Neowin News Feed for: Fbi

FBI: Monitoring Skype and Gmail are "top priority" in 2013

Max Slater-Robins — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:08:43 +0000

FBI general counsel, Andrew Weissmann, has said that real time surveillance on Gmail and Skype is a "top priority" in 2013... but the FBI cannot sift through information in real time. Yet. Read more...

FBI announces arrest of 10 people over Butterfly Botnet

Paul Ferson — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:13:10 +0000

The FBI has confirmed the arrest of 10 people over the Butterfly Botnet; a botnet that, peaking at more than 11 million machines infected, harvesting details on bank accounts and passwords. Read more...

Judge orders the FBI to come clean on internet surveillance

Tyler Holman — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 00:43:13 +0000

A US District Judge has ordered the FBI to come clean on their efforts to access encrypted information and force manufacturers to build backdoors into their products, following a lawsuit from the EFF. Read more...

Exposed Apple UDID numbers came from Florida company, not the FBI

John Callaham — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 22:26:02 +0100

A Florida-based company called Blue Toad claims it is the place where hackers stole a large number of UDID numbers from Apple iOS products two weeks ago. Read more...

FBI: "No evidence" of AntiSec hacker group claim

John Callaham — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 01:20:05 +0100

The FBI has now sent out a statement claim that there is "no evidence" that a hacker group managed to steal 12 million Apple UDID numbers from one of the agency's laptops. Read more...

AntiSec claims to have stolen 12 million Apple UDIDs from FBI

John Callaham — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:36:37 +0100

The hacker group AntiSec claims that it has obtained 12 million Apple UDID numbers by attacking a Dell Vostro notebook from the FBI. It has already publicly posted one million of those numbers. Read more...

Second LulzSec suspect arrested over year-old hacking incident

Paul Ferson — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:50:43 +0100

An attack on Sony Pictures' website, more than a year ago, has not gone unpunished. A second suspect in the attack has been arrested over his crimes, and could face 15 years imprisonment for them. Read more...

FBI bringing anti-piracy logos to everything

Tyler Holman — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 18:51:33 +0100

That totally inaffective and annoying little logo you see at the start of movies is about to become a lot more common: the FBI is about to let anyone use its anti-piracy seal for anyone to use. Read more...

Thousands of people could lose Internet access on July 9th

Paul Ferson — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 13:58:58 +0100

Thanks to the efforts of the FBI and international law enforcement groups, you could lose your Internet access on July 9th due to a virus you never knew you had. We examine, and try to explain. Read more...

MegaUpload search warrants ruled to be illegal

John Callaham — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:14:18 +0100

A New Zealand judge has ruled that the search warrants used by the FBI in the raid on MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom's mansion were in fact illegal in the biggest defeat yet against the FBI's case. Read more...

37 arrested in massive FBI cyber sting operation

John Callaham — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 20:37:59 +0100

A huge sting operation organized by the FBI has led to the arrest today of 37 people all over the world, having been lured to a website set up by the FBI so they can trade stolen credit card numbers. Read more...

FBI ordered to copy 150 terabytes of data in MegaUpload case

John Callaham — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 01:23:12 +0100

A New Zealand judge has ordered the FBI to start copying a whopping 150 terabytes of data from the computers of MegaUpload's founder Kim Dotcom in preparation for a possible transfer of those files. Read more...

FBI asking Microsoft and others to make products wiretap-friendly

John Callaham — Sat, 05 May 2012 07:48:06 +0100

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is asking tech companies, including Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Google, to not oppose a proposed law that would make many Internet services wiretap friendly. Read more...

FBI serves warrant requesting Android phone's contents from Google

Nathan Tsui — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:37:17 +0000

After failing to gain access into an alleged pimp's Android smartphone, the FBI has served a warrant to Google, demanding to know all the personal details contained within. Read more...

Anonymous spent $700,000 with stolen credit cards

John Callaham — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 03:37:01 +0000

Anonymous used credit card numbers stolen in December from the servers of security firm Stratfor to make at least $700,000 in false credit card purchases, according to the FBI. Read more...

LulzSec turncoat pretended to be an FBI agent

Tyler Holman — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:40:34 +0000

Now that's actually kind of sad. Apparently the turncoat leader of LulzSec, Sabu, was charged with criminal impersonation last month after informing a police officer that he was an FBI agent named Boo Read more...

LulzSec leader joins the Feds (Update: Anonymous responds)

Tyler Holman — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:10:34 +0000

Sabu, the leader of LulzSec, has officially joined forces with his archenemy, the FBI, leading them to arrest other key members of the infamous antisec organization on Tuesday morning. Read more...

Anonymous claims it hacked into FBI conference call

John Callaham — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:29:54 +0000

The hacker group Anonymous has released what it claims to be a conference call they intercepted between FBI and UK police where the groups talk about tracking Anonymous and other hacker groups. Read more...

Value your privacy? You may be a terrorist!

Tyler Holman — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:10:40 +0000

According to a new FBI flyer, internet cafes should be on the lookout for anyone who seems 'overly concerned about privacy,' or anyone who logs into AOL, as these may be signs of terrorism. Read more...

FBI: Megaupload wanted to copy YouTube videos in 2006

John Callaham — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:01:01 +0000

In the massive indictment against the Megaupload file sharing web site, the FBI claimed that the site's team members wanted to copy the contents of YouTube back in 2006. Read more...