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FBI Warns Firms Over Malware-Riddled USB Sticks
If you received a free USB stick in the post, would you put it into your PC? – It’s honestly a tricky question to answer. While many of us ‘in the know’ would clearly recognise this as a potentially very bad idea, and particularly so if we were uncertain about…
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FBI Shuts Down 15 DDoS ‘Service’ Websites
FBI Shuts Down 15 DDoS Websites DDoS attacks are a regular issue for many online websites and companies. For those of you who have never heard the term before, I’ll try and explain it in it’s simplest terms. Websites are designed to handle certain numbers of people visiting them. The…
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Mirai Botnet Hackers Are Working for the FBI in Order to Skip Prison
They’re doing a pretty good job so far. We’ve reported on the Mirai botnet before, as it performed some particularly nasty attacks a few years ago. More specifically, Mirai targeted highly popular services such as Twitter, Netflix, and Reddit. However, it looks like the botnet’s creators were eventually identified and…
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FBI Charges Gamer With Stealing Fifa Currency From EA
FBI Charges Gamer With Stealing Fifa Currency From EA It can be a quite difficult affair to get a decent team in FIFA. Costly too presuming you don’t want to go through the monotonous grind of earning coins. It seems, however, that one user decided to take it upon himself…
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Marketing Firm Exactis Leaks Personal Info of Almost Entire US
340 Million Individual Records Exactis is not a company name many Americans are familiar with. However, judging by the size of the latest data leak discovered by security researchers, they certainly know many Americans. Exactis is a marketing data and aggregation firm, based out of Palm Coast, Florida. Researcher Vinny…
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FBI Recommend Router Reboot To Flush Out Malware
FBI Issues Statement Recommending Router Reboot to Flush Out Malware For any home or particularly small business, where security may not be so tight, the existence of malware or spyware is a concern. With them being potentially able to monitor your traffic or keyboard inputs, keeping a tight ship can…
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Geek Squad Staff Were Paid FBI Agents Spying On Customers
Geek Squad In the US, a popular source for PC repairs for the masses was available in Geek Squad. The company, usually ran from locations such as ‘Best Buys’ offered people the opportunity to bring in their computers to be diagnosed and/or fixed. While the company has been subject to…
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Fired IT Admin Faces 10 Years in Prison for Wiping Servers
A former system administrator who wiped staff credentials from the servers of the company that fired him could face up to ten years in prison. After Joe Vito Venzor was fired by boot manufacturer Lucchese in September last year, he became “volatile” and was forcefully evicted from the building after…
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Snowden’s Favourite Encrypted E-Mail Service Returns
Lavabit, the encrypted e-mail service that was favoured by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden before it closed down, has returned after three years in the wilderness. Back in 2013, Lavabit founder Ladar Levison closed the service rather than hand over its encryption keys to the FBI – which was investigating Snowden…
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FBI Pays Geek Squad to Report on Customers’ Computers
The FBI has reportedly been paying members of Best Buy’s Geek Squad – effectively a tech support service – to look for data that may relate to criminal activities on the PCs of customers that they are meant to be fixing, according to OCWeekly. Incentives are being offered by the…
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Dark Web – The Silk Road Movie Being Written by Coen Brothers
It looks like Fox is preparing to make a movie called “Dark Web” which will focus on the Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht! Not only that, but the studio has signed on the talents of the Coen brothers to write it for them, which will be based on the Wired…
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Yahoo Secretly Scanned Customer Emails for US Government
In a staggering revelation today, a new report has surfaced regarding the struggling tech firm Yahoo. According to the revelations by former employees, in 2015, the company built a custom software program to scan all of their user emails. More critically, the move was done at the behest of a classified…
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FBI Director Advises Everyone to Cover Their Webcams
Earlier this year, FBI Director James Comey was snapped with a piece of tape covering the webcam built into the screen of his laptop. Comey admitted that he was “much mocked” for putting tape on his webcam, but that he still does it and advises anyone with an embedded laptop…
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Internet-Connected Home PCs Not Private Says US Court
Home computer users should have no expectation of privacy if their system is connected to the internet, a federal judge from the Eastern District of Virginia has ruled. The ruling concerns the FBI’s infiltration of PlayPen, a hidden Tor service that facilitated the exploitation of children, and subsequent complaints from…
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The FBI is Allowed to Hack Anyone Anywhere!
When it comes to questionable legal practices, the FBI almost has a storybook written on it. From their part in the PRISM program, monitoring and tracking people from all over the world, the FBI became known for their questionable tactics, made worse so by the revelation that they had hacked…
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