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A Texas man and an alleged member of the famous Anonymous hacktivist group, may face prison up to 440 years in the latest second superseding indictment of cyber assaults charges against him that includes hacking attempts against county, school, and newspaper organizations, says the latest release from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Fidel Salinas, […]
FBI has formulated some advanced surveillance techniques which enable them to secretly activate web cams for spying on the suspected computer owners. According to a recent publication of the Washington Post, G-men have developed the ability to remotely access cameras which capture real images and transmit them to the investigators. The cameras are accessed without […]
If you think its just the National Security Agency (NSA) that pokes its nose in your privacy then you are wrong. American Intelligence Agency CIA is following NSA’s footsteps by collecting information from money-transfer companies especially Western Union, building a database of international money transfer data. CIA collects such information under the shadow of same provision of […]
Since Senator. Al- Franken has become of part of the United States Senate, he has been the Chairman of Senate Judiciary Subcommittee which deals with issues related to Privacy, Technology and the Law. He has been quite clear in his stance which has been to raise and address the questions related to surveillance and technology […]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation doesn’t have the ability to monitor everyone’s one-on-one Internet chats in real-time just yet, but the agency’s chief lawyer says all that should soon change. FBI general counsel Andrew Weissman discussed the Justice Department’s power to put pressure on cyber-criminals during an address last week at the National Press Club in Washington, […]
A Pakistani student in UK will be extradited to the US from UK over computer hacking allegations stemming from an FBI sting operation. The 24 years old student identified as Usman Ahzaz, was admitted to a university in Britain in order to get a degree in information systems and computing failed the bid to avoid extradition from Britain to the United Stated. The hacker […]
U.S police force today arrested three criminals who are said to be involved in the uprising of one of the deadliest virus online i.e. the Gozi virus. The Gozi virus since 2005 has affected more than 40,000 computers in U.S. That belonged to many leading commercial and government centers, NASA is one of them. The […]
Four months ago we updated you with DNSChanger Trojan, which was supposed to effect internet service around the world and how FBI was supposed to shutdown the internet, then we updated you how FBI got four additional months to secure internet from DNSChanger malware. The four months are over now as there are warnings issued on Facebook, Google […]
New Zealand’s High Court judge Justice Helen Winkelmann has declared that The search warrants which were used to raid and arrest the home of MegaUpload owner Kim Dotcom were invalid. FBI’s action of copying data from Megaupload owner Kim Dotcom’s server and taking at back to US was also considered unlawful. MegaUpload owner who is currently on bail was arrested in January 2011, along […]
FBI Assistant Director in Charge on Cyber crime branh, along with Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has announced that the Beuro has arrested 24 hackers from eight different countries around the world. According to Preet Bharara, ”this was the largest coordinated international law enforcement action in history directed at “carding” crimes—offenses in which the Internet is used to […]
The FBI is now demanding the right to read whatever information is on your smartphone, whenever it wants to do so, without a warrant and with impunity. They have demanded, by requesting a court order, that Google ‘provide law enforcement with any and all means of gaining access, including login and password information, password reset, […]
LulzSec hacking group was raided in two continents by the police earlier today, where it gathered large number of evidence assisted by the group’s leader “Sabu” who according to Fox News report had been secretly working for the FBI and government for months, resulted in arrest of three and charged two more with conspiracy from LulzSec group. Fox News report says […]
The internet may go down for millions of people around the world on 8th March because a computer malware that has damaged pc systems in more than 100 nations across the globe. Last year, government bodies in Estonia arrested six men considered accountable for creating a destructive pc program known as the DNSChanger Trojan viruses. […]
Yesterday it was revealed by Anonymous that they have hacked confidential call between FBI and British intelligence agency. The call is a 16-minute long discussion between both agencies about ongoing investigations related to Anonymous LulzSec and AntiSec. Anonymous released a 15-minutes call recording that took place and recorded on Jan. 17 conference call that emphasis on to tracking and taking down the […]
The official website for the US’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) http://www.fbi.gov has been taken down by Anonymous hackers, in its massive attack on entertainment industry and American government. FBI’s website went down Thursday evening according to US time and is a part of Anonymous online campaign against crackdown of MegaUpload.com, the world biggest online file sharing website. A snapshot of Offical FBI website, which […]