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….
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Secret Service paid a visit to an anti-Obama artist because of some unusual tweets. And most of the interview was caught on video. Th artist known as Sabo aroused suspicion following several tweets. One of them involved bringing Harvey Lee Oswald back from the dead as a zombie. Other Stories…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI announced Tuesday that it has reached 1 million followers on Twitter. That’s quite an achievement for a federal agency that uses social media to help capture suspects, locate missing children and warn of dangers. As we pass one million followers, we #thankyou for connecting to learn more about your…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Twitter wants its users to know how often the government has requested information for surveillance purposes. The Associated Press reports that Twitter is suing the FBI and Justice Department in hopes of getting permission from a judge to release the information. It’s currently against the law for companies to disclose how…
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 Microsoft, Twitter, Google and Facebook are calling for more disclosure of secret requests to hand over date of users, The Guardian reports. “Permitting greater transparency on the aggregate volume and scope of national security requests, including Fisa orders, would help the community understand and debate these important issues,” Microsoft said in an…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is trying to determine how a hacker or hackers were able to send out a bogus tweet that President Obama was injured in a White House bombing using the Associated Press’ Twitter feed, Reuters reports. The tweet caused markets to nosedive briefly and sent some people into panic. The AP…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is urging local police to closely monitor social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, for criminal activity, according to an official publication on the bureau’s website. The FBI publication also encourages law enforcement to be cautious about their own postings to avoid trouble with the law and others. In some cases,…
