Robert Anderson Contributor Robert Anderson served for 21 years in the FBI, retiring as executive assistant director of the Criminal, Cyber, Response and Services Branch. He is currently an advisor at The Chertoff Group and the chief executive of Cyber Defense Labs. Over the past several years, the law enforcement community has grown increasingly concerned […]
View More Law enforcement needs to protect citizens and their dataCategory: Federal Bureau of Investigation
Tor pulls in record donations as it lessens reliance on US government grants
Tor, the open source initiative which provides a more secure way to access the internet, is continuing to diversify its funding away from its long-standing reliance on U.S. government grants. The Tor Foundation — the organization behind the service which stands for ‘The Onion Router’ — announced this week that it brought in a record […]
View More Tor pulls in record donations as it lessens reliance on US government grantsScammers are sending bomb scares to nab BTC
A new scam is making the rounds that promises to disrupt countless offices and schools. The scam is simple: the scammers send an email threatening to detonate a bomb if they don’t get a certain amount of Bitcoin within a specified time frame. Because there is little upside to ignoring a bomb threat at this […]
View More Scammers are sending bomb scares to nab BTCMetacert’ Cryptonite can catch phishing links in your email
Metacert, founded by Paul Walsh, originally began as a way to watch chat rooms for fake Ethereum scams. Walsh, who was an early experimenter in cryptocurrencies, grew frustrated when he saw hackers dumping fake links into chat rooms, resulting in users regularly losing cash to scammers. Now Walsh has expanded his software to email. A […]
View More Metacert’ Cryptonite can catch phishing links in your emailIn letter to Congress, Apple sends strongest denial over ‘spy chip’ story
Apple has doubled down on its repudiation of Bloomberg’s report last week that claimed its systems had been compromised by Chinese spies. The blockbuster story cited more than a dozen sources claiming that China installed tiny chips on motherboards built by Supermicro, which companies across the U.S. tech industry — including Amazon and Apple — have […]
View More In letter to Congress, Apple sends strongest denial over ‘spy chip’ storyJustice Department files criminal charges against seven Russian spies over Fancy Bear cyberattacks
U.S. prosecutors have charged seven suspects accused of working for the Russian GRU, the country’s military intelligence unit. The Justice Department’s National Security Division alleged the seven hackers were part of “a conspiracy to use computer hacking to obtain non-public, health information about athletes and others in the files of anti-doping agencies in multiple countries, […]
View More Justice Department files criminal charges against seven Russian spies over Fancy Bear cyberattacksChina reportedly infiltrated Apple and other US companies using ‘spy’ chips on servers
Ready for information about what may be one of the largest corporate espionage programs from a nation-state? The Chinese government managed to gain access to the servers of more than 30 U.S. companies, including Apple, according to an explosive report from Bloomberg published today. Bloomberg reports that U.S-based server motherboard specialist Supermicro was compromised in China […]
View More China reportedly infiltrated Apple and other US companies using ‘spy’ chips on serversNorthwest fast food chain hack exposed customer credit cards
A beloved regional burger chain in the Pacific Northwest is the latest fast food company to suffer a major data breach. Burgerville, headquartered in Vancouver, Washington, disclosed today that any customers who used a credit or debit card from September 2017 to September 2018 at any of its locations may have had their card details […]
View More Northwest fast food chain hack exposed customer credit cardsUS government loses bid to force Facebook to wiretap Messenger calls
US government investigators have lost a case to force Facebook to wiretap calls made over its Messenger app. A joint federal and state law enforcement effort investigating the MS-13 gang had pushed a district court to hold the social networking giant in contempt of court for refusing to permit real-time listening in on voice calls. […]
View More US government loses bid to force Facebook to wiretap Messenger callsAlibaba’s Ant Financial denies stealing from Equifax
Ant Financial has denied claims that it covertly raided Equifax — the U.S. credit firm that was hit by a hack last year — to grab information, including code, confidential data and documents to help recruit staff for its own credit scoring service. The Alibaba affiliate, which is valued at over $100 billion, launched Sesame […]
View More Alibaba’s Ant Financial denies stealing from EquifaxProtonMail names one of the attackers behind a major DDoS this summer
End-to-end encrypted email service ProtonMail has named one of the attackers behind a sustained distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) it suffered earlier this summer. The attack took its email service offline for up to several minute long stretches at a time, even with mitigation measures in place. It says the UK’s National Crime Agency […]
View More ProtonMail names one of the attackers behind a major DDoS this summer‘Five Eyes’ governments call on tech giants to build encryption backdoors — or else
A pact of five nation states dedicated to a global “collect it all” surveillance mission has issued a memo calling on their governments to demand tech companies build backdoor access to their users’ encrypted data — or face measures to force companies to comply. The international pact — the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New […]
View More ‘Five Eyes’ governments call on tech giants to build encryption backdoors — or else