The six-month international sweep against business email compromise and ACH fraud that ended in 74 arrests across the United States, Nigeria and beyond.

An excerpt from Dan Geer's conference speech on society's dependence on computing infrastructure, published as a tribute rather than as original work.

An FBI memo on intruders reaching a New Jersey company's industrial control network through a backdoor in its Tridium Niagara AX system.

Seculert's findings on Dexter, malware built to pull card data from point-of-sale aggregation points rather than skimming machines one at a time.

How South African Postbank lost $6.7 million over the holidays without a mask or a weapon in sight.

Andrew Escher Auernheimer on his intention to fight the conspiracy and identity theft charges brought over the AT&T 3G iPad account breach.

An Italian hacker dumps thousands of students' personal details from university sites in the name of Anti-Sec, and why the stated justification does not hold.

Why building stealth crimeware keeps getting easier, and how targeted attacks like Stuxnet changed what defenders are actually up against.

A 2011 roundup of data privacy and breach news, and what the year's incidents reveal about organised crime moving into horizontal markets.