Security News

Feds Allege Twitter Infiltrated by Saudi Spies
2019-11-07 11:48

US Charges Two Ex-Employees and Saudi National With Spying on Twitter UsersThe U.S. Department of Justice has charged three men with perpetrating a campaign to infiltrate Twitter and spy on...

Feds Shut Down Largest Dark Web Child Abuse Site; South Korean Admin Arrested
2019-10-17 10:34

The United States Department of Justice said today that they had arrested hundreds of criminals in a global crackdown after taking down the largest known child porn site on the dark web and...

Feds Indict 281 People for Involvement in Massive E-Mail Fraud Scheme
2019-09-11 11:31

A coordinated effort between multiple agencies arrested suspects in Nigeria, the U.S. and eight other countries as well as seized nearly $3.7 million.

Google & Apple pushed to reveal gun scope app users’ names to feds
2019-09-10 10:50

It's a first: The government has never demanded personal data of a single app's users from Apple & Google.

Feds, Tech Giants Meet to Coordinate 2020 Election Security
2019-09-05 16:48

Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter Discuss Information Sharing, CoordinationRepresentatives from the U.S. intelligence establishment met with security officials of major social media and...

Feds Allege Adconion Employees Hijacked IP Addresses for Spamming
2019-09-02 20:52

Federal prosecutors in California have filed criminal charges against four employees of Adconion Direct, an email advertising firm, alleging they unlawfully hijacked vast swaths of Internet...

Capital One 'hacker' hit with fresh charges: She burgled 30 other AWS-hosted orgs, Feds claim
2019-08-29 20:02

Ex-Amazon techie accused of cyber-looting other storage buckets, mining crypto-coins on hacked servers The ex-Amazon engineer who allegedly stole 100 million Capital One credit applicants'...

Feds: Capital One Suspect May Have Hacked 30-Plus Companies
2019-08-15 03:20

Federal prosecutors say a woman charged in a massive data breach at Capital One may have hacked more than 30 other organizations. read more

Chin up, CapitalOne: You may not have been the suspected hacker's only victim. Feds fear 30-plus organizations hit
2019-08-14 21:06

Prosecutors file papers to keep Paige Thompson behind bars while awaiting trial The ex-Amazon software engineer accused of stealing the personal information of 106 million people from Capital...

DEF CON and Feds Partner on Anonymous Bug Submission Program
2019-08-14 14:53

Bug submission program uses the SecureDrop platform to ensure anonymity.