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Exclusive: FBI warns of U.S. government breaches by Anonymous hackers

16
Nov
2013

By Jim Finkle and Joseph Menn BOSTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Activist hackers linked to the collective known as Anonymous have secretly accessed U.S. government computers in multiple agencies and stolen sensitive information in a campaign that began almost a year ago, the FBI warned this week. The hackers exploited a flaw in Adobe Systems Incs […]

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#gunfire: can Twitter really help cops find crime?

16
Nov
2013

In January 2012, the Federal Bureau of Investigation made an open request to industry for a social media alert, mapping, and analysis application with the flexibility to change search parameters and geo-locate the search based on breaking events or emerging threats. They wanted an app, in other words, that would allow keyword searches — for gunfire, […]

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New Ransomware Plays Its Victims an Audio File, Over and Over and Over.

09
Oct
2012

Ransomware continuously evolves and updates its social engineering tactics to trick users into paying money to the cybercriminals.The samples we’re seeing today not only leverage the Federal Bureau of Investigation (or any police authority for that matter), but on this occasion also use a non-malicious .MP3 file!This audio file repeatedly informs users that their system […]

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