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The 23year old Sacramento, CA, Paradise resident Jordan James Kirby has been sent to jail for 29years by United States District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. Kirby was accused of various counts of producing child pornography and exploitation of a minor. Court documents explained that between 2011 and 2013 James Kirby utilized numerous online IDs […]
The FBI chief James Comey is worried about possible cyber attacks by the ISIS group on critical infrastructure in the United States — Comey believes “it’s coming.” While addressing the Cybersecurity Law Institute at Georgetown University, FBI chief James Comey claimed that Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS/ISIL) is arming itself with latest cyber attack tactics and looking into its capability if the group […]
Summary: An official statement issued by an FBI agent reveals that InfoSec researcher Chris Roberts has confessed to hacking into the controls of a flying aircraft triggering it to climb — John McAfee (founder of McAfee anti-virus software) is supporting Roberts on this issue. Earlier we reported how vulnerable In-Flight systems can be taken over by […]
Federal Appeals Court rules that citizens shouldn’t have any “expectation of privacy” when a third-party firm has access to data as sensitive as cell phone records. The United States Court of Appeals in its recent session decided that police will not have to show a warrant in order to collect cell phone records from carriers. […]
Ten individuals of Nigerian origin have been arrested by Guardia di Finanza for laundering millions of pounds acquired from frauds causing loss of over €2.5 / $2.74million. The Italian Financial Police conducted an operation with the support of Europol and the Federal Bureau of Intelligence and 130 police officers and arrested ten Nigerians. The operation […]
Earlier this week the FBI denied air travel to Chris Roberts due to his sarcastic tweets about United Airlines’ security system on board. Now, for the second time in a row, Roberts has been denied air travel via United. Apparently, United Airline isn’t very keen on letting Chris Roberts travel on their planes. Roberts, acclaimed […]
Chris Roberts (World Labs’ IT security expert) who recently identified risks in airplane in-flight entertainment systems became the target of FBI investigation himself. On Wednesday he was pulled off by two uniformed officials and two FBI officers from a United Airlines Boeing 737-800 commercial flight. All of his electronics were also confiscated by the officials. Chris Roberts is […]
Suspected ‘Nazi’ Android FBI Ransomware Architect Detained In Russia – A Nazi-themed malware control panel was used by the Svpeng cybercriminal gang. It has been announced by Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs that a 25-year-old, who was suspected to be the mastermind behind the harmful strain of Android money-stealing malware called Svpeng, has been arrested. Svpeng […]
New York’s Erie County police department has revealed that it used Stingray spying tool for tracking users’ cellphone for 47 times without a warrant. The Erie County police department in New York has made it difficult for the New York Civil Liberties Union to provide records regarding the “Stingray”, a surveillance tool they use which […]
Last week we reported on the Overwatch service that pinpoints every fake cell tower spying and tracking your smartphone. Now we present an Android app known as SnoopSnitch that can track Stingray, the favorite smartphone tracking gear of the FBI and NSA. Stingrays or IMSI catchers are surveillance tools that are being widely used by the government. These tools pretend […]
Encryption should be Outlawed – FBI Retracts Support to Further Weaken Our Security. In the past when Apple started encrypting its iPhone by default, the step was lauded by the FBI as it ensured enhanced security. However, the FBI has revoked its support and now maintains that encryption of this type needs to be outlawed, […]
ISIS Wants Supporters To Kill a Hundred of its “Hacked Hit List” U.S. Military Employees. The Islamic State (ISIS) posted the names, pictures and addresses of 100 U.S. military personnel urging its “brothers residing in America” to slay them. In response to this post, the Pentagon stated that an investigation into the matter was immediately […]
A Supreme Court judge in Buffalo ordered the Sheriff Office at Erie Country to disclose secret information to public which was collected from the public through Stingray surveillance device including phone numbers and locations of New Yorkers. Apart from the utterly questionably legality and constitutionality of this sort of mass surveillance, it is the high level […]
Unsealed Document Exposes FBI – Bureau admits using Stingray Devices to Disrupt Phone Service. FBI’s Stingray secrecy has been compromised and exposed by an unsealed document, a pen register application from 2012. The sealed version of this document was acquired by the ACLU previously but a motion to reject the evidence entailed in the device brought […]
Whopping $3 Million Bounty offered by FBI for Evgeniy Bogachev. The FBI and the U.S. State Department announced the highest ever bounty of $3 million on Tuesday for info leading to the capture or conviction of alleged Russian Hacker Evgeniy Bogachev. This amount is the highest offered by U.S authorities in any cyber case. A […]
Officials from Cybercrime Circle of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) have revealed that two of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)’s ten most-wanted cyber criminals have been arrested by their department on FBI’s request. The suspects Noor Azizuddin and Farhanul Arshad were arrested from their house in Federal B Area in a pre-dawn raid by FIA. […]
If by any chance, you have been into a local police department for filing a public request in order to know about how cell-site simulators function in your community, there are high chances that the FBI is already aware of it. And the FBI will try to conceal such information. These devices that have come […]
Everything formidable is often associated with its negative half and the same can be said of the internet. The origins of functional internet can be traced back to the 1990’s, the exact period of the origins of the early form of malware. Malware was then just a few lines of code in software that would […]
A security researcher has revealed from a research of various data breaches, a collection of 10 million usernames and passwords. The leaked database dumps that had the 10 million usernames and passwords were already available to the public online. But a popular security consultant, Mark Burnett – the person involved in the collecting and researching […]
US energy, defense and educational institutions are the top targets of a possible sophisticated cyber attack from the Iranian hackers, says a confidential document from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Cylance Inc, a cyber security firm, had also flagged this cyber hacking operation last week aiming critical infrastructure worldwide. Dubbed as “Operation Cleaver”, it […]
The police dislike Apple and Google’s latest smartphones because of their high-end encryption, according to a senior FBI official. “Encryption threatens to lead all of us to a very dark place. Justice may be denied because of a locked phone or an encrypted hard drive,” said James Comey, FBI Director, in a speech last month. […]