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January 31, 2020

Iowa Prosecutors Drop Charges Against Men Hired to Test Their Security

This post was originally published on this siteOn Sept. 11, 2019, two security experts at a company that had been hired by the state of Iowa to test the physical and network security of its judicial system were arrested while probing the security of an Iowa county courthouse, jailed in orange jumpsuits, charged with burglary, and held on $100,000 bail. On Thursday Jan. 30, prosecutors in Iowa announced they had dropped the criminal charges. The news came while KrebsOnSecurity was conducting a video interview with the two accused (featured below). The courthouse in Dallas County, Iowa. Image: Wikipedia. Gary DeMercurio, 43 […]
June 30, 2020

COVID-19 ‘Breach Bubble’ Waiting to Pop?

This post was originally published on this siteThe COVID-19 pandemic has made it harder for banks to trace the source of payment card data stolen from smaller, hacked online merchants. On the plus side, months of quarantine have massively decreased demand for account information that thieves buy and use to create physical counterfeit credit cards. But fraud experts say recent developments suggest both trends are about to change — and likely for the worse. The economic laws of supply and demand hold just as true in the business world as they do in the cybercrime space. Global lockdowns from COVID-19 […]