pcTattletale Founder Bryan Fleming Pleads Guilty in Federal Stalkerware Case

Bryan Fleming, founder of pcTattletale, pleads guilty in a landmark federal spying case. Read how an undercover HSI sting and a data breach ended a decade of illegal stalkerware sales...

Huawei and Chinese Surveillance

This quote is from House of Huawei: The Secret History of China 's Most Powerful Company. "Long before anyone had heard of Ren Zhengfei or Huawei, Wan Runnan had been China's star entrepreneur in the 1980s, with his company, the Stone Group, touted as "China's IBM." Wan had believed that economic...

EUVD-2007-0338

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CVE-2007-0336

Undercover.app/Contents/Resources/uc in Rixstep Undercover allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files, probably related to a race condition...

This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops

Massive Blue is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters.”...

Story of an Undercover CIA Agent who Penetrated Al Qaeda

Rolling Stone has a long investigative story non-paywalled version here about a CIA agent who spent years posing as an Islamic radical. Unrelated, but also in the "real life spies" file: a fake Sudanese diving resort run by Mossad...

Would-be hitman busted after being fooled by parody website

A member of the Air National Guard is facing federal charges after applying for a job online as an assassin. According to a Justice Department press release, Josiah Ernesto Garcia from Hermitage, Tennessee, was arrested by an undercover federal agent at a park on April 12, 2023. The FBI affidavit...

NSA Employee Charged with Espionage

An ex-NSA employee has been charged with trying to sell classified data to the Russians but instead actually talking to an undercover FBI agent. Its a weird story, and the FBI affidavit raises more questions than it answers. The employee only worked for the NSA for three weeks--which is weird in...

Couple sold nuclear warship data hidden in peanut butter sandwich

By Deeba Ahmed The couple used a bubble gum package and peanut butter sandwich to hide SD card with sensitive data and sell it to undercover FBI agents. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Couple sold nuclear warship data hidden in peanut butter sandwich...

Extremist Charged With Plot to Blow Up Amazon Data Centers

The FBI arrested the suspect in Texas after he purchased explosives from an undercover agent...

Kali Linux 2019.4 Release - Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking Linux Distribution

We are incredibly excited to announce our fourth and final release of 2019, Kali Linux 2019.4. 2019.4 includes some exciting new updates: A new default desktop environment, Xfce New GTK3 theme for Gnome and Xfce Introduction of “Kali Undercover” mode Kali Documentation has a new home and is now G...

Latest Kali Linux OS Added Windows-Style Undercover Theme for Hackers

You can relate this: While working on my laptop, I usually prefer sitting at a corner in the room from where no one should be able to easily stare at my screen, and if you're a hacker, you must have more reasons to be paranoid. Let's go undercover: If you're in love with the Kali Linux operating...

Latest Kali Linux OS Added Windows-Style Undercover Theme for Hackers

You can relate this: While working on my laptop, I usually prefer sitting at a corner in the room from where no one should be able to easily stare at my screen, and if you're a hacker, you must have more reasons to be paranoid. Let's go undercover: If you're in love with the Kali Linux operating...

UPDATE: Kali Linux 2019.4 Release

Kali Linux 2019.4 is now available in the last quarter of this year and what an update this is! This is the fourth 2019 release, which comes after Kali Linux 2019.3. It comes packed with a new theme, improved desktop environment, a new Kali Undercover mode, full Kali desktop on NetHunter, and mor...

World’s largest child porn site was run by police for undercover op

By Carolina Dark web is home to explicit and illegal content including child This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Worlds largest child porn site was run by police for undercover op...

FBI 'Double Agent' Pleads Guilty to Selling 'Classified Information' to China

An FBI electronics technician has pleaded guilty to acting as a Chinese secret agent and passing along sensitive information about the Feds to a Chinese government official. Kun Shan "Joey" Chun, 46, admitted in federal court in Manhattan on Monday that he violated his security clearance on sever...

Kickass Torrents — Domain Names Seized! Owner Arrested! Website Goes Down!

The federal authorities have finally arrested the alleged mastermind behind the world's largest and most notorious BitTorrent distribution site Kickass Torrents KAT, the US Justice Department announced on Wednesday. After The Pirate Bay had suffered copyright infringement hardship, Kickass Torren...

Stuxnet Had Older, More Complex Variant

Stuxnet was a two-headed beast as it turns out, one that could have laid waste to the Natanz nuclear facility which it infected, and one that should have, by expert accounts, remained undetected if not for the noisier yet less complex second attack routine that is now familiar to the world...

Reuters Editor Indicted for Allegedly Helping Hackers Break Into Tribune Co.

UPDATE — One of Matthew Keys’ lawyers told The Huffington Post on Friday that his client was working as an “undercover” journalist when he engaged members of Anonymous in an IRC channel offering login credentials for Tribune Co. servers. Keys, 26, of Secaucas, N.J., was suspended with pay from...