Rep. Katherine Clark Wants to Put $20 Million Toward Combatting Cybercrime
During a panel at SXSW on Saturday, Rep. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) introduced a proposal for a bill that would devote $20 million to prosecuting cybercrime.
The Best Tweets From Pinterest Butt Hack 2014
Twitter users have responded to yesterday's Pinterest hacking and everyone is in agreement—it was hilarious.
Miss Teen USA Is the Latest Victim of Webcam 'Sextortion'
The FBI is investigating claims that newly-crowned Miss Teen USA Cassidy Wolf and several other women have been taken in by wiley sextortionists — a silly-sounding portmanteau, a scary-as-shit reality where hackers infiltrate women's webcams, surreptitiously photograph them in various states of undress, and then try…
Hells Bells
Some 6,000 brides-to-be and vendors were taken in by a website advertising a fake wedding convention in Boston. Police say the thieves probably made at least $50,000 through the scam. The FBI Cyber Crime Unit is investigating. [BostonGlobe]
