The 23andMe User Data Leak May Be Far Worse Than Believed

Plus: IT workers secretly funnel money to North Korea, a court in the US upholds keyword search warrants, and WhatsApp gets a passwordless upgrade on Android...

Australian Hacker Charged with Creating, Selling Spyware to Cyber Criminals

A 24-year-old Australian national has been charged for his purported role in the creation and sale of spyware for use by domestic violence perpetrators and child sex offenders. Jacob Wayne John Keen, who currently resides at Frankston, Melbourne, is said to have created the remote access trojan R...

Google Report Spotlights Controversial ‘Geofence Warrants’ by Police

Newly released data by Google sheds light on a controversial practice called “geofence warrants”, which describes the practice of law enforcement requesting mobile phone data of users within close proximity of a crime. Google said, in an August report, the number of geofence warrants the company...

U.S. Supreme Court allows the FBI to Hack any Computer in the World

In Brief The US Supreme Court has approved amendments to Rule 41, which now gives judges the authority to issue search warrants, not only for computers located in their jurisdiction but also outside their jurisdiction. Under the original Rule 41, let’s say, a New York judge can only authorize the...

Police Raid alleged Bitcoin Creator Craig Wright's Home in Sydney

Just hours after the Australian man 'Craig Steven Wright' outed as the possible real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous creator of Bitcoin, Australian Police raided his home in Sydney. Over 10 police officers raided Wright's home in the Sydney suburbs on Wednesday afternoon. They...

Feds Change Policy to Require Warrant for Use of Stingrays

The Department of Justice has established a new policy that requires federal law enforcement agents–and state and local agencies working with the department–to obtain search warrants in order to use Stingray devices. The change is a major one, as agents will now need to show probable cause before...

CloudFlare Transparency Report Shows Spike in Court Orders

In its latest transparency report, CloudFlare says that the number of subpoenas it has received has remained steady since last year, but the volume of court orders has more than doubled since the second half of last year. While much of the data from CloudFlare’s report for the first half of 2015...

Snapchat Publishes First Transparency Report

Snapchat has released its first transparency report, covering a four-month period from November through February, and the data shows that the company didn’t receive any National Security Letters and got fewer than 400 total requests for data from the United States government. Snapchat, a Californ...

Government Requests for Facebook User Data Increasing

Facebook’s latest transparency report shows that U.S law enforcement agencies issued a greater number of total requests for user data related to criminal investigations in the first six months of 2014 than they have over any previous such period. This report, per Justice Department reporting...

Dropbox Publishes 2013 Transparency Report

Dropbox yesterday released a new set of principles that explain how it deals with government requests for customer data. The principles were a companion to its 2013 Transparency Report, which for the first time included National Security Letter requests made to the file hosting service. “We belie...

microsoft disrupts zeroaccess botnet

Microsoft’s crusade against botnets raged on yesterday as the Redmond, Wash., computer giant and a coalition of law enforcement agencies and Internet security companies disrupted the notorious ZeroAccess botnet. ZeroAccess, or Sirefef as Microsoft likes to call it, is a malware platform that...

Is it hard to crack full Disk Encryption For Law Enforcement ?

Is it hard to crack full Disk Encryption For Law Enforcement ? If you'd rather keep your data private, take heart: disk encryption is a lot harder to break than techno-thriller movies and TV shows make it out to be, to the chagrin of some branches of law enforcement. MrSeb writes with word of a...

111 Arrested for biggest identity theft and credit card fraud Case

111 Arrested for biggest identity theft and credit card fraud Case One of the biggest identity theft and credit card fraud cases in history has generated millions of dollars in losses to date. 111 individuals have been indicted in the largest identity theft takedown in U.S. history. "This is by f...

FBI Arrests two Suspected LulzSec and Anonymous Hackers

FBI Arrests Suspected LulzSec and Anonymous Hackers Search warrants were also being executed in New Jersey, Minnesota and Montana. The FBI arrested two alleged members of the hacking collectives LulzSec and Anonymous on Thursday morning in San Francisco and Phoenix, According to Fox news. The...

CATANIA Airport website hacked, MOROCCAN Suspected !

Catania - The Postal & Communications Police Department of Catania, coordinated by the city's DA office, has a suspect. The person investigated is a 22-year old Moroccan national residing in Lucca, who is considered to be responsible for the hacking attack that made inaccessible for a few hours t...

FBI Conducts Search Warrants At 40 "anonymous" Supporters Wikileaks !

The FBI announced today that they have executed over 40 search warrants in connection with the UK Metropolitan Police against Wikileaks DDoS'ing participants of "enemies." Unlike police met, the FBI did not reveal many details about who may have executed the arrest warrants against, or more...