A Florida man whom federal prosecutors say was the creator and lead administrator of what is reportedly the world’s largest child pornography website was sentenced to 30 years behind bars Friday.
Instead of disclosing the classified techniques used to catch a pedophile, federal prosecutors in Washington state have instead decided to drop all charges against him for trying to access a child porn website, raising questions about the government’s limitations in hacking criminal suspects.
Cyber-security firm InfoArmor claims that the data from Yahoo’s one billion user account hack was sold a number of times last August for $300,000 on the “dark web,” and that it is still offered for sale.
Police officers in France have called for a variety of authoritarian powers regarding digital restriction to be added to a new proposed law after the Paris terrorist attacks last month.
The Tor Project, which creates free software for anonymous web browsing, has accused Carnegie Mellon University of working with the FBI to compromise its network, but the FBI has denied the allegations.
The “Impact Team” hackers who stole client information from adultery website Ashley Madison have made good on their threat to release the information. It reportedly contains over fifteen thousand government and military email addresses.
