Two Texas Bills Could Shape Mobile Privacy

Two bills introduced in Texas this week could refine mobile privacy in the state and tweak how law enforcement can request sensitive information from cell phones going forward. A press release from the Texas Electronic Privacy Coalition TxEPC credits Bryan Hughes, a Republican from the town of...

Google For First Time Reports FBI Non-Warrant Requests for User Data

Google today revealed – if in vague terms – it last year received less than 1,000 “national Security letters” from federal authorities seeking financial and communications data on up to almost 2,000 individuals. The disclosure of such government requests marks a first for a major Internet service...

Hacker raided by FBI after leaking Microsoft next Xbox release information

FBI agents this week raided the home of a Australian hacker who recently leaked a slew of details about Microsoft's next release of Xbox console. "They just took all my computers my hard drives, all of my technology, they took my bank cards, credit cards, bank statements," he said. He had claimed...

Group behind largest Ransomware campaign arrested by Spanish police

Police in Spain have arrested a gang of 11 cyber criminals who used ransomware to demand money from thousands of victims in 30 countries using malware known as Reveton. Police arrested six Russians, two Ukrainians and two Georgians in the Costa del Sol. The gang leader, a 27-year-old Russian, was...

Google Complied With 88 Percent of U.S. User Data Requests

Google received more than 8,000 requests for user data from the U.S. government in the second half of 2012, and nearly all of them were the result of a subpoena or search warrant. The number of those requests that the company complied with by producing some or all of the data in question is still...

Pirate Bay Founder Arrested in Cambodia

Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, one of the founders of the file sharing website The Pirate Bay has been arrested in Cambodia after an international warrant was issued following a conviction in Sweden for copyright violations. The Swedish foreign ministry has confirmed only that a Swedish man "in his...

Three Baltic Men Jailed After Using SpyEye Malware

Two men found using the SpyEye Trojan to swindle users out of their banking information were jailed last week after violating the United Kingdom’s Computer Misuse Act. Pavel Cyganok, 28, a Lithuanian, along with Ilja Zakrevski, 26, an Estonian, were jailed for four years while a third man, Latvia...

Senator Seeks More Info On DOJ Location Tracking Practices

Senator Al Franken D-MN is demanding answers to questions about the U.S. Department of Justice DOJ practice of gathering data from wireless providers in order to monitor individuals’ movements using mobile phone location data. Franken released a copy of a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder on...

Feds Sidestep Controversy By Circumventing Device Encryption

A Colorado District Court Ruling to force the suspect in a fraud case to surrender the encryption key to her laptop was deemed unnecessary after federal authorities managed to circumvent the device’s encryption, Ars Technica reports. The development effectively ends what has been a controversial...

Court: Forced Hard Drive Decryption Doesn't Violate Fifth Amendment

In what may become a precedent setting digital rights ruling, Judge Robert Blackburn of the United States District Court of Colorado ruled that compelling an individual to provide access to the encrypted contents of a device does not violate the US Constitution’s prohibition of self incrimination...

US Supreme Court Ends Warrantless GPS Tracking

In a decision that was closeley watched by civil liberties group and the technology industry, the Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that GPS tracking devices constitute a “search” and that authorities must obtain a warrant before placing one on a suspect’s vehicle. In a rare 9-0 vote, the Court...

77 Law Enforcement websites hit in mass attack by #Antisec Anonymous

77 Law Enforcement websites hit in mass attack by Antisec Anonymous Because of FBI's actions against Anonymous and Lulzsec including several arrests, Now AntiSec supporters have targeted 77 law enforcement domains and walked away with everything on them. 77 domains were hosted on the same server...

Paypal gives FBI the list of IP Address of 1,000 Anomymous hackers

Paypal gives FBI the list of IP Address of 1,000 Anomymous hackers Paypal collected 1000 IP addresses of those carrying out Anonymous' DDoS attacks against PayPal last December. To be fair the names on the list will probably be the bottom feeding script kiddies rather than the hackers at the top ...

Ruling in Assange Extradition Case Expected Feb. 24,2011 !

Final arguments in the extradition hearing of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange were presented in a London court on Friday. The judge is expected to rule on February 24, but the case is likely to continue long afterward if either side files an appeal. Assange is being sought for questioning in...

Hacking Group Raided By FBI

FBI agents have raided the homes of three alleged members of a hacker gang that harassed a security expert who helped put the group’s leader in jail, according to a recently unsealed search warrant affidavit. Read the full article. Wired...