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Cell 411 app lets you alert your friends during emergency situation rather than depending on the police. A new mobile app has been giving the cops sleepless nights. The reason is that the Cell 411 app lets you call on your friends or a group of trusted people if you are in an emergency situation […]
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 couple of weeks ago Anonymous hacked Thai Police servers and also leaked 1GB data from country’s supreme court website — All against to expose wrongdoing in a murder investigation Just two weeks ago around 300, Thai Courts of Justice websites were taken down by Anonymous to register protest against the sentencing of two Myanmar […]
Ohio man Sends Selfie To Police Saying It is a “better photo” than the “terrible” mug shot and Gets Arrested It has now been proven that even Most Wanted people can have bad picture days and the 45-year old Donald “Chip” Pugh has recently witnessed the same. Pugh was arrested in Florida and was due […]
In a world where government surveillance is a big thing there is a need for tools countering the whole idea of keeping an eye on people — Here are some tools and gadgets which might help you achieve that very goal. When it comes to protest, police and law enforcement agencies are always equipped with […]
Halifax police forced to re-open investigation in a sexual assault case after Anonymous exposes the identity of the alleged culprit. The online hacktivist collective Anonymous managed to force Halifax Regional Municipality police into reopening the investigation of an alleged sexual assault case involving an 18-year-old girl who was attacked by a fellow student on Halloween […]
Extremely secretive spy vehicles equipped with X-ray facility, Z Backscatter, will now be seen patrolling the city streets — NYPD hasn’t disclosed anything yet regarding why and how these vehicles will be used. It is understood that these vehicles will be capable of monitoring the contents of your car’s interior and also of your homes. […]
Security researchers Chris Valasek and Charlie Miller helped the world understand that late-model vehicles are vulnerable to cyber attacks. We have read about police getting their computers hacked or falling for ransomware and all that, but hackers can hack their cars? That’s something we weren’t expecting. Post the astonishing Chrysler hacking scandal, it has now […]
Short Bytes: In a surprising development, Police in North Dakota are now authorised to use armed drones equipped with tasers, rubber bullets, tear gas and other “non-lethal” weapons, after the passage of House Bill 1328. Ironically, this bill was originally intended to limit the surveillance powers of the police. Do you remember the terror-drone out […]
Spain offers a unique gagging law that is now being used in strange ways where people can be fined for posting images of security agencies on social media. In the US, people have started filming the police without permission and resultantly policemen have started wearing body cams to capture everything first hand. However, in Spain […]
Europol is going after people using social media platforms to spread ISIS propaganda. It was the Anonymous hacktivist group who took the initiative and exposed 26,000+ Twitter accounts having alleged links with ISIS/ISIL group. The group also leaked a list of websites allegdly spporting the extremist group. Now a new Police Unit has been established […]
Dubai: If you are living in UAE, you should know the dangers of flipping middle finger at someone as it could land you in prison. Nonetheless, legal experts have now also cautioned that sending an ‘emoji’ finger-flick gesture in a message or on social media could also land you in hot waters. In March, 2015 we reported that using VPN […]
It’s a high point for “Biometric technology” as in the latest advancement now. It is possible to record data about an individual’s physical attributes such as fingerprints or iris configurations, providing more accuracy to security and law enforcement services. The latest breakthrough in this field is the scanning of irises from a distance of up […]
A UK man has been charged this week with a non-custodial sentence, after a ransomware infection on his computer made him confess to police. The man’s computer housed hundreds of animal porn images, quoted by court as dangerous and disgusting. Local news report declares that, Scotland resident 61-year-old Victor Anthony Noble, who lived in the […]
A Florida based woman thwarted a dangerous hostage situation by using the delivery instructions section of an online pizza ordering service by sending plea for help. This has now been officially confirmed that a quick thinking woman and a Pizza order can save lives. Cheryl Treadway, a Florida woman, found herself and her three kids […]
Federal Appeals Court rules that citizens shouldn’t have any “expectation of privacy” when a third-party firm has access to data as sensitive as cell phone records. The United States Court of Appeals in its recent session decided that police will not have to show a warrant in order to collect cell phone records from carriers. […]
The online hacktivist Anonymous claims to leak emails and passwords of Baltimore Police Department (BPD) against the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old African-American Baltimore resident who died on April 19, 2015, a week after being arrested by the BPD. On 2nd May 2015, one of the Twitter handle associated with Anonymous hacktivists leaked emails and IP addresses of workers at […]
It has been almost 25 years, but the infamous video of ‘Rodney King being beaten up by L.A. police officers’ is still fresh in many memories. This year, a similar video captured through cellphone by a local man was uploaded to Facebook, it showed a fatal police shooting by L.A.P.D. the video went viral and […]
Dark web marketplaces are famous for their pharmaceuticals and weapons souks but nowadays a lot more variety has been lurking there than drugs and guns. You can buy almost anything you want. Researchers at an Ireland based Fraud Prevention software developer firm Trustev revealed that numerous small-scale marketplaces sell unusual stuff like Spotify accounts and […]
Ransomware equipped with encryption capabilities has been victimizing police departments rather indiscriminately nowadays. Although paying ransom to hackers is not recommended because it encourages cybercriminals to continue adopting these measures to obtain money via blackmailing but in order to avoid losing data that has been encrypted through malware activity is next to impossible. The only remedy […]
In order to disperse protesters, Police in India will now use drones equipped with pepper spray. Is it possible to register police misconduct complaint against a machine? This is the question that protesters in Uttar Pradesh, India, may need to find answer of soon because Uvalde and Lucknow police departments are now going to be […]