Two arrested over Fine Gael website hack, subsequently released without charge
Arrested individuals may have had links with Anonymous hacker group Two teenagers were arrested early this morning on suspicion of hacking Fine Gael’s website in January of this year and allegedly...
View ArticleFileSonic disables sharing in wake of MegaUpload shut-down
FileSonic has disabled its public file sharing service in the wake of MegaUpload’s very public shut-down late last week. Instead, users are limited to only being able to retrieve files that they have...
View ArticleFive leading members of LulzSec arrested or further charged, including two...
Sabu: LulzSec leader turned tout? A cross-continent operation this morning has resulted in the arrest of three alleged members of hacker group LulzSec, with two other alleged members charged with...
View ArticleCompromised Garda Gmail account gave hackers access to FBI/Scotland Yard...
Hackers were able to intercept a classified online phone call between the FBI and the UK’s Scotland Yard in January because a member of An Garda Síochána, the Irish national police force, forwarded an...
View ArticleUp to one million malware-infected users face internet blackout on July 9
DNSChanger is often a hidden threat Up to one million users face an internet blackout on July 9 as managed malicious DNS servers are due to be shut down. The rogue DNS servers are currently in the...
View ArticlePropaganda Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: The Govt Infiltration of US Media
The US Government pays $500 million to PR firm for fake news propaganda on Iraq as intelligence agencies rationalize the impersonation of journalists in a reboot of Operation Mockingbird. The idea that...
View ArticleUS Intelligence paranoia creeps into tech industry, Yahoo is just the latest
US intelligence agencies can’t seem to keep their noses out of private citizen information, becoming more paranoid about the size and scope of their operations. The extent to which the NSA, FBI, and...
View ArticleTwo arrested over Fine Gael website hack, subsequently released without charge
Arrested individuals may have had links with Anonymous hacker group Two teenagers were arrested early this morning on suspicion of hacking Fine Gael’s website in January of this year and allegedly...
View ArticleFileSonic disables sharing in wake of MegaUpload shut-down
FileSonic has disabled its public file sharing service in the wake of MegaUpload’s very public shut-down late last week. Instead, users are limited to only being able to retrieve files that they have...
View ArticleFive leading members of LulzSec arrested or further charged, including two...
Sabu: LulzSec leader turned tout? A cross-continent operation this morning has resulted in the arrest of three alleged members of hacker group LulzSec, with two other alleged members charged with...
View ArticleCompromised Garda Gmail account gave hackers access to FBI/Scotland Yard...
Hackers were able to intercept a classified online phone call between the FBI and the UK’s Scotland Yard in January because a member of An Garda Síochána, the Irish national police force, forwarded an...
View ArticleUp to one million malware-infected users face internet blackout on July 9
DNSChanger is often a hidden threat Up to one million users face an internet blackout on July 9 as managed malicious DNS servers are due to be shut down. The rogue DNS servers are currently in the...
View ArticlePropaganda Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: The Govt Infiltration of US Media
The US Government pays $500 million to PR firm for fake news propaganda on Iraq as intelligence agencies rationalize the impersonation of journalists in a reboot of Operation Mockingbird. The idea that...
View ArticleUS Intelligence paranoia creeps into tech industry, Yahoo is just the latest
US intelligence agencies can’t seem to keep their noses out of private citizen information, becoming more paranoid about the size and scope of their operations. The extent to which the NSA, FBI, and...
View ArticleFBI allowed to continue secretly obtaining your data from tech companies: court
The FBI will be allowed to continue issuing National Security Letters (NSLs) under nondisclosure laws according to a ruling by a San Francisco U.S. federal appeals court. Content distribution firm...
View ArticleFBI Special Agent and NATO Cybersecurity Director to Discuss Threats to...
FBI Special Agent Aristedes Mahairas and NATO Cyber Defense Director Christian Lifländer will analyze and discuss cybersecurity threats to businesses on May 22 in Madrid, Spain. Cyber attacks are...
View ArticleAI, Machine Learning open new possibilities into JFK assassination research
Just as the US government released a new batch of declassified documents last month regarding the JFK assassination, Microsoft began using Machine Learning and AI to make sense of handwritten...
View ArticleUS intelligence finds no infrastructural evidence enabling election disruption
“Currently, we do not have any evidence of a compromise or disruption of infrastructure that would enable adversaries to prevent voting, change vote counts or disrupt our ability to tally votes in the...
View ArticleIntelligence community can’t keep up with FOIA requests: IG report
The US Intelligence Community (IC), including the CIA, FBI, NSA, and others cannot keep up with the amount of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests due to a lack of organization and inadequate...
View ArticleFBI moved counterterrorism data to AWS after Las Vegas massacre
The FBI moved its Counterterrorism Division data to Amazon Web Services (AWS) following the Las Vegas massacre in 2017, according to Deputy Assistant Director Christine Halvorsen. Speaking at AWS...
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