Authorities continue their campaign to catch people involved in a spate of denial-of-service attacks against companies that cut ties with WikiLeaks. – The FBI executed 40 search warrants across the country Jan. 27 as part of an
ongoing investigation into distributed denial-of-service attacks launched in quot;Operation
Payback. quot;
The raids came the same day U.K. authorities
arrested five people believed to be tied to the loosely affiliate…
FBI selects the IT giant as one of its prime contractors to provide new IT hardware, software and services from 2011 through 2019. – The FBI apparently trusts Hewlett-Packard and a few other IT companies to keep its secrets.
HP’s Enterprise Services division on Jan. 6 announced that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has selected the Palo Alto, Calif.-based IT giant as one of its prime contractors to provide new IT hardware, …
A recap of IT security news for the past week includes malware targeting Android devices, the investigation into "Operation Payback" and more. – From malware targeting Google Android phones to news about the feds striking
back at quot;Operation Payback quot; attackers, the final week of 2010 was
anything but uneventful.
Researchers at Lookout Mobile Security uncovered a sophisticated
Trojan in the wild dubbed quot;Geinimi quot; going a…
Federal agents seized two hard drives from a server in a Texas company believed to have been used to launch the DDoS attack against PayPal as part of a pro-WikiLeaks protest. – The
FBI raided a Dallas-based server farm and seized servers used in the
distributed denial-of-service attack against PayPal earlier this month,
according to an affidavit obtained by the Smoking
Gun Website.
Federal
agents are looking for clues as to the identity of the hackers who orchestra…
The FBI is now investigating that series of threatening phone calls and text messages made to Hollywood star Lindsay Lohan and her family as the troubled actress continues to battle drug addiction in rehab, TMZ reported Monday. Over the past several weeks, Lindsay has been receiving harassing correspondence from unknown numbers. The stalker has been [...]
A former contractor accused the FBI of planting backdoors and side-channel key leaking mechanisms into the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework 10 years ago. – An e-mail touched off a bit of a firestorm when a former government
contractor alleged the FBI put backdoors and side-channel key leak
mechanisms in the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework some 10 years ago.
The e-mail, which was posted online here by OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt, came from Gregory …
According to reports, the FBI has opened an investigation into the hack that compromised Gawker Media’s Websites. – The FBI is looking into the recent hack of Gawker Media
that exposed password information and e-mail addresses belonging
to users, according to reports.
A group known as quot;Gnosis quot; has taken credit for the attack, and put
the data it swiped into a file that was initially available via …
The FBI has arrested a Russian man in connection with a spam operation authorities say netted him $465,000 during a six-month period. – The FBI has linked a 23-year-old Russian man to the notorious Mega-D botnet, which once was responsible for one-third of the world’s spam.
According to federal authorities, Oleg Nikolaenko was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to use Mega-D to spam out e-mails for a crew of criminals speci…
Federal and state law enforcement agencies have charged more than 60 people as part of an international crime syndicate that used the Zeus Trojan to swipe millions of dollars from bank accounts. – Federal prosecutors in New York City
charged 37 people on Sept. 30 in connection with a cyber-crime ring that looted
millions of dollars from victims’ bank accounts.
The defendants, mostly in their 20s, are accused of using the Zeus Trojan to
steal more than $3 million.
The victims were primari…
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation said an image of the FBI seal on Wikipedia violates a U.S. law. The FBI wants Wikipedia to take it down but lawyers for the online encyclopedia said no way. A court battle could loom. –
The Federal Bureau of Investigation asked the Wikimedia
Foundation to take down an image of the FBI seal from its popular Wikipedia
online encyclopedia because it violates a U.S. law.
An attorney for the Wikimedia told the FBI it’s reading
of the law was quot;idiosyncratic qu…
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says he has asked the FBI to assist in the probe into the leak and publication of classified military documents. Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen spoke about the issue at a press conference at the Pentagon on Thursday, several days after the Internet website WikiLeaks posted tens of thousands of documents about the war in Afghanistan.
The FBI announced Slovenian police have arrested the person accused of creating the malware behind the notorious Mariposa botnet. – Law enforcement officials have identified and arrested the person they said
is the mind behind one of the largest botnets on the Web.
According to the FBI, the Slovenian Criminal Police identified and arrested
a 23-year-old known as quot;Iserdo, quot; who stands accused of
creating malware …
After EULEX rejected to extradite suspected terrorist Bajram Aslani to the U.S., the FBI has issued an international warrant for his arrest. The FBI believes that the Kosovo Albanian participated in aiding terrorists, and planning murders and kidnappings abroad.
John Stamos’ extortionists have been found guilty of conspiracy and have been sentenced to five years behind bars. Scott Sippola, 31, and Allison Coss, 24, were convicted after the FBI launched a sting operation last year and it was discovered the duo was attempting to release incriminating photos unless Stamos paid them, reports RadarOnline.com. The [...]
The FBI has taken into custody a hacker who may be involved in the AT&T security breach that exposed the names of more than 100,000 Apple iPad 3G users, including high-profile government officials. – The FBI announced it detained a member
of a group of computer programmers allegedly involved in the Apple iPad
3G security breach
that exposed the identities of more than 100,000 iPad users, including
celebrities and top government officials. The breach occurred through
an exploit of AT amp;Ts …
The FBI has reached out to Gawker Media as part of its investigation into the AT&T data leak and requested the company hold on to potential evidence in the case. Gawker was the first to publish details of the incident, in which a hole in the AT&T Website was exploited to reveal e-mail addresses belonging to owners of Apple iPad 3G devices. – The FBI has reached out to Gawker Media to preserve potential evidence
related to the investigation of a leak of e-mail addresses belonging Apple
iPad 3G owners.
According
to Gawker, which broke the news of the AT amp;T data leak that exposed
114,000 iPad owners e-mail addresses, the FBI cont…
The FBI claims to have shut down a rogue anti-virus operation that sold more than 1 million fake products, defrauding victims out of more than $100 million. – Three men have been indicted in what the FBI described as an international cybercrime operation that sold $100 million in rogue anti-virus software to victims in more than 60 countries.
According to authorities, Bjorn Daniel Sundin, 31, and 40-year-old Shaileshkumar P. Jain owned and operated Inn…
The FBI says the murder plot against Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock, reportedly arranged by her husband Jesse James” so mistress Michelle McGee, is bogus, according to a report.
According to law sources, McGee’’s ex-husband Shane Modica received a call from an unknown person who claimed that McGee wanted to bump off both Bullock and Modica. [...]
Law enforcement officials arrest 70 people in a series of raids all over the world tied to an online scam targeting eBay users.
– Law enforcement officials from Romania
and the United States
arrested 70 members of three different organized crime groups for their
roles in an online scam targeting eBay.
The arrests came in a series
of raids by the Romanian Directorate for Investigation of Organized Crime
and Terrorism tha…
