Security News

Ransomware Hits North Miami Beach Police Department
2020-02-10 16:15

The City of North Miami Beach last week announced that ransomware was found on computers within its police department's network. The attack was discovered on Tuesday and the FBI, the Secret Service, and the Miami-Dade Police Department were immediately alerted.

Day 4 of outage: UK's Manchester police deploy exciting new carbon-based method to record crime
2020-02-07 15:27

Greater Manchester Police is struggling with a partial outage of a Capita-built computer system used by frontline officers to input information. The PoliceWorks systems, which form part of the force's new iOPS - a £27m project undertaken by everyone's favourite outsourcer - went down after a planned IT upgrade at midnight on Monday.

Police Bust 3 Suspected Magecart Hackers in Indonesia
2020-01-27 12:33

Police in Indonesia have arrested three suspected members of an e-commerce hacking crew that employed JavaScript attack code to steal customer and payment card data. Joint press conference by Indonesian National Police & #INTERPOL on Operation Night Fury led by INTERPOL's #ASEAN Desk, sharing the successful arrest of 3 suspects involved in JS-sniffer campaign compromising e-commerce websites to steal credit card or online payment information pic.

Police Surveillance Tools from Special Services Group
2020-01-10 14:41

Special Services Group, a company that sells surveillance tools to the FBI, DEA, ICE, and other US government agencies, has had its secret sales brochure published. Motherboard received the brochure as part of a FOIA request to the Irvine Police Department in California.

London's Met Police splash the cash on e-learning 'cyber' training for 4k staffers
2019-12-17 09:16

Getting tooled up for future crimes The Metropolitan Police Service dispatched more than 4,000 staff to attend so-called "cyber" training courses over the past two years.…

Police get “unprecedented” data haul from Google with geofence warrants
2019-12-16 11:14

Investigators are using geofence warrants to get anybody and everybody who's near a crime at a given time.

Russian Police Raided NGINX Moscow Office, Detained Co-Founders
2019-12-12 10:12

Russian law enforcement officers have raided the Moscow offices of Nginx—the company behind the world's second most popular web server software—over a copyright infringement complaint filed by...

Police arrest alleged Chuckling Squad member who hijacked @Jack Dorsey
2019-11-27 11:58

Debug, another Chuckling Squadder, told Motherboard that the kid was weird, "Swatting celebrities for a follow back."

Warrant let police search online DNA database
2019-11-07 12:02

This is a "game changer" when it comes to genetic privacy rights, experts say.

Police interrogate Alexa for clues in fatal spear-stabbing
2019-11-05 10:26

A friend heard a couple arguing but couldn't make out what it was about. Police hope that Alexa might have a better idea.