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NEWS - March 31, 2015

Mar 31, 2015 5:12AM PDT
Two feds charged for stealing Bitcoin during Silk Road investigation

Two former US federal agents have been charged with wire fraud, money laundering and related offenses for stealing digital currency during their investigation of Silk Road.

Carl M. Force, 46, of Baltimore, was a Special Agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and Shaun W. Bridges, 32, of Laurel, Maryland, was a Special Agent with the US Secret Service (USSS). Both were assigned to the Baltimore Silk Road Task Force, which investigated illegal activity in the Silk Road, an underground black market that allowed users to conduct illegal transactions over the Internet.

Force served as an undercover agent and was tasked with establishing communications with a target of the investigation, Ross Ulbricht, aka "Dread Pirate Roberts." Force is charged with wire fraud, theft of government property, money laundering and conflict of interest. Bridges is charged with wire fraud and money laundering.

Continued : http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=18152

Related:
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Former Federal Agents in Silk Road Case Hit With Charges

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GitHub under `Largest DDoS in Site History'
Mar 31, 2015 5:23AM PDT

Bitdefender's "HOT for Security" blog:

GitHub is suffering an ongoing DDoS attack after search engine traffic was redirected to flood the code repository.

On March 25, Baidu traffic began hitting a pair of URLs hosted on GitHub and causing temporary disruptions of the service.

"We are currently experiencing the largest DDoS attack in github.com's history," the company announced. "The attack involves a wide combination of attack vectors. These include every vector we've seen in previous attacks as well as some sophisticated new techniques that use the web browsers of unsuspecting, uninvolved people to flood github.com with high levels of traffic."

Continued : http://www.hotforsecurity.com/blog/github-under-largest-ddos-in-site-history-11658.html

Related:
DDoS Attack on GitHub Linked to Earlier One Against GreatFire.org
GitHub battles "largest DDoS" in site's history, targeted at anti-censorship tools
Day FOUR of the GitHub web assault: Activists point fingers at 'China's global censorship'

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World Backup Day - is your data safe enough?
Mar 31, 2015 5:37AM PDT

31 March is World Backup Day, a chance for us all to avoid being April Fools by making sure we have secure backups of all our most important data.

On last year's Backup Day, we provided a rundown of the most basic and important steps you can take to ensure your files can be retrieved in the event of a disaster.

Most physical storage media, from hard drives and USB flash drives to CDs and DVDs, are vulnerable to damage from flood, fire, or sudden impact (sometimes even simply dropping them on the floor).

Continued : https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/03/31/world-backup-day-is-your-data-safe-enough/