Here’s What a Google Subpoena Response Looks Like, Courtesy of the Epstein Files

The US Justice Department disclosures give fresh clues about how tech companies handle government inquiries about your data...

The Constitutionality of Geofence Warrants

The US Supreme Court is considering the constitutionality of geofence warrants. The case centers on the trial of Okello Chatrie, a Virginia man who pleaded guilty to a 2019 robbery outside of Richmond and was sentenced to almost 12 years in prison for stealing $195,000 at gunpoint. Police probing...

FBI Wants to Know Who Runs Archive.ph

The FBI has issued a federal subpoena to domain registrar Tucows, demanding extensive billing and session records to unmask the anonymous operator of Archive.ph Archive.is and Archive.today. The site, known for bypassing paywalls, is now the subject of an undisclosed criminal investigation...

FBI: Spike in Hacked Police Emails, Fake Subpoenas

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI is urging police departments and governments worldwide to beef up security around their email systems, citing a recent increase in cybercriminal services that use hacked police email accounts to send unauthorized subpoenas and customer data requests to...

Fake Emergency Search Warrants Draw Scrutiny from Capitol Hill

On Tuesday, KrebsOnSecurity warned that hackers increasingly are using compromised government and police department email accounts to obtain sensitive customer data from mobile providers, ISPs and social media companies. Today, one of the U.S. Senates most tech-savvy lawmakers said he was trouble...

Signal app insists it’s so private it can’t provide subpoenaed call data

Signal—the private, end-to-end encrypted messaging app that surged in popularity in recent months—once again reminded criminal investigators that it could not fully comply with a legal request for user records and communications because of what it asserts as a simple, unchanging fact: The records...

Fake supreme court subpoena phishing scam steals Office 365 credentials

By Sudais Asif The new phishing scams redirect users multiple times and also uses CAPTCHA before stealing credentials. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Fake supreme court subpoena phishing scam steals Office 365 credentials...

You've Been Served…with Subpoena-Themed Phishing Emails

A phishing campaign claiming to deliver emailed subpoenas is targeting insurance and retail companies. According to researchers, the phishing emails are spoofing the UK Ministry of Justice, aiming to capitalize on scare tactics to convince targets to click on an embedded link to “learn more about...

How Privacy Laws Hurt Defendants

Rebecca Wexler has an interesting op-ed about an inadvertent harm that privacy laws can cause: while law enforcement can often access third-party data to aid in prosecution, the accused don't have the same level of access to aid in their defense: The proposed privacy laws would make this situatio...

Privacy Advocates Say Kelsey Smith Act Gives Police Too Much Power

The delicate balancing act between security and privacy is once again being tested. A bill making its way through Congress seeks to allow law enforcement to more easily uncover location data for cell phones from mobile carriers. The Kelsey Smith Act H.R. 5983 and S. 2973 would allow police and...

A week in security (July 2 – July 8)

Last week, we tracked back a large mining operation from their Coinhive shortlink, we took a look at online project management tools, we described a new macro-less technique to distribute malware, and talked about a Mac malware that targets crypto-mining users. Other news: Huawei enterprise comms...

Disappearing Messages Added to Signal App

The Signal encrypted messaging application on Tuesday added disappearing messages to its array of privacy features. Disappearing messages gives users the ability to designate how long conversations live on respective devices. And while developer Moxie Marlinspike said the feature won’t necessaril...

Subpoena for Signal Messaging Data Renders Little

Open Whisper Systems, the non-profit group behind the encrypted messaging app Signal, was served with a subpoena for user data earlier this year but since the company keeps such little information on its users, it was unable to produce most of what it was asked for. The American Civil Liberties...

Signal is Most Secure Messenger, 'Useless Data' Obtained by FBI Proves It All

Do you trust your messaging app even though it uses end-to-end encryption? As I previously said end-to-end encryption doesn't mean that your messages are secure enough to hide your trace. It's because most of the messaging apps still record and store a lot of metadata on your calls and messages...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID21327: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on February 24, 2016

Medium Alert ID: 43737 First Published: 2016 February 24 20:22 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID21327 may contain the following files: Name |...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID17459: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on August 19, 2015

Medium Alert ID: 40582 First Published: 2015 August 19 15:27 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID17459 may contain the following files: Name |...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID16904: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on July 23, 2015

Medium Alert ID: 40119 First Published: 2015 July 24 22:15 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID16904 may contain the following files: Name | Siz...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID16060: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on June 18, 2015

Medium Alert ID: 39417 First Published: 2015 June 18 17:09 GMT Last Updated: 2015 June 19 12:57 GMT Version: 2 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID16060 and...

Secret warrant forced Google to hand over WikiLeaks Volunteer's Data to Feds

According to the court records released this week on web, The Justice Department used a secret search warrant to obtain the entire contents of a Gmail account used by a former WikiLeaks volunteers in Iceland. Smari McCarthy and Herbert Snorrason, are the two Icelandic freedom of information...

Secret warrant forced Google to hand over WikiLeaks Volunteer’s Data to Feds

According to the court records released this week on web, The Justice Department used a secret search warrant to obtain the entire contents of a Gmail account used by a former WikiLeaks volunteers in Iceland. Smari McCarthy and Herbert Snorrason, are the two Icelandic freedom of information...