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What comes to your mind when you read the term mass surveillance?… The USA? NSA? Edward Snowden? Right! Well, add the FBI’s massive facial recognition database to the list as well. Just last week it was widely reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation wants to create a software that identifies, automatically, tattoos related to criminal organizations, […]
Today the federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) finally published its exhaustive report on the FBI’s face recognition capabilities. The takeaway: FBI has access to hundreds of millions more photos than we ever thought. And the Bureau has been hiding this fact from the public—in flagrant violation of federal law and agency policy—for years. According to […]
When the FBI was trying to break into the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, many assumed that the NSA would have the technical capability to do so. Turns out, one of the most powerful intelligence agencies in the world couldn’t hack into that specific model, according to an NSA official. “We don’t do every phone, every […]
Short Bytes: A new update to the Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of the Criminal Procedure has been proposed which will empower FBI to gain remote access to any device after obtaining a single search warrant authorized by any federal judge in the United States. The internet world for Bitcoiners using TOR is soon […]
The idea is to use 100,000 photographs as a parameter to define tattoos that relate to violent and criminal activities! Think about getting a tattoo? It is worth spending time choosing the design – and not just because it is permanent. The FBI wants to create a software that identifies, automatically, tattoos related to criminal […]
Short Bytes: The FBI is expecting a new change in the law that would grant it powers to get a complete picture of a person’s online life. The new change will allow the FBI to access a person’s browsing history and other “electronic communications” data without a warrant in any spy cases or terrorism. The FBI […]
Private industry players have been warned by the FBI through its Private Industry Notification to keep an eye on those keystroke loggers that have been disguised as USB device chargers. This notification is dated April 29. FBI officials wrote (Pdf) in their notification that: “If placed strategically in an office or other location where individuals might use […]
RECENT HEADLINES WARN that the government now has greater authority to hack your computers, in and outside the US. Changes to federal criminal court procedures known as Rule 41 are to blame; they vastly expand how and whom the FBI can legally hack. But just like the NSA’s hacking operations, FBI hacking isn’t new. In […]
Short Bytes: Recently, Mozilla filed a brief with the court, urging the FBI to reveal the technique used to hack 1000+ computers of pedophile TOR users. The open source supporter said that TOR software suite is based on Firefox and any known flaw can compromise the security of the end users. Last year, the Federal […]
Maybe the FBI should team up with India because that country’s government says it can hack into Apple’s iPhones. Both think access to encrypted data in investigations is important, although India’s government doesn’t seem to be going to the same extremes to get it. Ravi Shankar Prasad, India’s Communications Minister, said the government is actively […]
Hey Folks! So late last year a quote was going around about a comment for the Special Agent in charge of the Cyber Intelligence program for a Boston branch of the FBI that mentioned how they advise users to just pay ransomware criminals because in many cases, getting the files back by any other method would […]
Short Bytes: FBI has now got the power to hack any computer in the world with the help of a warrant from a U.S. judge. This new ruling was recently made by the U.S. Supreme Court. As expected, this change has attracted lots opposition from privacy advocacy groups and tech companies like Google. According to the […]
FBI is now free to hack any computer in the world using any method it wants — Thanks to the Supreme court of the United States. The US Supreme Court has given a fatal blow to the tech world and its companies after passing regulations which entitle the FBI and other law enforcement agencies to […]
Short Bytes: After it was possible to hack into the San Bernardino iPhone, FBI has again come up with another statement that it cannot reveal the information about the method that was used to hack into the iPhone as FBI did not purchase the rights to the technique used in hacking. After the FBI was able to […]
The US government hired an insider to help it with the anonymous browser Tor. Tor is used by millions of people around the world, who want it for its anonymity. The US government hired a former Tor Project developer, who has been creating malware for the Federal Bureau of Investigation which allows the agency to […]
How does the U.S. government beat Tor, the anonymity software used by millions of people around the world? By hiring someone with experience on the inside. A former Tor Project developer created malware for the Federal Bureau of Investigation that allowed agents to unmask users of the anonymity software. Matt Edman is a cybersecurity expert […]
FBI director James Comey has given us our first hint at how much money the FBI paid to unlock the infamous iPhone at the center of its high-profile encryption fight with Apple. The short answer: “A lot.” “More than I will make in the remainder of this job, which is seven years and four months, […]
Short Bytes: FBI paid over one million dollars to an Israeli agency to hack into the San Bernardino terrorist’s iPhone. Some news agencies are reporting this step by FBI as an extremely expensive step and some are terming it as the largest ever paid for a hacking exploit. James Comey, FBI director, might not seem too […]
Ransomware has become the scourge of the web in recent months. Hospitals thrust back into the non-digital age, their files locked up until they paid hefty ransoms in Bitcoin. Schools suffering the same fate. A variant called Locky spreading like wildfire, nearly a million infections in a week. Another, Jigsaw, surfaced this week using imagery […]
After FBiOS, get ready for Mozilla vs. the FBI.A question posed by a researcher from the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California has led many to believe, even us, that the FBI may be sitting on a Firefox zero-day which it is currently fighting in US courts to keep secret. All the time while […]
The FBI issued a confidential urgent “Flash” message to the businesses and organizations about the Samsam Ransomware, why it is so dangerous? It is emergency, every week security experts launch an alert on a new ransomware, the extortion practice is becoming a profitable business for criminal gangs worldwide. Recently the US and Canada issued a joint warning about the recent […]