NY pension fund bought $75M CrowdStrike stake before IT meltdown

A New York state pension fund is facing nearly $30 million in losses after buying CrowdStrike shares just before the tech company caused a global network outage and sent its stock price plummeting. The New York State Teachers Retirement System (NYSTRS) bought 197,462 shares of the Austin-based cybersecurity company in the second quarter of this […]

NYC cyber squatter hopes to cash in big on Harris-Walz website he bought in 2020

It’s a vice presidential contest. A Brooklyn cybersquatter who bought the website HarrisWalz.com in 2020 could sell the domain for $15,000 if Kamala Harris chooses Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate. Trademark attorney Jeremy Green Etche bought the URL for just $8.99 in the hopes that Harris and Waltz will one day become […]