By Eric Lieberman Geek Squad technicians at a Best Buy repair shop in Kentucky have reportedly been receiving payments from the FBI after they hand over signs of child pornography on customer computers. When the IT workers are tasked with recovering lost data from clients’ devices, they occasionally stumble upon illegal pornographic content that includes minors. The…
By Kevin Daley The James Madison Project, a transparency and accountability group, has filed a lawsuit in federal court demanding that several security and intelligence agencies furnish evidence that foreign interests interfered in the November election. The U.S. government publicly accused Russia of orchestrating hacks of Democratic and Republican political organizations in October. President Obama…
By Kathryn Watson U.S. taxpayers spent $95 million so 434 devices across the country could secretly transform their cell phones into real-time tracking devices, according to a new House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (HOGR) report. The Department of Justice (DOJ) spent more than $71 million on 310 cell-site simulators, also known as Stingrays,…
By Eric Lieberman Facebook and other social media corporations could be forced to purge fake news and hate speech from their platforms if a proposed law in Germany is enacted. Tech companies could be fined up to 500,000 euros for effectively “publishing” misleading or false content. Germany plans on giving social media firms 24 hours to comply. “Defamation…
One Billion Yahoo Accounts Hacked, Company Breaks Own Record By Eric Lieberman One billion Yahoo user accounts were hacked two years ago, marking yet another unfortunate milestone for the tech corporation. “We believe an unauthorized third party, in August 2013, stole data associated with more than one billion user accounts,” Chief Information Security Officer Bob…
By Eric Lieberman A Florida court ruled a man can be forced to reveal his smartphone password to law enforcement as part of an investigation, after he was accused of snapping a picture under a woman’s skirt. The defendant, Aaron Stahl, was arrested after surveillance cameras allegedly spotted him taking photos of a woman’s undercarriage with his iPhone. A trial…
There are many unique problems that very large companies face on a regular basis, of which small to medium enterprises simply never run into. As such, large companies often require large teams of IT experts, located in various parts of the state, country or world, so as to handle any problems that arise without cutting…
by Micah J. Fleck President Obama assigned a special committee to gathering intelligence regarding the DNC hacks during the election season that was largely responsible for tarnishing Hillary Clinton’s image. That group of intelligence gatherers now has a conclusion: Russians did it. But not only that… They did it to the RNC, too. They just…
By Robert Donachie One senior level staffer for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s campaign recently launched a full-on anti-Trump website called “corrup.af.” Former digital communications director for Clinton’s campaign, Matt Ortega, created the website on his own and funded it completely out-of-pocket, Politico reports. The “.af” in the website URL is officially the country code…
by Eric Lieberman The FBI has reportedly reached an agreement with a data analysis company to acquire information pertaining to people’s social media content. It’s set to sign a contract with Dataminr in order to obtain its Indicators and Warnings capability, “which will permit the FBI to search the complete Twitter firehose, in near real-time,…