In January, the National Enquirer published a special edition that revealed an intimate relationship Bezos was having. He asked me to learn who provided his private texts to the Enquirer, and why. My office quickly identified the person whom the Enquirer had paid as a source: a man named Michael Sanchez, the now-estranged brother of Read more about Bezos’ Investigator Gavin de Becker Finds the Saudis Obtained the Amazon Chief’s Private Data (for the dick pic extortion thing a few weeks ago)[…]

NSO and a competitor, the Emirati firm DarkMatter, exemplify the proliferation of privatized spying. A monthslong examination by The New York Times, based on interviews with current and former hackers for governments and private companies and others as well as a review of documents, uncovered secret skirmishes in this burgeoning world of digital combat. A Read more about A New Age of Warfare: How Internet Mercenaries Do Battle for Authoritarian Governments[…]

The personal information of roughly 3.1 million Toyota customers may have been leaked following a security breach of multiple Toyota and Lexus sales subsidiaries, as detailed in a breach notification issued by the car maker today. As detailed in a press release published on Toyota’a global newsroom, unauthorized access was detected on the computing systems of Tokyo Sales Read more about Toyota Security Breach Exposes Personal Info of 3.1 Million Clients, could be part of Vietnam attack[…]

A Lithuanian man admitted he helped trick Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google into sending more than $100 million through a phishing scheme. Evaldas Rimasauskas, 50, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud before U.S. District Judge George Daniels on Wednesday under an agreement with prosecutors and will forfeit $49.7 million. Rimasauskas was extradited Read more about Man Pleads Guilty in $100 Million Scam of Facebook and Google – colleagues not yet found[…]