U.S. Soldier Charged in AT&T Hack Searched “Can Hacking Be Treason”

A U.S. Army soldier who pleaded guilty last week to leaking phone records for high-ranking U.S. government officials searched online for non-extradition countries and for an answer to the question "can hacking be treason?" prosecutors in the case said Wednesday. The government disclosed the detai...

U.S. Army Soldier Arrested in AT&T, Verizon Extortions

Federal authorities have arrested and indicted a 20-year-old U.S. Army soldier on suspicion of being Kiberphant0m , a cybercriminal who has been selling and leaking sensitive customer call records stolen earlier this year from AT &T and Verizon. As first reported by KrebsOnSecurity last month, th...

U.S. Govt. Apps Bundled Russian Code With Ties to Mobile Malware Developer

A recent scoop by Reuters revealed that mobile apps for the U.S. Army and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC were integrating software that sends visitor data to a Russian company called Pushwoosh, which claims to be based in the United States. But that story omitted an important...

Don Spies and Kim Grauer on tracking illicit Bitcoin transactions

In this episode of Security Nation, we’re joined by Don Spies and Kim Grauer of Chainalysis. They discuss the relationship between ransomware and cryptocurrency and how Chainalysis leverages unique characteristics of the latter to combat the former. Stick around for our Rapid Rundown, where Tod a...

TikTok Banned By U.S. Army Over China Security Concerns

With backlash swelling around TikTok’s relationship with China, the United States Army this week announced that U.S. soldiers can no longer have the social media app on government-owned phones. TikTok, a social media app used to create and share short form videos, is owned by Beijing-based parent...

DJI Launches Drone Bug Bounty Program

The lack of security in commercial drones has been well documented, but one Chinese manufacturer is working to fix that by incentivizing researchers who can poke holes in the software its drones run on. One of the largest unmanned aerial vehicle manufacturers, Dà-Jiāng Innovations Science and...

Hack the Army Bounty Pays Out $100,000

The U.S. Army on Thursday shared the outcome of its first bug bounty, which concluded a three-week trial on Dec. 21, calling the program a success. The Hack The Army bounty, announced last fall, was the second such government rewards program, debuting months after the conclusion of the Hack the...

Hack the Army Bug Bounty Focuses on Recruiting Websites

The backdrop to the U.S. government’s first public-facing bug bounty program announced earlier this year was that the Hack the Pentagon program was a way to connect with legitimate researchers and make a subtle plea for help. On Friday, Veterans Day, the U.S. Army became the second critical agenc...

TinKode sentenced by a Romanian court and $120000 Fine

"Cernaianu Manole Razvan" akka TinKode, the Romanian behind attacks against NASA, Oracle, the Pentagon, and U.S. Army, was sentenced this week to a two-year suspended sentence, according to local media reports and was ordered to pay damages totalling more than US$120,000. He was arrested in Janua...

NASA Hacker Arrested in Romania

Razvan Manole Cernaianu, perhaps better known as Tinkode, the hacker who gained notoriety after allegedly compromising a number of websites, including those of NASA, the European Space Agency, and Sun Microsystems, was recently arrested in Romania. According to a statement released by the Romania...

Hacker selling compromised websites gets hacked by d33ds

Hacker selling compromised websites gets hacked by d33ds A hacking group called d33ds broke into the online shop of a rival hacker who sells unauthorized access to high-profile websites and data. A hacker calling himself Srblche, also offered information stolen from websites belonging to the U.S...

You Have $ 500? You Can Buy A Hack For The Site Of U.S. Army !

If you are a criminal looking for total control of the World Wide Web, used by the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command CECOM, you can get it for just under $ 500 U.S. Or so we offer underground hackers in the forums. security provider Imperva found on the black market sales pitch on...

PFC Bradley Manning (U.S. Army)

Bradley Manning’s is the face that launched a hundred thousand leaks. The 22 year-old intelligence analyst for the U.S. Army’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division was stationed in Iraq when, allegedly, he downloaded hundreds of thousands of classified documents and video from SIPRnet,...