A Massachusetts systems administrator is facing charges of breaking the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, trespassing, and conversion – using other people’s property for a crime – after booby-trapping his former employer’s servers.

Vulnerabilities found by researchers in Bosch’s Drivelog Connect product can be exploited by hackers to inject malicious messages into a vehicle’s CAN bus. The vendor has implemented some fixes and is working on adding more attack protections.

Identity theft is a type of fraud that’s directed squarely against individuals, but to believe that businesses don’t suffer any consequences or costs associated with it is simply wrong.

Amazon-owned video streaming site Twitch is taking a scorched-earth approach in a bid to ferret out who is behind a “malicious spambot.” The bots have been flooding streamers’ public chats with offensive, repetitive messages that have sometimes rendered their channels “unusable.”