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Top law enforcement officers, FBI director James Comey and Trump’s nominee for attorney general, Sen. Jeff Sessions, are supportive of giving law enforcement means to sidestep encryption. It seems likely that the Trump administration will push for policies forcing tech companies to create cryptographic backdoors in the name of helping law enforcement, a highly controversial […]
The Miami Beach City Hall’s Sun Trust Bank is in the news for all the wrong reasons. According to reports, malicious cyber-criminals were stealing cash from the bank since the summer of 2016 and the theft remained unnoticed until now. Too late now since the bank has already lost $3.6million. It is being speculated that […]
A hacker going by the online handle of “CyberZeist” has claimed to have hacked the content management system (CMS) of the official website of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the mainstream investigation agency of the United States. The hacker claims he compromised the Plone CMS system used by the bureau to obtain login credentials of […]
Short Bytes: A hacker has claimed to have breached the content management system used by the FBI. The hacker uses Twitter handle @CyberZeist and claims to have dumped email addresses and hashes on Pastebin. The fbi.gov’s server was hosted on an outdated FreeBSD VM, according to the hacker. A hacker, who operates the Twitter handle […]
The notorious black hat hacker CyberZeist (@cyberzeist2) has broken into the FBI website FBI.gov and leaked data on Pastebin. The notorious black hat hacker CyberZeist (@cyberzeist2) has broken into the FBI website FBI.gov and leaked data on Pastebin. The hacker leaked the FBI.GOV accounts that he found in several backup files (acc_102016.bck, acc_112016.bck, old_acc16.bck, etc). […]
Looks like the NSA has a history of positively identifying Russian hacks. The FBI, CIA and President Barack Obama all agree that Russia hacked the DNC and asserted its will on the US presidential election — but the winner of that contest isn’t so sure. “It could be somebody else.” Donald Trump told reporters over […]
The FBI arrested this past week Sean Krishanmakoto Sharma, 26, from La Canada, California, for launching DDoS attacks against Chatango, an online chat service. According to court documents, Sharma, who is a USC graduate, purchased DDoS firepower from Xtreme Stresser, an online DDoS-for-hire service. He used this service to attack Chatango and brought down the […]
Young hackers are creating quite a lot of trouble for the US cyber security agencies lately. To eradicate the threat, a multinational operation was carried out by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Europol for capturing young, impatient hackers. During the operation, a science student of Indian origin was also arrested. According to reports, the […]
Short Bytes: To improve transparency to the users, Google has revealed eight National Security Letters issued between 2010 and 2015 after the FBI lifted gag restrictions on these letters. The NSLs were used to obtain user information from Google. Google has shared eight notices or National Security Letters it received from the FBI. NSLs are issued […]
A website on the Dark Web, internet’s underworld where all sorts of illegal content can be shared or bought easily and anonymously, is urging users to help it raise money to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump and Vice-President-elect Mike Pence. CSO reports that this particular website went live the previous week and allegedly is seeking assistance […]
Hacking a couple of computer systems the world over simply were given less difficult for america intelligence and law enforcement businesses from nowadays onwards. The modifications brought to the rule of thumb forty one of the Federal rules of crook procedure via the united states department of Justice got here into impact on Thursday, after […]
As of December 1, 2016, US law enforcement has gained new hacking powers thanks to changes to Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure that now simplify the process of getting warrants to hack into devices of US citizens and the citizens of other countries. The Rule 41 amendments had been proposed in […]
Short Bytes: As a result of the implementation of the proposed Rule 41 changes, the FBI has got expanded hacking powers. Now, the FBI can hack any computer in the world just by obtaining a single warrant authorized by any US judge. The government has cited the “real and ongoing” threats as the cause of […]
On Oct. 27 of this year, a contractor told the US Navy that one of its employee’s laptops was “compromised,” resulting in the theft of personal data, including social security numbers, for more than 130,000 sailors, according to the Navy. The Navy, however, didn’t disclose this serious data breach for almost a month, until 5pm […]
For the last few months, Israeli spy firms have been making some strange claims such as Ability says that their “Unlimited Interception System” can trace calls, texts and location of every single mobile phone on the planet earth whilst another firm known as Wintego claims to have developed an app with “Unprecedented Capability” to steal encrypted communications […]
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is known for going all out for capturing cyber-criminals and terrorists but this time, the agency has set a new precedent in hacking operations. According to court documents the agency used a single warrant and compromised more than 8,000 computers in 120 different countries. Some information related to this secret […]
In January, Motherboard reported on the FBI’s “unprecedented” hacking operation, in which the agency, using a single warrant, deployed malware to over one thousand alleged visitors of a dark web child pornography site. Now, it has emerged that the campaign was actually several orders of magnitude larger. In all, the FBI obtained over 8,000 IP […]
Short Bytes: Following the unsealed documents recently obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union, it has been known that the FBI ran 23 child porn websites on the darknet. It is contrary to what was revealed earlier, that the FBI only hacked and hosted PlayPen for 13 days to catch pedophiles using NIT. Earlier, it […]
In 2013, the FBI received permission to hack over 300 specific users of dark web email service TorMail. But now, after the warrants and their applications have finally been unsealed, experts say the agency illegally went further, and hacked perfectly legitimate users of the privacy-focused service. “That is, while the warrant authorized hacking with a […]
Short Bytes: FBI conducted hacking activities on 23 dark web websites including TorMail, an anonymous email service. The agency used network investigative technique to hack the 300 accounts suspected for child pornography. But recent documents reveal that FBI also dropped malware bombs on innocent users. TorMail is an extinct website which existed on the dark […]
The firmware used by the Israeli mobile forensic firm Cellebrite was leaked online by one of its resellers, the McSira Professional Solutions. Do you know Cellebrite? It is an Israeli firm that designs digital forensics tools that are used by law enforcement and intelligence agencies to examine mobile devices in investigations. It became famous when […]