For Some Reason, Twitter and Facebook Aren’t Publicizing Their New Petition
Twenty-two organizations, including Twitter, Facebook and Google, are sponsoring a new petition to “save crypto.” The treatise, which was posted online yesterday, urges President Barack Obama to advocate a strong, secure Internet with no back doors. Congress, the FBI and world leaders want access to encrypted information so as to prevent terrorist attacks. But major […]
The Government does not Need a Warrant to Read Our Emails
Should the contents of email messages be protected from unwarranted law enforcement scrutiny to the same extent as physical letters sent through the mail? The answer seems obvious. Email is today’s postal service, and the personal contents of email messages are as private to people as the letters sent through the U.S. Postal Service. But […]
Ruling prohibits blanket ban on Internet use for parolees
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) – A blanket ban on Internet use unlawfully deprives parolees convicted of sex crimes of more liberty than necessary because the Internet has become a necessary part of modern life, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals said the wording in a standard condition of supervised release […]
Cyber Attack against Rutgers University
NEW BRUNSWICK – A cyber attack against the Rutgers University computer network is responsible for ongoing interruptions in internet service, school officials said Tuesday. In a 9 a.m. update posted to the Facebook account of the Rutgers Office of Information and Technology (OIT), officials said the service outages were related to a distributed denial […]
Baltimore Police used secret technology to track cellphones in thousands of cases
The Baltimore Police Department has used an invasive and controversial cellphone tracking device thousands of times in recent years while following instructions from the FBI to withhold information about it from prosecutors and judges, a detective revealed in court testimony Wednesday. The testimony shows for the first time how frequently city police are using a […]
Hacked again? Russian hackers still inside Sony Pictures’ network, security firm says
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) might have a second security breach on its hands, or maybe the hackers from November’s scandalous attack are still inside the company systems, according to a security firm that claims to have seen evidence of Russian hackers having access to SPE internal data. The hackers accessed SPE’s Culver City, California network […]
FBI net shut off has ‘limited’ impact on victims
More than 300,000 people, including many in the US and UK, may have lost net access as the FBI shuts down servers used by cyber thieves. The FBI seized the servers in November 2011 during raids to break up a hi-tech gang who used the DNS Changer virus to infect more than four million victims. […]
Florida swindlers’ $77 million cow pasture
Just before fleeing the country, Victor and Natalia Wolf launched a national project that wiped out investors of millions — leaving nothing but cattle and sage brush behind During a lavish party for hundreds of guests, North Miami Beach developers Victor and Natalia Wolf unveiled their most ambitious project: a new city in the heart […]
Indicted Fort Lauderdale brothers facing new federal fraud charges
Already charged with running one of Florida’s biggest investment scams, Fort Lauderdale brothers Joel Steinger and Steven Steiner were arrested again Wednesday in connection with a new fraud conspiracy. A federal prosecutor known as Steinger a “serial” prison for allegedly conspiring along with his brother to create dummy companies that bilked $three million from health […]
FBI seeks social media monitoring tool
In a move that’s unlikely to sit well with privacy advocates, the FBI has begun scouting for a tool that will allow it to gather and mine data from social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and blogs. The objective is to use the software to stay on most sensible of breaking occasions, incidents and emerging threats, […]