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Facebook is Buying Your Passwords on the Black Market
With an increasing number of mid-sized social networking and media websites being hacked en masse – MySpace, LinkedIn, Badoo, and tumblr are listed in the top-ten mass security breaches on Have I Been Pwned?, with hundreds of millions of accounts compromised – it’s rare to hear stories of social media…
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Ross Ulbricht Appeals for Silk Road Retrial over Police Corruption
Ross Ulbricht, the 31-year-old man ruled to be the founder of dark web black market site Silk Road and convicted on seven counts, has appealed for a fresh trial on the grounds that two of the police officers involved in the investigation have been convicted of fraud, committed on the…
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Key Adviser to Silk Road Arrested in Thailand
The FBI recently arrested a man in Thailand based on his alleged links to the illicit online marketplace, Silk Road. The man, Roger Thomas Clark, was linked to the site as a supposed “key adviser” to its creator, Ross Ulbright. The US Department of Justice (DoJ) announced his arrest,…
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Jury Rules Ross Ulbricht is Silk Road Mastermind; Guilty of All Charges
The jury in the Silk Road court case has ruled that Ross Ulbricht is guilty of all seven charges in a Manhattan court on Wednesday. The jury were convinced that Ulbricht was Dread Pirate Roberts, Silk Road’s shadowy mastermind, returning their verdict in just three-and-a-half hours. The evidence against Ulbricht…
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Ross Ulbricht Says He Did Create Silk Road, But He’s Not Dread Pirate Roberts
Ross Ulbricht, the man being tried for masterminding darknet black market Silk Road, has admitted to creating the site, but, according to his defence attorney Joshua Dratel, has denied that he is the site’s shadowy manager Dread Pirate Roberts. Dratel made the distinction in his opening statement on the first…
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Silk Road Reloaded Moves to Obscure I2P Network Over Tor
Silk Road Reloaded, the latest version of the infamous darknet black market, has eschewed the Tor network for the little-known but more secure I2P network Silk Road, its clones, and its successors alike have opted for Tor as their network of choice, but concerns over the level of anonymity the…
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