Security News

Hackers bragged that pretty vanilla breach included FBI watchlist? Well, colour us shocked
2019-04-16 12:13

It's didn't, by the way – it's a bunch of ad industry folk A hacker collective calling itself Pokemongo that published what it claimed to be personal data of US FBI agents has followed up by...

How a new public-private partnership will fill cybersecurity gaps for the FBI and CIA
2019-04-09 14:47

Companies including Mastercard and Microsoft are partnering with federal agencies and nonprofits to produce more cyber talent.

FBI catches heat, HS kids catch a hacking rap, and Albany catches a ransomware infection
2019-04-06 11:56

Plus, JavaScript card sniffer's go under the microscope Roundup This week had an Apple engineer fighting the government, an Apache update release, and a security scare at Mar-a-Lago.…

Report: FBI Fails to Promptly Notify Cybercrime Victims
2019-04-03 18:03

Inspect General Cites Numerous Errors in How FBI Makes NotificationsThe FBI is largely failing to notify cybercrime victims of their rights in a timely manner following a "cyber intrusion," a new...

FBI's Palmore on Leadership and Diversity
2019-03-27 13:33

Cyber Investigator on the Need to Diversify Skills in Cyber WorkforceAt a time when diversity is a key topic within the cybersecurity leadership and workforce, MK Palmore of the FBI says we also...

FBI crackdown on DDoS-for-hire sites led to 85% slash in attack sizes
2019-03-21 10:42

According to a new report, average and maximum DDoS attack sizes decreased by 85.36% and 23.91%.

Average DDoS attack sizes decrease 85% due to FBI’s shutdown of DDoS-for-hire websites
2019-03-21 06:00

The FBI’s shutdown of the 15 largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) for hire vendors (booters) reduced the overall number of attacks worldwide by nearly 11 percent compared to the same...

Silence of the WANs: FBI DDoS-for-hire greaseball takedowns slash web flood attacks 'by 11%'
2019-03-19 23:10

Fed bust of massive attack network caused traffic loads to plummet in Q4 The FBI's takedown of a group of prolific DDoS-for-hire websites has single-handedly helped to drop attack levels globally.…

ThreatList: DDoS Attack Sizes Drop 85 Percent Post FBI Crackdown
2019-03-19 12:00

The FBI's crackdown on 15 DDoS-for-hire sites appears to have had an impact on DDoS attacks, the average size for which dropped 85 percent in the fourth quarter of 2018, a new report found.

Home DNA kit company now lets users opt out of FBI data sharing
2019-03-18 16:20

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