Extortion articles

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  Billionaire T. Boone Pickens claims extortion and cyber bullying from his son's tell-all blog

  By Jacob Kastrenakes on April 17, 2013 10:18 am + 19 comments

  A simple Blogspot journal is the center of a $20 million extortion claim and the alleged cyber Continue reading…

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  Incautious Porn scrapes erotic solicitations to highlight the art of extortion

  By Jacob Kastrenakes on March 17, 2013 06:47 pm + 27 comments

  Incautious Porn wants to prove that our expectation of online anonymity is foolish — and that Continue reading…

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  Symantec source code hacker: we always planned to release the stolen code

  By Bryan Bishop on February 7, 2012 09:40 pm + 48 comments

  Protracted extortion negotiations with a hacker threatening to release stolen source code for Continue reading…

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  Symantec source code held by hackers in $50,000 extortion attempt, may have been released into the wild

  By Bryan Bishop on February 7, 2012 03:56 am + 7 comments

  The source code for Symantec's pcAnywhere and Norton AntiVirus products has been at the center of a Continue reading…