Browsing tag
Short Bytes: Hector Xavier Monsegur aka Sabu is a former LulzSec member and hacktivist who was arrested by the FBI in 2011. He became an informant and helped in the prevention of around 300 cyber attacks during a three-year span. He now calls himself security researcher and works as a penetration tester at Rhino Security Labs. […]
Newt Gingrich brokered deal for moonlighting contractor to hunt for potential breach. More records from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s review of Hillary Clinton’s e-mail practices have been released through the FBI’s Freedom of Information Act site, including interviews with a number of individuals related to the security of the server. One of them was […]
Vera Bradley Inc.’s Payment Processing System Hacked Delaying its Website Upgrade until 2017. Vera Bradley Inc, a famous handbag manufacturer has suffered a data breach after hackers gained access to the customer data from the company’s payment processing systems. The incident has forced the company to delay its website upgrading until 2017. The data accessed […]
A National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Harold Thomas Martin III was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation back in August on charges of stealing confidential data of the intelligence organization. The 51-year-old NSA contractor hails from Glen Burnie, Maryland and has been accused of stealing, removal and retention of classified government materials. As per […]
Last week, KrebsOnSecurity detailed how BackConnect Inc. — a company that defends victims against large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks — admitted to hijacking hundreds of Internet addresses from a European Internet service provider in order to glean information about attackers who were targeting BackConnect. According to an exhaustive analysis of historic Internet records, BackConnect appears to have […]
Privacy is important. If your webcam gets hijacked, hackers can record you with your notice. It’s good to cover your webcam with small sticker on it to stop the CIA reading your brainwaves. Hackers are really interested in spying upon others and steal information. They like to record a video footage about you from your computer […]
Researcher hacks iPhone 5c device of San Bernardino shooter Rizwan Syed Farook with just $100 hardware — Remember, the FBI had paid $1.3 million to get Farook’s iPhone unlocked. It has been over six months since Apple was contacted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to help bureau access data present on Rizwan Syed Farook’s iPhone 5c. The […]
Short Bytes: FBI Director James Comey has defended his decision to cover computer webcams with tape by calling it a sensible thing to do. He also advised the common public and asked them to take such measure for ensuring their safety. Comey also called it a “little camera thing” that’s a common practice at the […]
Short Bytes: Due to their poor understanding of technology, the US courts have failed to agree on whether FBI’s recent hacking activities broke the law. While previous courts argued that using a malware (FBI’s NIT) doesn’t need a warrant as it isn’t a “search”, a federal judge in Texas has now ruled that it’s “unquestionably a […]
Courts across the country can’t seem to agree on whether the FBI’s recent hacking activities ran afoul of the law—and the confusion has led to some fairly alarming theories about law enforcement’s ability to remotely compromise computers. In numerous cases spawned from the FBI takeover of a darkweb site that hosted child abuse images, courts […]
Crackas with Attitude (CWA) hackers who made headlines for hacking high-profile government officials in the United States are feeling the wrath of law enforcement agencies – US authorities have arrested two alleged hackers of the group. According to the Department of Homeland Justice the hackers, who have been identified as Justin Gray Liverman and Andrew […]
Let’s talk about Hack and Love; Let’s talk about Lauri Love — Lauri Love is a British Hacker might get 99 years for allegedly hacking US government computers. If extradited, Mr. Lauri Love fears it is quite possible that he will spend the rest of his life behind bars and might even die sooner than […]
Concern about more attacks mounting as presidential elections approach. Someone using servers in the US, England, Scotland, and the Netherlands stole voter registration from one state’s Board of Elections website in June and attacked another state’s elections website in August, according to a restricted “Flash” memorandum sent out by the FBI’s Cyber Division. The bureau issued […]
KimDotcom’ Megaupload, the popular website seized by feds 5 years ago and currently managed by the FBI is serving adult content. Sometimes really bizarre things happen and it is difficult to explain them. Is it possible that the FBI hosts a porn website? The first thing that I have is that the FBI might run […]
Short Bytes: Two researchers reported that Microsoft accidently compromised the golden keys to its UEFI Secure boot feature. The golden keys allow the developer to bypass the Window boot manager check and install a non-Microsoft OS on the machine. Microsft has released two patches to rectify the mistakes since then. It’s almost a week since […]
Problems uncovered after employees walk off job with thousands of SSNs on flash drives. A report published by the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology today found that hackers purported to be from China had compromised computers at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation repeatedly between 2010 and 2013. Backdoor malware was installed on 12 workstations […]
Short Bytes: In order to catch child pornography watchers, FBI created a website Playpen and hosted it on the dark web. Later in the case, the judges ruled out evidence due to lack of a proper warrant. FBI has filed a petition that the malware created by them shouldn’t be considered as malicious. Child pornography […]
An act involving hacking of a computer or a website to deliver a religious, political or social message is known as hacktivism but is it an act of terrorism as well? In early 2015, the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) made a bold move. It placed self-proclaimed hacktivist, Jeremy Hammond, already in jail, on […]
In one of the many ongoing legal cases surrounding a dark web child pornography site, a judge has written that the FBI did not require a warrant to hack a suspect’s computer. According to activists, the ruling could have serious implications for how law enforcement is able to conduct remote searches. “The Court finds that […]
Short Bytes: The TOR Project is working closely with security researchers to implement a new technique to secure the TOR Browser against the FBI’s de-anonymization exploits. Called “Selfrando”, this technique will fight the FBI’s “Code Reuse” exploits and create a “hardened” version of TOR. The tussle between TOR and the FBI dates way back to this privacy […]
Tor team has been working hard to stop FBI from hacking the Onion browser and track users — The team is now gearing up to create a hardened version of the Browser! There has been a fair share of work done to decrypt the Tor browser and any of its users who might be connected […]