By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is seeking new authority to hack into computers and spy on their users, the Guardian reports. The Justice Department is requesting that an obscure regulatory advisory board change the rules of searches and seizures. The two will meet Nov. 5. Civil liberties groups claim the new rules would violate…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating who hacked and leaked nude photos of more than 100 well-known celebrities over the weekend, the Business Insider reports. The hacker exposed the nude photos and videos using the internet forum 4chan. Some of the victims, including Academy Award winner Jennifer Lawrence, sparked the FBI investigation by calling…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com JPMorgan Chase was among at least five financial institutions recently hacked in coordinated attacks, the USA Today reports. A federal law enforcement official told USA Today that investigators believe Russian attackers were behind the hacking. Now FBI agents are trying to determine whether the attacks were related to U.S. sanctions against…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating hacking attacks targeting the personal computers and accounts of law enforcement involved in the Ferguson investigation, CNN reports. Authorities believe the attacks are coming from hackers affiliated with the group Anonymous. Investigators are trying to determine the extent of the breach. Included in the attacks are personal computers…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It used to be the bad guys who hacked computers. But now law enforcement is resorting to the same trickery to search remote computers for investigations. The IDG News Service reports that the Justice Department is seeking permission to hack computers to investigate complex criminal schemes that often utilize millions of machines…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal investigators announced a total of 44 charge against a suspected member of the hacktivist group Anonymous. Fidel Salinas, 27, of Donna, Texas, could be sentenced up to 444 years in prison for conspiring with the collective to hack computer systems of a county government, a school district and a newspaper in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Barrett Lancaster Brown became the public face for Anonymous, a hacking collective that has wrecked havoc on computers nationwide. Now the spokesman-like figure faces up to eight-and-half years in prison for public posts he made on YouTube and Twitter targeting FBI Agent Robert Smith because authorities were threatening to go after his…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Hunter Moore, who once operated the revenge-porn website IsAnyoneUp.com, and an accomplice have been arrested and accused of hacking into computers and stealing nude photos, the Rolling Stone reports. Thursday’s arrest of Moore and Charles Evens came on the heals of a 15-count indictment. Moore, among other things, is accused of paying…
