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Anonymous hackers breached the news website of the Boston Police Department (bpdnews.com) as a form of protest against the eviction of protesters of Occupy Boston. Representatives of the BPD retaliated not with brute-force, but with an amusing video that reveals their reactions to the news that the site got hacked.
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10 February 2012
05:22 GMT |
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As part of their operations against law enforcement agencies, Anonymous hackers breached the sites of the Alabama Department of Public Safety, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and the Mobile Police Department, also based in Alabama, leaking information from their databases.
DataBreaches sums up the hacks nicel... |
10 February 2012
04:58 GMT |
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As a result of an investigation conducted by the US Secret Service’s New York Field Office, a number of 12 individuals were charged by the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York after presumably participating in a cell phone cloning scheme that earned them $250 million (175 million EUR).
“Thes... |
8 February 2012
03:40 GMT |
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Classic bank fraud schemes are far from being history, but they're constantly improving. This is proved by two men who were arrested by police officers on suspicion of installing a skimming device at a Chase Bank in Thousand Oaks, California.
KTLA reports that the suspects, 31-year-old Aram Dzhanszyan and Ter M... |
7 February 2012
15:51 GMT |
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Ramona Fricosu, the woman ordered by a court to decrypt the contents of her laptop until February 21, revealed through the voice of her lawyer that she might have forgotten the password to the encrypted drive. According to Wired, the defendant hasn’t taken this position in court, but her attorney states that p... |
7 February 2012
02:54 GMT |
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Just like the famous hacker Kevin Mitnick spied on the FBI agents that were investigating him back in the days when he used to illegally access the networks of phone companies, Anonymous hacktivist obtained a recording of a conference call between FBI agents and UK law enforcement officers.
A Pastebin document reve... |
3 February 2012
10:20 GMT |
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The Department of Homeland Security’s ICE unit has kept itself busy these days launching an operation called “Operation Fake Sweep” in preparation of the Super Bowl that’s about to take place this weekend.
According to TorrentFreak, authorities didn’t initially admit that the seizures ... |
3 February 2012
08:16 GMT |
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Following the Megaupload closure, law enforcement agencies worldwide have begun following on the footsteps of US agencies, shutting down websites that were considered to store or share copyrighted materials.
According to Kyiv Post, on January 31, Ukrainian police terminated the activity of a popular file hosting ser... |
2 February 2012
10:02 GMT |
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As promised, we return with more information on the story of the famous grey hat hacker TinKode, who is apparently a 20-year old student that didn’t spend too much time in class and even failed IT Fundamentals, the only exam he attended. According to a statement of the Romanian Directorate for Investigating O... |
1 February 2012
11:04 GMT |
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TinKode, the famous grey hat, was arrested today in Romania by the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT), being accused of hacking into some major US websites.
His real name is Manole Răzvan Cernăianu, but for most people in the world he’s known as TinKode, the hacker that manage... |
31 January 2012
11:23 GMT |
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A 22-year-old student from Poland was arrested after being suspected of breaching and defacing the official website of the country’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk, as part of the anti-ACTA online protests.
According to VOGH, Lucasz S. was apprehended in the city of Wrocla, but denied having any involvement with t... |
30 January 2012
04:59 GMT |
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Two suspects, aged 26 and 36, were arrested in Paris, France, after being suspected of launching distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks on Electricité de France (EDF), a leading electricity supplier, several times. According to FranceInfo the men are accused of launching attacks on April 20 and April 23... |
27 January 2012
08:09 GMT |
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In a case that may set a controversial precedent, a woman accused of financial fraud was ordered by a court to provide the prosecution incriminatory data stored on her encrypted laptop computer.
According to Wired, Colorado U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn ruled that the Fifth Amendement is “not implicated... |
24 January 2012
06:19 GMT |
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One of the programmers contracted to develop a piece of software called Government-Wide Accounting and Reporting Program (GWA) for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY) has been arrested for stealing part of the source code for which the United States spent $9.5 Million (€6.6 Million).
The FBI released a... |
19 January 2012
10:27 GMT |
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Panda Labs researchers came across another wave of ransomware attacks that pose as official warnings from law enforcement agencies, threatening users that their systems are held hostage until a fine is paid.
The experts believe that a single cybercriminal gang may be behind the malicious operations that target citiz... |
19 January 2012
06:44 GMT |
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Two Russians, father and son, have been extradited from Switzerland to the US after they were caught running a fraudulent operation which helped them illegally earn a few hundred thousand dollars.
According to the FBI, 54-year-old Vladimir Zdorovenin and his son Kirill Zdorovenin now face charges of conspiracy, mail... |
19 January 2012
04:00 GMT |
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A number of 232 hard drives containing confidential information on Brighton General Hospital patients were stolen from a locked storage facility, where they were being decommissioned, and put up for sale on eBay.
The Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust appointed the Sussex Health Informatics Service t... |
11 January 2012
05:16 GMT |
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We recently learned that the large number of hacking operations that took place in China may have exposed as many as 100 million individuals, but police investigations revealed that most of the cybercriminal activities were in fact made up or committed by actors who were actually working for the breached companies. ... |
11 January 2012
04:09 GMT |
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It may be hard to believe, but a hacking operation that targeted the computer networks of Germany’s federal police, last summer, began after an officer wanted to spy on his daughter.
The Local reports that an officer placed a Trojan on his daughter’s computer to monitor her Internet activity. A hacker,... |
10 January 2012
11:17 GMT |
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A Romanian man is charged by a court of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and bank fraud after he was arrested for running a card-skimming operation involving HSBC automated teller machines (ATMs) in New York.
Laurentiu Iulian Bulat is accused of placing skimming devices at 40 ATMs belonging to the New York branch o... |
7 January 2012
05:46 GMT |
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As part of Project Mayhem, AntiSec hackers took down the official website of the California Law Enforcement Association (cslea.com). Currently, the website is still down and the attackers claim that other websites hosted on the same domain are also “wiped off the net.”
Besides defacing the website and po... |
3 January 2012
04:30 GMT |
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Police arrested a man from East Heaven, Connecticut, after the staff members of a computer repair shop found that he had accessed child abuse websites from his personal computer.
According to EastHeavenPatch, at the beginning of 2011 authorities were informed by the Sherman Avenue computer repair store that they unc... |
28 December 2011
05:42 GMT |
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CopSeek.com, a directory of law enforcement links, products, news and police employment job boards, is the latest victim of Anonymous, one of the most active hacker collectives during this holiday season.
Email addresses and passwords belonging to their customers ended up being published in a Pastebin file, just lik... |
27 December 2011
09:43 GMT |
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Gabriella Graham, a 21-year-old woman, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud in front of a judge, after prosecutors found her to be part of a gang of crooks that installed skimming devices at ATMs belonging to banks in southern New England.
A number of 11 banks and a credit union were target... |
21 December 2011
10:35 GMT |
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Ransomware, a piece of malware that makes a computer useless until the victim pays a certain amount of money allegedly needed to make it useable again, has been seen targeting the citizens of many countries, and to make everything seem more realistic, crooks involve the name of the local law enforcement authorities. ... |
19 December 2011
09:11 GMT |
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) charged 16 individuals with wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering and criminal forfeiture after they were identified as selling fictitious vehicles online. On December 14, thirteen of the suspects were apprehended in Las Vegas and... |
19 December 2011
04:27 GMT |
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An operation codenamed Icarus, coordinated by Europol, resulted in the identification of 269 individuals suspected of being online child predators and the arrest of close to half of them. A joint action of law enforcement agencies from 26 European countries that targeted child abuse file-sharing networks was a great... |
19 December 2011
03:50 GMT |
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The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) in collaboration with the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) apprehended a 54 year old Ukrainian retired general and two of his accomplices while they were trying to withdraw $1 million (700,000 EUR) from CEC Bank, money obtained as a result of cyberfraud operations. Valer... |
16 December 2011
11:14 GMT |
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Victoria Police raided the headquarters of The Age newspaper, seizing computers and documents with the purpose of finding evidence to prove that journalists illegally hacked into the computers belonging to the Australian Labor Party (ALP).
Last year in November, after being alerted by a whistleblower, The Age journa... |
16 December 2011
08:54 GMT |
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Attorney General Kamala D. Harris recently presented the California Department of Justice’s new unit, purposed to investigate and prosecute technology crimes. The eCrime Unit will rely on the latest innovations to make sure the number of cyberfraud incidents will drop.
“Today's criminals increasingl... |
15 December 2011
05:12 GMT |
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Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania warn that certain radios and other communication devices currently used by law enforcement agencies can be attacked using a variety of methods.This the conclusion of a two-year-long study into the security of wireless communication protocols developed as APCO Project 25... |
11 August 2011
04:17 GMT |
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Hackers associated with Anonymous' Operation Antisec have leaked a massive cache of personal records, email messages and confidential documents belonging to law enforcement agencies.The data was obtained recently when the group hacked into a server housing 77 websites belonging to county sheriff offices and othe... |
6 August 2011
05:26 GMT |
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Hackers associated with Anonymous' Operation AntiSec have hacked into 77 websites belonging to various law enforcement agencies and stole sensitive data. The websites were apparently hosted on the same server and include those of the sheriff's offices and local administrations in many counties. The hac... |
1 August 2011
12:17 GMT |
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The leak of a next-generation iPhone gained international attention when tech-site Gizmodo posted images of the device in question, along with the story of how they came into its possession. The Gawker Media-owned website reportedly paid 5,000 to get its hands on the prototype unit, but later claimed it didn’t ... |
27 April 2010
03:55 GMT |
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In some of the most controversial cases in courtrooms today, eyewitness accounts can mean the difference between a conviction or an exoneration. A jury can be persuaded to give a certain verdict based on facts presented by witnesses, but psychologists have always known that memories can be manipulated without the tar... |
15 September 2009
03:24 GMT |
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The new “smart” surveillance system, designed by James W. Davis, an associate professor of computer science and engineering at the Ohio State University, and doctoral student Karthik Sankaranarayanan, surpasses regular surveillance cameras by a great deal, as it is no longer limited to the tilt-pan-rotate... |
18 December 2008
05:15 GMT |
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Those of you who have played the game know what I'm talking about. You know, the small UAV's wondering through the buildings and outside, keeping an eye on you at all time, taking pictures, alerting the authorities towards your location when you break the law... You got the idea. Well, as it turns out, the ... |
26 March 2008
05:55 GMT |
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