Security News

French Police Remotely Removed RETADUP Malware from 850,000 Infected PCs
2019-08-28 10:33

The French law enforcement agency, National Gendarmerie, today announced the successful takedown of one of the largest wide-spread RETADUP botnet malware and how it remotely disinfected more than...

Police site DDoSer/bomb hoaxer caught after jeering on social media
2019-08-16 10:33

He called in bomb hoaxes days after the Manchester Arena murders, DDoSed police sites when they investigated him, then taunted via Twitter.

Police costs for Gatwick drone fiasco double to nearly £900k – and still no one's been charged
2019-08-16 08:03

Omnishambles just keeps on rolling and you're paying for it Sussex Police's probe of the infamous London Gatwick airport drone fiasco of Christmas 2018 has doubled in cost to nearly £900,000 – and...

Bomb-hoaxing DoSer who targeted police in revenge was caught after Twitter taunts
2019-08-15 12:23

Mostly the public adversely affected A young man who DoSed two British police forces' websites has been sentenced to 16 months in a young offenders' institution.…

Hacker swipes personal deets of 20,000 peeps from under Los Angeles Police Dept's nose
2019-07-30 18:26

Tight-lipped plod say cybercrook emailed them sample of stolen data Around 20,000 Los Angeles Police Department job-seekers and officers have had their personal data nicked, the force has confirmed.…

Verint Systems selected as official supplier of Web Intelligence solutions to the UK police forces
2019-07-22 01:00

Verint Systems, a global provider of data mining software for Cyber Intelligence, announced it has been selected by The UK Police ICT Company as an official supplier of Web Intelligence solutions...

London cop illegally used police database to monitor investigation into himself
2019-07-11 12:48

And now he's a convicted criminal – but still in uniform A serving Metropolitan police officer who illegally accessed a police database to monitor a criminal investigation into his own conduct has...

Eight Arrested Over Cyberattacks Against Hong Kong Police
2019-07-03 14:00

Hong Kong police said Wednesday they have arrested eight people for stealing and disclosing personal information of officers online, as the city grapples with the aftermath of unprecedented...

Miami police body cam videos up for sale on the darkweb
2019-07-03 10:43

Videos from Miami Police Department body cams were leaked and stored in unprotected, internet-facing databases, then sold on the darkweb.

Cop a load of this: 1TB of police body camera videos found lounging around public database
2019-07-01 22:18

Miscreants grabbed sensitive footage belonging to officers in Miami, elsewhere, it is feared In yet another example of absent security controls, an infosec biz claims it found a trove of sensitive...