Category: fbi

Judge denies Twitter effort to reveal US surveillance requests

Post author By Randall
Post date April 18, 2020
Categories In department of justice, fbi, gear, Internet, justice department, law, national security, national security letters, News, Privacy, social network, social networking, surveillance, Tech, Twitter

[ad_1] The 2014 lawsuit followed months of unsuccessful negotiations for greater transparency in the wake of Edward Snowden’s leaks revealing much about US surveillance activities, including online. Twitter, along with other internet giants, had argued that providing more details would help users understand government activity and protect freedom of expression. The government’s argument appears to […]

NYT: $100 million US phone surveillance program produced two unique leads

Post author By Randall
Post date February 26, 2020
Categories In fbi, gear, nsa, Politics, section 215, Security, spying, surveillance, Tech, usa freedom act, william barr

[ad_1] After 2015, the USA Freedom Act replaced NSA mass surveillance of American’s call metadata that had been enacted under the Patriot Act and Section 215. While it didn’t go so far as to completely reform the system as groups like the EFF and ACLU hoped, it changed things by having phone companies collect the […]

Huawei accuses US Justice Department of ‘political persecution’

Post author By Randall
Post date February 14, 2020
Categories In business, cfo, fbi, gear, Huawei, indictment, intellectual property, justice department, Politics, Security, Tech, trade secrets

[ad_1] The company starts the statement by claiming that many of the criminal charges the US Justice Department announced yesterday are based on older civil disputes that have already been resolved in the past.”In these disputes, no court has ever found that Huawei had engaged in malicious intellectual property theft, or required Huawei to pay […]

Justice Department charges Huawei with stealing trade secrets, again

Post author By Randall
Post date February 13, 2020
Categories In business, cfo, charges, fbi, gear, Huawei, indictment, intellectual property, Internet, justice department, Politics, Security, Tech, theft, trade secrets, wanzhou meng

[ad_1] These new charges allege that Huawei has run a decades-long attempt to steal intellectual property from six specific but unnamed US companies. Huawei allegedly got its hands on trade secrets and copyrighted work by entering into and then breaking confidentiality agreements, recruiting employees from competitors and using professors as proxies. Huawei even offered bonuses […]

Puerto Rico’s government lost $2.6 million to a phishing scam

Post author By Randall
Post date February 13, 2020
Categories In Email, fbi, fraud, funds, gear, government, Internet, phishing, Politics, puerto rico, Scam, Security, Tech

[ad_1] Rubén Rivera, finance director of the island’s Industrial Development Company, told AP that the agency received an email alleging a change to a bank account tied to remittance payments. In response, the agency transferred the funds to the fake account. It’s still unclear how officials discovered the scam, if anyone has been dismissed or […]

DOJ letter reveals the FBI recently cracked an iPhone 11

Post author By Randall
Post date January 22, 2020
Categories In Apple, backdoor, encryption, fbi, gear, iphone 11, Security, Tech

[ad_1] While the Department of Justice, US attorney general and even the president continue to pressure Apple for additional technical support in unlocking iPhones tied to the naval base shooting in December, a letter reveals that the FBI recently cracked a password-protected iPhone 11. That phone belonged to Lev Parnas, an associate of the president’s […]

FBI seizes site dedicated to selling data breach information

Post author By Randall
Post date January 20, 2020
Categories In breach, fbi, gear, Security, Tech, weleakinfo

[ad_1] WeLeakInfo claimed to have over 12 billion usernames and passwords siphoned from around 10,300 breaches at various companies and websites. It had organized that information into an easily searchable database, letting users look up someone’s email address to find out what passwords, names, phone numbers and IP addresses were linked. The site offered access […]

Attorney General asks Apple to unlock naval base shooter’s iPhones

Post author By Randall
Post date January 13, 2020
Categories In Apple, attorney general, attorneygeneral, fbi, gear, Iphone, justice department, justicedepartment, pensacola, Politics, Privacy, Security, shooting, Tech, william barr, williambarr

[ad_1] Apple has given investigators details from Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani’s iCloud account, but it rejected a plea from the FBI to unlock the phones. The company has claimed complying with such a request could set a precedent that may compel it to unlock a device whenever a federal agency asks it to. The Justice Department […]

FBI asks Apple to help unlock iPhones of suspected naval station shooter

Post author By Randall
Post date January 7, 2020
Categories In Apple, fbi, gear, Iphone, Law Enforcement, Mobile, naval air station, passcode, pensacola, Politics, Privacy, Security, Tech

[ad_1] An official talking to NBC News said that Alsharmani appeared to have shot one of the iPhones, making access that much more difficult. It’s not clear jut how functional the device was afterward. In a statement, Apple said the FBI requested information a month earlier. It had given investigators “all of the data in […]

FBI program helps companies fool hackers with ‘decoy data’

Post author By Randall
Post date December 21, 2019
Categories In data breach, fbi, gear, hacking, idle, Internet, Law Enforcement, Security, Tech

[ad_1] Although the FBI isn’t sharing the finer details of how IDLE works, an official told Ars it mixes data within existing data structures to make it appear authentic. A hacker couldn’t just grab data in bulk and expect it all to be useful, and merely downloading the decoys could warn IT staff that something […]