Miss Teen USA Cassidy Wolf has described how she was in ‘tears and shock’ after she found out that a hacker had installed malware on her computer that had secretly recorded her naked on her webcam.
Revelations about the underhand tactics used by the NSA to track millions of innocent people continue to flow with the report from Glenn Greenwald’s website The Intercept claiming that the security agency attempted infect the computers of millions of people with malware as part of a programme called “Turbine”.
ZeroAcces, one of the world’s largest for-hire botnets has been disrupted in a joint operation between Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) and the FBI, and led by Microsoft.
Dutch media operation NRC have published yet another Ed Snowden slide, showing how the NSA had infected 50,000 computer networks with malware.
The Internet Watch Foundation have received 227 reports of child porn malware in the past six weeks, in a disturbing change of tactic from the hackers behind the attacks.