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Garland shooter linked to the CyberCaliphate group which hacked US CENTCOM

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Four days after shooting at Garland, where Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi were gunned down by authorities for opening fire, security agencies have found out that Elton Simpson was a online friend of CyberCaliphate co-founder Junaid Hussain.

Dave Wreski
May 07, 2015

US reviews use of cellphone spying technology

Faced with criticism from lawmakers and civil rights groups, the U.S. Department of Justice has begun a review of the secretive use of cellphone surveillance technology that mimics cellphone towers, and will get more open on its use, according to a newspaper report.

Anthony Pell
May 04, 2015

Congress, Crypto and Craziness

Crazy is never in short supply in Washington. Through lean times and boom times, regardless of who is in the White House or which party controls the Congress, the one resource that

Dave Wreski
May 01, 2015

House Passes Cybersecurity Bill Despite Privacy Protests

Congress is hellbent on passing a cybersecurity bill that can stop the wave of hacker breaches hitting American corporations. And they

Dave Wreski
Apr 24, 2015

Anonymous unleashes online petition against US info-sharing bills

Activist and hacktivist collective Anonymous has launched an online awareness-raising operation opposing pending controversial US information-sharing bills.

Dave Wreski
Apr 20, 2015

United Airlines Stops Researcher Who Tweeted about Airplane Network Security from Boarding Flight to

Our client, Chris Roberts, a founder of the security intelligence firm One World Labs, found himself detained by the FBI earlier this week after tweeting about airplane network security during a United Airlines flight. When Roberts landed in Syracuse, he was questioned by the FBI, which ultimately seized a number of his electronic devices.

Dave Wreski
Apr 19, 2015

Obama

Cybersecurity legislation, for the most part, is a good idea. But not without protections for bug bounty programs and other vital, proactive security research.

Dave Wreski
Apr 06, 2015

Cyberwar heats up in the Middle East

Two new malware campaigns have been spotted in the Middle East, according to reports released this week, one targeting energy companies and the other going after political targets in Israel and Lebanon.

Alex
Apr 03, 2015

EFF questions US government's software flaw disclosure policy

Anthony Pell
Mar 31, 2015

Feds Charged With Stealing Money During Silk Road Investigation

Two former federal agents who investigated the Silk Road, the infamous online drug marketplace seized by the FBI in 2013, have been charged for their own outrageous digital crimes, including stealing money they acquired on their druggie undercover assignment.

Dave Wreski
Mar 31, 2015

Threat-sharing cybersecurity bill unveiled

The House of Representatives Intelligence Committee has introduced a bill which will make sharing cybersecurity data easier for companies by removing the prospect of being sued.

Dave Wreski
Mar 25, 2015

What ever it is, CISA isn't cybersecurity

In the next couple months, Congress will likely pass CISA, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act. This is a bad police-state thing. It will do little to prevent attacks, but do a lot to increase mass surveillance.

Anthony Pell
Mar 20, 2015

The NSA Has Taken Over the Internet Backbone. We're Suing to Get it Back.

Every time you email someone overseas, the NSA copies and searches your message. It makes no difference if you or the person you're communicating with has done anything wrong. If the NSA believes your message could contain information relating to the foreign affairs of the United States

Dave Wreski
Mar 16, 2015

UK Gov SciTech advice bureau suggests keeping Tor alive to reduce street crime

The UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) has issued a POSTnote titled

Alex
Mar 10, 2015

Hacker Claims Feds Hit Him With 44 Felonies When He Refused to Be an FBI Spy

A year ago, the Department of Justice threatened to put Fidel Salinas in prison for the rest of his life for hacking crimes. But before the federal government brought those charges against him, Salinas now says, it tried a different tactic: recruiting him.

Dave Wreski
Feb 19, 2015

Major Video Game Companies Agree to Share Customer Data with the US Government

With or without controversial new legislation such as the Cybersecurity Information Sharing and Protection Act, President Obama is doing his best to make sure companies share the information they know about you with the federal government.

Dave Wreski
Feb 16, 2015

Obama looks for common ground with China on cyber issues

President Barack Obama has called for

Dave Wreski
Feb 11, 2015

The Pirate Bay responds to CDN and Moderation concerns, says it is not a FBI honeypot

The Pirate Bay to remove CloudFlare CDN soon after it gets its act straight, says TPB crew The Pirate Bay went live on 31st Jan, a day earlier than schedule but with the launch came concerns from users and die hard TPB fans regarding the use of CloudFlare content delivery network including its SSL service and lack of moderators on TPB.

Anthony Pell
Feb 06, 2015

Some hackers are unknowingly gathering intel for the NSA

The U.S. National Security Agency and its intelligence partners are reportedly sifting through data stolen by state-sponsored and freelance hackers on a regular basis in search of valuable information.

Anthony Pell
Feb 05, 2015

FBI put Anonymous 'hacktivist' Jeremy Hammond on terrorism watchlist

The prominent Anonymous

Alex
Feb 04, 2015

German State Abandons Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice

White House Warns: Move to Memory-Safe Languages

European Court of Human Rights Declares Backdoored Encryption Illegal