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Https://twitter.com/Cy63rp0isoN/status/507265728547147776 Well, as everyone in the known universe knows by now, Facebook was down yesterday for a period of time between 15 and 30 minutes, during which the world collectively lost its shit and dug out its dormant Twitter accounts to bitch about the state of affairs. It's often difficult to determine causality, much less…

Singer Taylor Swift once gave it back to the hackers after they threatened her with n*de photo leaks way back in 2015. Read for more.

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Happy Friday, TGIF, and all that, kittens! We are at last all caught up on our sleep from the two all-nighters we've pulled this week, and today's articles should blow the doors off, so stand by. In the meanwhile, here are your top news links to keep you busy, entertained, and well-informed until those fascinating articles…

Julius "Zeekill" Kivimäki, a 25-year-old Finnish man charged with extorting a local online psychotherapy practice and leaking therapy notes for more than 22,000 patients online, was arrested this week in France. A notorious hacker convicted of perpetrating tens of thousands…

In a win for Internet trolls and teenage cybercriminals everywhere, a Finnish court has decided not to incarcerate a 17-year-old found guilty of more than 50,000 cybercrimes, including data breaches, payment fraud, operating a huge botnet and calling in bomb…

Two days ago, attackers allegedly associated with the fame-seeking group Lizard Squad briefly hijacked Google's Vietnam domain (google.com.vn). On Wednesday, Lenovo.com was similarly attacked. Sources now tell KrebsOnSecurity that both hijacks were possible because the attackers seized control over Webnic.cc,…

You can’t have missed all the controversy surrounding the hacking of Sony Pictures this week, and the affair continues to boil on with a fresh release of supposedly pilfered details pertaining t

Ellis Pinsky was a "Baby Al Capone" who became a crypto kingpin. In his first interview, he details the crime that nearly ruined his life.

By now, many of you loyal KrebsOnSecurity readers have seen stories in the mainstream press about the coordinated global law enforcement takedown of Darkode[dot]me, an English-language cybercrime forum that served as a breeding ground for botnets, malware and just about…