Hacker Revealed Hacking Tools and Operations Carried Out By Iran’s Elite Cyber-Espionage Units Who: Iran’s elite cyber-espionage units, known as APT34, Oilrig, or HelixKitten. # of Accounts Breached: 66 victims What was affected: Usernames and password...
NSA deleting millions of phone call and text records over privacy violations “Technical irregularities” have the NSA scrambling to delete millions upon millions of phone and text message data records the agency should never have obtained under the USA Freedom Act....
Atlanta, hit by ransomware attack, also fell victim to leaked NSA exploits It’s been almost a week since the City of Atlanta was hit by a ransomware attack, which encrypted city data and led to the shutdown of some services. Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said in a press...
The NSA’s voice-recognition system raises hard questions for Echo and Google Home Suppose you’re looking for a single person, somewhere in the world. (We’ll call him Waldo.) You know who he is, nearly everything about him, but you don’t know where he’s hiding. How do...
The US’s most secretive intelligence agency was embarrassingly robbed and mocked by hackers The National Security Agency, the US’s largest and most secretive intelligence agency, has been deeply infiltrated by anonymous hackers, as detailed in a New York Times...