By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI arrested two men on charges of online child pornography after agents were able to hack into their computers to identify their true IP addresses that were hidden by Tor, Hacked.com reports. The FBI hacked thousands of computers as part of a “bulk hacking campaign” to fight child pornography. “In…
Drug traffickers are hacking Border Patrol drones along the U.S.-Mexico border to confuse federal investigators.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An Italian company with suspected ties to repressive regimes has been selling surveillance and spyware to the FBI and DEA, The Hill reports. The discovery comes after the firm, Hacking Team, was hacked. The hacker revealed company documents that suggest countries the company does business with countries like Sudan. Among the…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is alerting U.S. companies of the increasing dangers of Chinese hack attacks. The Daily Beast reports that the bureau sent out warnings to companies Wednesday to be aware of a malicious computer program that has been tied to the bold hack of the Office of the Personnel Management. The…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A massive data breach that targeted Homeland Security may have compromised the security of nearly 400,000 former and current employees, contractors and job applicants. The Associated Press reports that the computer hack was discovered in September but many employees weren’t made available until April 27. This is a separate hack than…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has linked an unassuming brick home in Chicago to nearly 600 hacked personal data-storage accounts, many of them belonging to celebrities, the Associated Press reports. Some of the photos contained nude images of female stars. According to recently unsealed court documents, the FBI seized computers and cellphones from the…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama and the FBI blamed North Korea for the cyber-attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment in November based on information that was collected when the NSA hacked into the country’s computer systems in 2010, the New York Times reports. The NSA eventually was able to penetrate directly into North Korea’s system…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A threat to the news media following the Sony hack may have been a hoax from a tweeter who was just “messing around,” ABC News reports. The FBI and Homeland Security believed the threat was credible enough to include it in a join intelligence bulletin last week to law enforcement agencies….
