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Short Bytes: An attack by a hacker has just revealed the sensitive information of about 20,000 FBI employees. Besides this personal contact information of the FBI employees, the hacker also claims to have more sensitive data like credit card number and some military emails. The game, which began last year when a hack at the […]
A hacker accessed an employee’s email account at the Department of Justice and stole 200GB of files including records of 9,000 DHS staffers and 20,000 FBI employees. Yesterday, the data related a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) staff directory were leaked online, a Twitter account shared the link to an archive containing 9,355 names. The responsible […]
America’s Largest Police Union Faces Embarrassment as Hackers Post Private Details of Officers Online America’s biggest police union the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), which represents around 330,000 law enforcement officers all over the US, is in the news for all the wrong reasons. Reportedly, the names/addresses of officers, sensitive forum posts related to Barack […]
A hacker linked with the ”Cracka with Attitude” group claims to hack FBI’s service and steal personal information of over 80 Miami Police Officers. A hacker, who has dubbed himself as Lorde Bashtien, has managed to hack the servers of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and obtained data of over 80 police officers. The officers […]
Report Hints on Possible Invading of TORMail users Privacy for Capturing Global Child Porn Gang by the FBI In 2013, the Federal Bureau of Investigation seized one of the most popular dark web email platform called TorMail and soon after the department began to rifle through the contents of the server. Back then, the researchers […]
Back in 2013, the FBI seized TorMail, one of the most popular dark web email services, and shortly after started to rifle through the server’s contents. At the time, researchers suspected the agency had also deployed a network investigative technique (NIT)—the FBI’s term for a hacking tool—to infect users of the site. Now, confirmation of […]
Government Officials under Attack: Hackers Who targeted CIA Director now reach the White House The hacking group Crackas With Attitude have been targeting officials since October and turned out to be a nightmare for US government officials. After compromising CIA Director John Brennan’s AOL email account, now the group have claimed another high-profile victim- John […]
In the summer of 2014, anonymous hackers flooded the internet with private nude photos of major (and minor) celebrities. Two years later, new details show the FBI thinks they identified Jennifer Lawrence’s hacker. But no one’s facing charges. Last year, Gawker reported that the FBI had raided the Chicago home of Emilio Herrera, alleging that […]
The pro-Palestinian hackers from CWA hacking group are now in the league of their on and can be classified as one of the most notorious hacking groups. It seems like the CWA hacking group is one-up in the game of chase between US spies and them. Ironically, they have managed to hack Verizon My FiOS account of […]
Short Bytes: Your perception about NSA might change a little after reading the statement by a former director of NSA, General Michael Hayden, where he is trying to see some value in the personal data. He defended end-to-end encryption by calling it good for America. NSA talking about the data privacy? Does not look absurd? […]
User data of over 320,000 accounts with Time Warner Cable were stolen when a hack led to details like email ids and passwords to be compromised. Although it is said that no type of publicity is bad, Time Warner Cable would surely beg to differ. Time Warner Cable has attracted some unwanted attraction and has […]
Short Bytes: Last year, the FBI engaged in the largest ever law enforcement hacking campaign to shut down “the largest remaining known child pornography hidden service in the world.” The FBI made use of a hacking tool called network investigative technique (NIT) to sniff the IP addresses of the pedophile users and busted them. Back […]
FBI has taken down a site involved in Child pornography through some hacking techniques that have never been used in the history of the law enforcement. In October last year, FBI hacked Tor browser and caught thousands of paedophiles. Now, a website by the name of “Playpen” registered in August 2014 for the purpose of […]
Chris Vickery, a security researcher who is known for finding leaked databases online claims he has found US voter registration records of 191 million US voters — It is unclear who is behind the leak, why the data was leaked, if the leak is a result of a security or a human error. Vickery in the […]
FBI director James Comey called on tech companies to create backdoor access to their users’ data on Wednesday, arguing it was necessary to tackle everything from terrorism to child kidnapping. In a hearing about the San Bernardino massacre, Comey said keys to encrypted devices should be held by device manufacturers “so that they could comply […]
According to an official document from the FBI, a Russian gang has been involved in a breach of 1.2 billion login credentials. Furthermore, the records state the gang as “CyberVor” and have been charged with theft of 1.2 billion login credentials and half a billion email addresses. FBI’s investigations were based on the findings of […]
Rohit Jawa, a 25-year-old man, was arrested in Cincinnati, Ohio on 15th June 2015 for scamming on eBay — He was accused of defrauding eBay customers for making fraudulent purchases. Rohit started his fraudulent operations in 2013 and employed 9 eBay and 18 PayPal accounts for carrying out his fraudulent purchases. He may now face […]
CARNEGIE MELLON’S researchers pulled their talk on cracking the protections of the anonymity software Tor from the schedule of the Black Hat security conference in 2014, the university has been nearly silent about rumors that their technique ended up in the FBI’s hands. Now the university has finally spoken up—to deny the Tor Project’s claim […]
Reformed hacker says that US government websites especially FBI and Home Office are easiest to hack. You would be surprised to know that one of the easiest sites to hack is of one of the giant law enforcement authority in the world and even more surprising is the fact that it belongs to United States. […]
French authorities after the Paris attacks are busy trying to find the source using which the whole massacre was planned. Last Friday, Paris went under seven attacks at different places where there was a rush of people leading to 129 dead and more than 415 injured. French authorities are showing some interest in the world’s […]
More than a year ago, the Tor Project patched its software against a vulnerability being exploited by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, it said, for the purpose of de-anonymizing users of Tor hidden services. Yesterday, Tor Project director Roger Dingledine accused the prominent Pittsburgh university of accepting at least a $1 million payout from the […]