Security News

Home DNA kit company says it’s working with the FBI
2019-02-05 12:07

FamilyTreeDNA has disclosed that it's opened up more than 1m DNA profiles to the FBI to help find suspects of violent crime.

FBI burrowing into North Korea’s big bad botnet
2019-02-04 12:06

The FBI revealed that it joined the Joanap botnet and started chewing it up from the inside.

FBI Mapping 'Joanap Malware' Victims to Disrupt the North Korean Botnet
2019-01-31 08:18

The United States Department of Justice (DoJ) announced Wednesday its effort to "map and further disrupt" a botnet tied to North Korea that has infected numerous Microsoft Windows computers across...

FBI Agents Say Shutdown is Damaging Cyber Investigations
2019-01-24 11:18

Funding Holdups for Subpoenas and Confidential Sources are Interrupting ProbesFBI agents say the government shutdown is impeding their investigations, including cybersecurity probes, with the lack...

State agency exposes 3TB of data, including FBI info and remote logins
2019-01-21 12:39

Oklahoma’s Department of Securities (ODS) exposed 3TB of files in plain text containing sensitive data on the public internet this month.

Unprotected Government Server Exposes Years of FBI Investigations
2019-01-17 07:48

A massive government data belonging to the Oklahoma Department of Securities (ODS) was left unsecured on a storage server for at least a week, exposing a whopping 3 terabytes of data containing...

Dozens of .gov HTTPS certs expire, websites offline, FBI on ice, IT security slows... Yup, it's day 20 of Trump's govt shutdown
2019-01-11 02:02

Hackers may be rubbing their hands with glee The IT impact of the ongoing partial US federal government shutdown has begun to show up in the form of degraded computer security. According to...

Turns Out Kaspersky Labs Helped FBI Catch Alleged NSA Leaker
2019-01-10 07:18

Remember "The Shadow Brokers" and the arrest of a former NSA contractor accused of stealing 50 Terabytes of top secret documents from the intelligence agency? It turns out that, Kaspersky Lab,...

FBI Steps Up Efforts Against 'Money Mules' Online Fraud
2018-12-27 15:16

The email caught the executive at a small company by surprise one morning in 2016. The company's owner, or so he thought, was requesting a money transfer to pay for supplies from a new vendor. read more

FBI Denies Service to 15 DDoS-for-Hire Sites, Charges Operators
2018-12-21 17:39

The FBI has taken down several of the largest DDoS-as-a-service sites on the web.