FBI: Banned Security Researcher Admitted to Hacking Plane In-Flight

A security researcher who was pulled out from a United Airlines flight last month had previously admitted to Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI that he had taken control of an airplane and made it fly briefly sideways. Chris Roberts, the founder of One World Labs, was recently detained, question...

The Triumphant Finale of CSI: Cyber

It’s been a couple of months since we left our heroes on CSI: Cyber, and boy, have they been busy. They have apparently solved many crimes using cyber-sleuthing, acquired some decidedly non-cyber firearms skills, and, in the case of our man Krumitz, taken up running. We wanted to check in and see...

Appeals Court Rules NSA Metadata Collection Not Authorized by Section 215

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Thursday that the Patriot Act does not authorize the bulk collection of phone records by the NSA. The ruling undermines the key foundation upon which the federal government’s phone metadata surveillance program is built, Section 215 ...

Researchers, FBI Warn of Nepal Earthquake Scams

The earthquake that hit Nepal late last month has caused untold damage in the region and kicked off a massive relief and aid effort. Attackers are loathe to let a chance like that go by, and they have concocted a number of schemes to deprive victims of their money and hope for relief funds. Aid...

Reporting LIVE from the HIMSS 2015 Cybersecurity Command Center

Well, its not exactly live anymore but it certainly was worth tweeting live from the brand new Cybersecurity Command Center CCC at HIMSS 2015 in Chicago a couple weeks ago given all the excitement. The CCC was the place to be at HIMSS this year with standing room only at the educational sessions...

Wikileaks Publishes 30,000 Searchable Documents from the Sony Hack

Remember the largest hack on Sony Pictures Entertainment late last year? Well, nobody can forget it. But let me remind you once again: Sony Picture Entertainment hack was one of the most devastating hacks in the history that leaked several hundred gigabytes of sensitive data, including high-quali...

Android 'Trusted Voice': My Voice Is My Password

Today device unlocking has become far more secure over the years, from PIN number unlock to Pattern unlock and biometric unlocks including fingerprinting and facial recognition. But... ...What If Your Android Device Can Identify Your Voice before authenticating any access? This exactly what Googl...

Local Police Listening Your Cell-Phone Without a Warrant

By now, everyone knows that the major federal agencies and big organisations like FBI, NSA and CIA are spying on you under their massive global surveillance programmes. But here's the Kicker: Your local police might be spying on your activities, too. According to the recent details published by t...

Own a WordPress Website? ISIS is After You — FBI warns

If you run a self-hosted WordPress website, then you must Beware: "ISIS is after you." Yes, you heard right. The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI is warning WordPress users to patch vulnerable plugins for the popular content management system before ISIS exploit them to display...

IC3 Releases Alert on Web Site Defacements

The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 has issued an alert addressing recently perpetrated Web site defacements. The defacements advertise themselves as associated with the Islamic State in the Levant ISIL a.k.a. Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shams ISIS. However, FBI assesses that the perpetrator...

Two Federal Agents Charged with Stealing Bitcoins During Silk Road Investigation

Two former Federal investigators who helped to shut down the infamous black-market website 'Silk Road' accused of fraud and stealing more than a Million dollars in Bitcoins during their investigation. Silk Road, an infamous online drug market that hosted more than $200 Million in transactions, wa...

FBI Pleads For Crypto Subversion in Congressional Budget Hearing

In a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing this morning on the FBI budget for the upcoming fiscal year, FBI Director James Comey was again critical of new encryption features from Apple and Google that he claims would make it impossible for law enforcement to access the contents of mobile...

Breach at Premera Blue Cross Affects 11 Million

Hackers wriggled their way into the servers of health insurance provider Premera Blue Cross 10 months ago, and potentially exposed the information of 11 million members, employees and other associates. The provider announced yesterday that customer information, including names, dates of birth,...

Microsoft warning: Windows PC there are also Freak security vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Microsoft on Friday warned that hundreds of millions of Windows PC users are facing a“Freak”security vulnerability threats, and that a newly discovered security vulnerability was initially considered only for mobile devices and Apple Mac computers pose a threat. On Tuesday, by 9 The name of...

Confusion Reigns Over FBI's Plans for National Security Letter Gag Orders

The way that National Security Letters are approved and used is one of the government’s more opaque processes. Now, you can add some more confusion into the mix, courtesy of some new comments from the FBI about when recipients are able to disclose the fact that they have received an NSL. More tha...

CSI: Cyber: We Watched So You Didn't Have To

From the time the first commercials aired during the American pro football championship game last month, CSI: Cyber has been one of the more talked-about and least-anticipated shows in recent memory. At least in tech circles. For normal viewers, it’s one of those shows that you wake up in the...

FBI Offers $3 Million Reward For Arrest Of Russian Hacker

The US State Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced Tuesday a $3 Million reward for the information leading to the direct arrest or conviction of Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, one of the most wanted hacking suspects accused of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars with h...

Anthem Data Breach Could Affect Millions of Consumers

Attackers have compromised Anthem Inc., one of the larger health-care companies in the United States, gaining access to the Social Security numbers, birth dates, names, employment and income data and other personal information of an untold number of customers. The company says it is not sure yet...

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht Convicted of All 7 Charges; Faces Life In Prison

A jury has found Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht a.k.a Dread Pirate Roberts guilty on all seven counts and faces Life In Prison for running an underground black market i.e. Silk Road. Ross Ulbricht, a San Francisco 30-year-old web developer was arrested by FBI in a sting operation in October 2013...

The Pirate Bay relaunch is FBI's Honeypot? Pirate Bay Team Responds,'NO WAY'

After almost two months of untimely and unexpected outage, The Pirate Bay TPB finally came back this weekend. But the re-launch of the infamous torrent-indexing website raised a question among those suspicious about this new setup — Is it really The Pirate Bay? A few days back we reported that Th...