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Short Bytes: In a blog post, Tor Director has outlined the unethical ways that were employed by FBI to unmask Tor users. He added that the invasion of people’s privacy on a wholesale level is unacceptable by crossing the ethical lines between research and targeting innocent users. The Tor Project head has accused the FBI […]
The teen hacking group “Crackas With Attitude” (CWA), who hacked into the email account of CIA’s director John Brennan last month has struck again. This time, they have breached into federal systems and have leaked lots of sensitive data. Since the last month’s attack, the hackers reportedly compromised email account of FBI Deputy Director Mark […]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has stated that it’s completely fine to pay ransom to cyber criminals. If you are a fan of Hollywood movies you may be familiar with a statement that FBI has a very strict policy statement “Never negotiate with the terrorists.” But, the same investigation bureau believes that cyber criminals asking […]
Short Bytes: FBI has advised ransomware victims to pay the ransom and retrieve their data as there is not much the top law enforcement agency of the USA can do in this matter. It is pretty difficult to decrypt the ransomware so users are at the hacker’s mercy. Getting hacked is so common these days […]
Apple is all set to allow TOR anonymity apps on iOS9, which will be the part of its ongoing effort to defend their user’s privacy. A fascinating part of this news that the apps are coming for Apple devices when U.S and UK government are in discussions on future of encryption and anonymity online. All […]
The CIA and the FBI are always looking for backdoors in Apple devices, in fact, the agency spent years trying to hack iPhone and iPads according to documents released by NSA’s Edward Snowden. Now, with the new upgraded operating systems, Apple has termed it “impossible” to access any data from Apple devices. Though, the company can […]
Do you think that using anonymity software like Tor will protect your online presence from spies? A new spyware has been developed by the FBI, having the ability to track and catch the suspects of child pornography even if they are using Tor to access, view and download sexually explicit images of children. For those […]
Dark-web deadbeats may not be as anonymous as they think. A bloke in the US was charged on Friday after FBI spyware caught him downloading child sex abuse material. Luis Escobosa, of Staten Island, admitted to Feds he broke federal child pornography laws by viewing depraved photos on a hidden Tor service. Unknown to Escobosa, […]
A recent survey from Vormetric revealed that people in the United States are OK with the addition of backdoors in their devices/software. This startling revelation negated the general perception that Americans greatly value their privacy. The survey was conducted by Vormetric and Wakefield regarding the ongoing debate between tech firms and the US government regarding […]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), has been sued by the Associated Press (AP) for the suppression of documents about FBI agent who impersonated an AP journalist and created a fake news story. Last year, AP filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the FBI in search of the documents related to the […]
Earlier this month, as a part of the massive breach at the infamous Hacking Team, numerous documents were leaked. Since then, analysts are busy going through them and new revelations are greeting us each day. In the same process, leaked documents have revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) communicated with Hacking Team to […]
31-year old Lucas Chansler is set to serve 105 years, perhaps the remaining days of his life, in prison after admitting to yoking an estimated 350 girls or more to his perverted scheme. FBI is now searching for about 250 more victims, who were by then teenage girls, to come forward for interview and as […]
WikiLeaks, a whistle-blowing site has published 276,394 new docs taken from Sony in Nov by an anonymous attacker. It adds to the 173,132 emails and 30K docs published in April 2015. The new docs were made accessible on Tuesday by the WikiLeaks. No open proclamation from the site accompanied the released, yet it asserted on […]
Tattoo Recognition System is coming! Recently committed a crime? Do you happen to have a large visible tattoo? Then you could soon be tracked down simply by the body art on your skin, the NIST has suggested. The National Institute of Standards and Technology is working on an algorithm that will essentially be able to […]
In a report earlier his month, it was reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is flying spy planes over the American cities regularly. They fly over your homes and disrupt the phone services apart from collecting your data. Well, this hasn’t been received as a surprise as the government agencies are known to […]
A hacker from Mississauga, Canada got imprisoned for leading a worldwide computer hacking group that managed to penetrate the U.S military network and famous online gaming systems Microsoft’s Xbox. David Pokora will be spending 18 months of his life in a United States prison on accounts of committing computer fraud and privacy infringement. He was […]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation believes that Apple and Google are actually helping ISIS and encouraging terrorism by offering users encrypted communications. A senior FBI official Michael Steinbach stated at the House Homeland Security Committee in Congress that Apple and Google are actually encouraging terrorism by providing encrypted communication facility and US law should immediately […]
Hackers working for the Chinese military unit allegedly carried out a “massive breach” in December targeting records of the Office of Personnel Management workers, officials said. The OPM serves as the federal government’s human resource department and the agency compiles records and issues security clearances of all the federal government employees. The Office of Personnel […]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is using aircrafts for its surveillance operations on the ground in the US. The Associated Press exposed startling facts about the mysterious surveillance aircrafts circling over US cities probably for decades. Reportedly, these low-flying planes were part of a civilian air force controlled by the FBI and obscured behind fake companies. […]
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 […]