FBI Seizes China-Linked Fake Consulting Sites Targeting US Clearance Holders

The Justice Department and FBI seized 13 fake consulting websites that officials say targeted US clearance holders with paid research work designed to obtain sensitive government information...

Proton Mail Shared User Information with the Police

404 Media has a story about Proton Mail giving subscriber data to the Swiss government, who passed the information to the FBI. It's metadata--payment information related to a particular account--but still important knowledge. This sort of thing happens, even to privacy-centric companies like Prot...

Microsoft is Giving the FBI BitLocker Keys

Microsoft gives the FBI the ability to decrypt BitLocker in response to court orders: about twenty times per year. It's possible for users to store those keys on a device they own, but Microsoft also recommends BitLocker users store their keys on its servers for convenience. While that means...

Feds Seize Record-Breaking $15 Billion in Bitcoin From Alleged Scam Empire

Officials in the US and UK have taken sweeping action against “one of the largest investment fraud operations in history,” confiscating a historic amount of funds in the process...

‘SIM Farms’ Are a Spam Plague. A Giant One in New York Threatened US Infrastructure, Feds Say

The agency says it found a network of some 300 servers and 100,000 SIM cards—enough to knock out cell service in the NYC area. Experts say it mirrors facilities typically used for cybercrime...

Feds Seize BidenCash Carding Market and Its Crypto Profits

After three years of peddling stolen data, BidenCash, one of the web's most brazen cybercrime hubs is offline, and authorities say they're just getting started...

Trump’s World Still Faces 16 Known Criminal Probes

Mueller is done and Rosenstein is on his way out the door, but federal and state authorities around the country are still investigating the president and those in his orbit...

First Hacker Convicted of 'SIM Swapping' Attack Gets 10 Years in Prison

A 20-year-old college student who stole cryptocurrency worth more than $5 million by hijacking victims' phone numbers has pleaded guilty and accepted a sentence of 10 years in prison. Ortiz was arrested last year on charges of siphoning millions of dollars in cryptocurrency from around 40 victims...

Police Can't Force You To Unlock Your Phone Using Face or Fingerprint Scan

Can feds force you to unlock your iPhone or Android phone? ..."NO" A Northern California judge has ruled that federal authorities can't force you to unlock your smartphone using your fingerprints or other biometric features such as facial recognition—even with a warrant. The ruling came in the ca...

Dark Web Users Suspect "Dream Market" Has Also Been Backdoored by Feds

By now you might be aware of the took down of two of the largest online dark websites—AlphaBay and Hansa—in what's being called the largest-ever international operation against the dark web's black market conducted by the FBI, DEA Drug Enforcement Agency and Dutch National Police. But the...

Feds Seize AlphaBay and Hansa Markets in Major Dark-Web Bust

It's finally confirmed — In a coordinated International operation, Europol along with FBI, DEA Drug Enforcement Agency and Dutch National Police have seized and taken down AlphaBay, one of the largest criminal marketplaces on the Dark Web. But not just AlphaBay, the law enforcement agencies have...

Bitcoin Creator Has Finally Unmasked Himself. Maybe, Real?

The mysterious creator of the BITCOIN digital cryptocurrency seems to have been identified as an Australian entrepreneur, and his name is: Craig Steven Wright. Five months after Wright, an Australian computer scientist and businessman was outed as Satoshi Nakamoto, revealed himself as the origina...

Linode Customer Password Reset, DDoS Attack

Cloud-based webhost Linode absorbed another body blow on Tuesday when it said it was resetting customer passwords after a suspected breach. The development compounded the company’s existing woes as it continues to battle a distributed denial-of-service attack that began on Christmas. A Linode...

AOL Breached, Investigating Spam from Spoofed Accounts

AOL reported today that it has been breached and urges users of its web-based email and other online services to change their passwords. AOL’s investigation of a breach of its internal network and systems is under way with the help of federal authorities and a forensics firm, the company said. La...

Belgian Telco Belgacom Compromised

A Belgian telecom company that handles some of the undersea cables that carry international voice traffic said Monday that its internal network had been compromised sometime in the last few months and malware had planted on some of its systems. Belgacom said the attack only affected its own...

Firm Finds DNS Changer Infections Linger Inside Fortune 500

A report finds that around half of the Fortune 500 corporations and government agencies infected with the DNS Changer malware are still infected, two months after authorities moved to shut down the massive botnet. The report, by Krebsonsecurity.com, raises troubling questions about the security o...

New Clickjacking Scam Uses Facebook, Javascript, Our Primate Brain To Spread

A researcher at Kaspersky Lab is warning of a new scam that pastes racy photos to victims’ Facebook pages while forcing them to view Web-based advertisements promoted by the scammers. Writing on the Securelist blog, Kaspersky Lab Expert David Jacoby said that the scam was circulating among Facebo...

Nasdaq systems were hacked last year !

Federal authorities are investigating a computer advance at the aggregation that runs the Nasdaq banal exchange, the Wall Street Journal arise Friday. According to the report, which cites bearding sources, Nasdaq OMX Group computers were compromised ancient over the accomplished year, but the...