FBI

How An Adobe Flaw Let Anonymous Into The FBI

Adobe users' passwords were stolen and the FBI got hit. Sean Michael Kerner smells password reuse

10 years ago

Silk Road Closure Causes Sharp Drop In Bitcoin Value

BTC goes from $142 to $118 after the FBI shuts down illegal online marketplace

11 years ago

FBI ‘Can Eavesdrop Via Android Phones, Laptops’

The FBI has reportedly expanded its use of hacking techniques, including the use of eavesdropping tools on smartphones and laptops,…

11 years ago

Electronic Frontier Foundation Sues The FBI

The non-profit organisation demands information about FBI’s Next Generation Identification biometrics database

11 years ago

Microsoft Removes Million PCs From Citadel Botnet Clutches

Microsoft has freed more than 1.2 million PCs from the control of the Citadel botnet and its criminal masters

11 years ago

Microsoft And FBI Hit 1,500 Citadel Botnets

Botnet takes a kicking but some think it will amount to just a chink in the fortress that is Citadel

11 years ago

Google Ordered To Comply With FBI Data Demands

The same judge who ruled National Security Letters were unconstitutional says Google should comply by them

11 years ago

FBI Warns Of DoS Attacks On Emergency Telephones

US authorities are warning about Telephone Denial of Service attacks against emergency telephone systems

11 years ago

US Court Says FBI Access To Private Data Unconstitutional

In a landmark case, court says National Security Letters should be banned

11 years ago

FBI: ‘Sextortion’ Hacker Coerced 350 Women Into Stripping

Accounts hacked and over 350 women coerced into taking their clothes off

11 years ago

Three Charged In Global Gozi Cybercrime Bust

UK cops help catch alleged Gozi banking malware pushers

11 years ago

Kim Dotcom’s Mega Fileshare Service Riddled With Security Holes

Is Mega handing encryption keys to users to protect itself from future legal problems?

11 years ago

SOCA Makes Arrest In £527m Butterfly Botnet Investigation

FBI, SOCA and Facebook looking to bring Yahos malware pushers down

11 years ago

CrowdStrike Wants UK Firms To Fight Cyber Crooks – But Is It ‘Nuts’?

When CrowdStrike CEO Shawn Henry calls on UK firms to fight back, is he inciting more cyber crime?

11 years ago

US Banks Warned Of Islamist Hacker Threat

Warning: hackers will take last week’s violent anti-US protests online

12 years ago

AntiSec Did Not Steal Apple UDID Codes From Us, Says FBI

If AntiSec is lying, where did the UDID codes come from?

12 years ago

AntiSec Hackers Steal 12M Apple UDID Identification Codes

AntiSec says it snatched UDIDs from the FBI. But why did the US authorities have them in the first place?

12 years ago

Second Alleged LulzSec Sony Hacker Arrested

The Sony security saga rolls on with another arrest

12 years ago

Former LulzSec Leader Gets Six Months Of Freedom

Sabu is rewarded for his cooperation with the FBI

12 years ago

US Feds Shut Down Pirate Android Apps Sellers

US and Europe take the fight to dealers of knock-off Android apps

12 years ago

FBI Warns Of Malware Posing As… The FBI

Reveton accuses victims of copyright infringement and asks for money

12 years ago

DNSChanger Doomsday Threatens To Take 300,000 Off The Web

As many as 20,000 machines in the UK could be cut off the net when the FBI pulls the plug

12 years ago

McAfee Offers DNSChanger Lifeline As Doomsday Approaches

DNSChanger servers are set to be cut off next Monday, as McAfee releases a tool to help those infected stay…

12 years ago

Global Credit Card Fraud Bust Sees 24 Arrested

FBI sting brings in 24 credit card scammers around the world, including six taken down in the UK

12 years ago

FBI Accused Of Illegal Conduct In Megaupload Case

Seven hard drives of evidence obtained by the US agents were not supposed to leave New Zealand, lawyers claim

12 years ago

FBI Warns Of Hotel Wi-Fi Malware Spread

An FBI body warns of malware being spread via hotel Wi-Fi connections

12 years ago

Report: FBI Seeking Internet Wiretap Backdoors

The FBI is pressuring Facebook, Google and other large Internet companies to build the technical infrastructure to allow wiretaps, according…

12 years ago

Megaupload Trial May Never Happen, Says US Judge

FBI failed to serve Megaupload with formal charges, a US judge has said

12 years ago

TeaMp0isoN Hacks MI6 Phones

Mischievous hacktivists phone-bomb the UK intelligence agency

12 years ago

LulzSec Claims Hack Of Military Dating Website

LulzSec has bounced back from the recent arrests and hacked a dating website for single people in the military

12 years ago