg en hier vervolgens mee fraudeerde.

De verdachte bood zichzelf bij bedrijven aan als websitebouwer. Voor diverse bedrijven ontwikkelde hij een webshopm, waar een script aan was toegevoegd waardoor hij alle gebruikersnamen en wachtwoorden van klanten van deze shops ontving.

Die inloggegevens werden vervolgens gebruikt om in te breken in mail- en socialmedia-accounts van klanten.

Van kinderpornonetwerken en identiteitsfraude tot virussen die je computer kapen. Opeens is cybercrime een ernstige bedreiging voor onze samenleving. Hoogleraar Wouter Stol vertelt hoe we daar met z’n allen iets aan kunnen doen. ‘Dit is te groot om alleen aan de politie over te laten.’

Hoogleraar Wouter Stol werkte ruim tien jaar als politiechef en inspecteur bij de Amsterdamse politie. Daar maakte hij de opmars van de computer mee, en later van het begrip cybercrime.

Na een deeltijdstudie sociologie promoveerde hij in 1996 op zijn onderzoek ‘Politie-optreden en informatietechnologie’. Inmiddels is Stol lector Cybersafety aan de Politieacademie en bijzonder hoogleraar Politiestudies aan de Open Universiteit (OU).

Security researcher Marcus Brinkmann has turned up another vulnerability in the GnuPG cryptographic library, this time specific to the Simple Password Store.

Brinkmann explained that CVE-2018-12356 offers both access to passwords and possible remote code execution.

This bug is an incomplete regex in GnuPG's signature verification routine, meaning an attacker can spoof file signatures on configuration files and extension scripts (Brinkmann has dubbed the bug “SigSpoof 3” as the third signature spoofing bug he's found).

A woman has fessed up to using people's personal information, leaked online from the US government's Office of Personnel Management mega-hack, to take out loans and open bank accounts.

Karvia Cross, 39, of Bowie, Maryland, USA, pleaded guilty on Monday in the eastern district of Virginia to one count of identity theft and conspiracy to commit bank fraud. She faces anywhere from two to 30 years when sentenced this Fall.

Cross admitted to working with other fraudsters – five more people were charged in the case and one person beside Cross has already pleaded guilty – to use the names, dates of birth, and social security numbers of strangers to apply for and receive loans from the Langley Federal Credit Union in Virginia.

The online world is full of threats — some are quite obvious, while others, like trojans and crypto-lockers, are complicated, less well known and are often incredibly insidious.

Protecting your PC and all your personal data contained within is a constantly changing task and, often, the hardest part of increasing your security is knowing where to start. So what threats do you face? And what can you do to mitigate these dangers safely and pre-emptively?

To start with, we should discuss the types of threats most commonly faced by individuals, where there is overlap and what each threat does and hopes to achieve. Understanding this will make your job a lot easier.

Thought global arms races are all about ballistic missiles, space or nuclear development? Think again: the new diplomatic frontline is over processing power and computer chips.

A major shift has taken place, with a new claimant to the crown of world’s fastest supercomputer. IMB’s Summit at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee uses Power9 CPUs and NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs and has 4,068 servers powered by ten petabytes of memory working concurrently to process 200,000 trillion calculations per second – 200 petaflops.

That’s a lot of numbers – and here’s one more. Summit’s processing power is 117 petaflops more than the previous record-holder, China’s TaihuLight.

Children will stop seeing adverts for gun accessories on Facebook as it updates its policy from 21 June.

Currently, ads for scopes, holsters, gun-mounted lights, slings, sights, belt extras, safes and many other items can be seen by anyone using Facebook.

Facebook said the decision followed a "regular review" of its policies. But Tech news site The Verge speculated that the move was connected to renewed focus on gun violence in the US following a spate of school shootings.

The flying cars promised in movies like Blade Runner and Back to the Future may be closer than you think - if Uber has its way.

The tech giant plans to connect the whole of the UK with ‘flying taxi’ drones which do not require massive changes to infrastructure like those seen in projects such as HS2.

Uber has invested £17 million into a flying vehicle research facility in Paris, its first R&D centre outside the US, as it looks to begin uberAIR commercial operations in three major cities within five years.