Tag: FBI

February 17, 2022

FBI issued a warning against the rising smartphone hijacking campaigns or SIM swapping hacks. Right now, this sophisticated scam technique is still affecting many phone owners across the globe. Unlike malware, ransomware, and other complicated malicious campaigns, this hijacking method […]

January 22, 2020

The thing that convulsed the internet for much of yesterday was this Reuters report that Apple decided against throwing away its keys to users’ encrypted iCloud backups after the FBI complained about encryption. The word “after” does a lot of […]

January 15, 2020

Apple is reportedly preparing for a bizarre legal battle with the FBI over its demands for the Cupertino company to help it break into two iPhones used by the Pensacola Naval Air Station shooter. The company was previously prepared to […]

January 14, 2020

Attorney General William Barr has called on Apple to help the FBI beat the password-protection system used on all iPhones to access data of the gunman accused of shooting three Navy personnel at a base in Florida in December. Barr […]

October 9, 2017

An internet stalker in the US has been tracked down by the FBI thanks to help from the VPN provider PureVPN which assisted the government agency by combing through its logs to reveal the IP address of the suspect. On […]

October 31, 2016

Top aides to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton angrily condemned FBI Director James Comey on Sunday for revealing the bureau’s probe of newly found emails related to her use of a private server, and demanded he quickly release details about […]

April 27, 2016

Last week, a Massachusetts judge threw out evidence obtained via a piece of malware in the FBI’s mass hack of visitors to a dark web child pornography site. On Monday, a judge recommended that evidence should also be suppressed in […]

April 25, 2016

The U.S. government believes the Internet of Things (IoT) has enormous economic potential across all industries. Its machine-to-machine technologies can reduce automobile-related injuries, usher in an era of precise weather forecasting and automate all types of processes. But what impact […]

April 1, 2016

Apple’s next big encryption battle with the federal government appears to be unfolding in a largely secret court case in Massachusetts involving an FBI bust of a gang called the Columbia Point Dawgz. Thursday, the American Civil Liberties Union filed […]

March 11, 2016

The US Attorney filed its answer to Apple in the San Bernardino iPhone case on Thursday, claiming that their battle in court is “the direct result of Apple’s deliberate marketing decision to engineer its products so that the government cannot […]

February 24, 2016

As Apple continues to resist FBI demands to unlock a terrorist suspect’s phone, it raises a question: What if Amazon Web Services was ordered to provide access to a customer’s cloud? Would AWS hand the data over to the feds? […]

February 18, 2016

Apple’s refusal to comply with a court order to provide the FBI with a backdoor into the iPhone has opened a new chapter in the debate of security vs privacy. Throw in a scathing letter by Apple CEO Tim Cook, […]

November 25, 2015

The FBI has managed to link the theft of a frankly staggering 1.2 billion log-in credentials to a single hacker, after finding a Russian email address within reams of data obtained by security researchers. Reuters reports that documents made public […]

November 19, 2015

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), in response to claims that it was paid at least $1 million by the FBI to perform an attack on Tor, has finally issued a statement about the situation. The university does not deny providing the […]