NYPD Sued Over Possible Records Collected Through Muslim Spying Program

The New York Police Department's “mosque-raking” program targeted Muslim communities across NYC. Now, as the city's first Muslim mayor takes office, one man is fighting—again—to fully expose it...

Zohran Mamdani Just Inherited the NYPD Surveillance State

In addition to affordability, New York City’s mayor-elect will be forced to reckon with the NYPD’s sweeping mass surveillance operations...

Malicious code in test-mlw2-irked-mayor (npm)

The package test-mlw2-irked-mayor was found to contain malicious code...

MAL-2025-35564 Malicious code in test-mlw2-irked-mayor (npm)

The package test-mlw2-irked-mayor was found to contain malicious code...

The FBI Still Hasn’t Cracked NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ Phone

Plus: Harvard students pack Meta’s smart glasses with privacy-invading face-recognition tech, Microsoft and the DOJ seize Russian hackers’ domains, and more...

Exploit for Incorrect Comparison in Mailcow Mailcow\:_Dockerized

CVE-2024-41958-PoC This is a small proof of concept for CVE-...

Internal Emails Reveal How a Controversial Gun-Detection AI System Found Its Way to NYC

NYC mayor Eric Adams wants to test Evolv’s gun-detection tech in subway stations—despite the company saying it’s not designed for that environment. Emails obtained by WIRED show how the company still found an in...

San Francisco Police Want Real-Time Access to Private Surveillance Cameras

Surely no one could have predicted this: The new proposal--championed by Mayor London Breed after Novembers wild weekend of orchestrated burglaries and theft in the San Francisco Bay Area--would authorize the police department to use non-city-owned security cameras and camera networks to live...

LA Covers Up Bad Cybersecurity

This is bad in several dimensions. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has been accused of deliberately keeping widespread gaps in its cybersecurity a secret from regulators in a large-scale coverup involving the city's mayor...

FBI Takes Down Site With 12 Billion Stolen Records

Turkey gets Wikipedia back, Mayor Pete loses his cyberguy, and more of the week's top security news...

Cyber attack cripples networks in city of Pensacola days after shooting

By Waqas The city's Mayor Grover Robinson has acknowledged that an extensive cyber attack on Friday crippled several City services in Pensacola. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Cyber attack cripples networks in city of Pensacola days after shooting...

New Jersey mayor arrested for hacking recall website

New Jersey mayor arrested for hacking recall website The FBI last week arrested the mayor of the northern New Jersey town of West New York, together with his son, on charges of hacking into a website and a related email account that called for the mayor's recall. Felix Roque, 55, the mayor of Wes...

CapitalOne Bank taken down by Anonymous hackers

CapitalOne Bank taken down by Anonymous hackers Anonymous Hackers claim to taken down the official website of CapitalOne Bank. Currently Site is showing message on Homepage that "Site under maintenance". In a pastebin release Anonymous Hacker wrote "ya know.. every guy Fawkes day companies go hir...

FBI Probes AT&T iPad Goatse Email Leak

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has opened an investigation into the leak of an estimated 114,000 Apple iPad user e-mail addresses including those of Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, ABC ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer and NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Read the full article. IDG News Service...