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February 17, 2017

Men Who Sent Swat Team, Heroin to My Home Sentenced

This post was originally published on this siteIt’s been a remarkable week for cyber justice. On Thursday, a Ukrainian man who hatched a plan in 2013 to send heroin to my home and then call the cops when the drugs arrived was sentenced to 41 months in prison for unrelated cybercrime charges. Separately, a 19-year-old American who admitted to being part of a hacker group that sent a heavily-armed police force to my home in 2013 was sentenced to three years probation. Sergei “Fly” Vovnenko, in an undated photo. In a letter to this author following his arrest, Vovnenko said […]

February 26, 2018

USPS Finally Starts Notifying You by Mail If Someone is Scanning Your Snail Mail Online

This post was originally published on this siteIn October 2017, KrebsOnSecurity warned that ne’er-do-wells could take advantage of a relatively new service offered by the U.S. Postal Service that provides scanned images of all incoming mail before it is slated to arrive at its destination address. We advised that stalkers or scammers could abuse this service by signing up as anyone in the household, because the USPS wasn’t at that point set up to use its own unique communication system — the U.S. mail — to alert residents when someone had signed up to receive these scanned images. Image: USPS The […]