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Apple will fight court order to unlock gunman’s iPhone

February 17, 2016

A US magistrate judge has ordered Apple to help the FBI gain access to the contents of a PIN-locked iPhone 5C used by Syed Farook, one of the shooters in the San Bernardino …

Info on 20,000 FBI and 9,000 DHS employees leaked following alleged DoJ hack

February 9, 2016

On Sunday, Motherboard reported that a hacker contacted them and claimed to have hacked into a US Department of Justice (DoJ) computer, exfiltrated 200GB of files, as well as …

FBI warns Time Warner Cable of potential data breach

January 8, 2016

Time Warner Cable will soon be contacting approximately 320,000 of its customers whose accounts have likely been compromised, the company’s public relations director …

Revealed: What info the FBI can collect with a National Security Letter

December 1, 2015

After winning an eleven-year legal battle, Nicholas Merrill can finally tell the public how the FBI has secretly construed its authority to issue National Security Letters …

Tor Project claims FBI paid university researchers $1m to unmask Tor users

November 12, 2015

Have Carnegie Mellon University researchers been paid by the FBI to unmask a subset of Tor users so that the agents could discover who operated Silk Road 2.0 and other …

Secret code in color printers enables government tracking

October 19, 2015

A research team led by the EFF recently broke the code behind tiny tracking dots that some color laser printers secretly hide in every document.The U.S. Secret Service …

UK, US law enforcement agencies disrupt Dridex botnet

October 14, 2015

The UK’s National Crime Agency is spearheading an onslaught against the Dridex (aka Bugat, aka Cridex) banking malware and the criminals that wield it.“Dridex …

An emerging global threat: BEC scams hitting more and more businesses

September 1, 2015

As more and more victims come forward, and the losses sustained by firms in the US and around the world passed the billion dollar mark, the FBI is once again warning …

FBI director insists Silicon Valley can solve the encryption dilemma – if they try hard enough

July 9, 2015

On Wednesday, the US Senate Judiciary Committee got to hear from FBI director James Comey and DOJ Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates on how end-to-end encryption …

Over $18 million lost to Cryptowall just in the US

June 24, 2015

“Cryptowall is still “the most current and significant ransomware threat targeting US individuals and businesses,” the FBI warned in a public service …

Man charged with attempted spear-phishing attack on U.S. Department of Energy

May 12, 2015

An indictment is charging a former employee of the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) with a total of four felony offenses in …

Hacktivists are targeting law enforcement personnel, warns FBI

April 22, 2015

The FBI has issued an alert for law enforcement personnel and public officials, warning them that they may be targeted by hacktivists.“Hacking collectives are effective …

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