[The following article contains graphic language] Twitter Account @PennLive was hacked in the early morning hours of January 14th, to the surprise of the account’s 128,000 followers. PennLive describes themselves as a hub mixing what’s trending around the nation/ world with Pennsylvania life and culture. Once PennLive regained access to their account, they sent a…
A series of attacks called “Chuckling Squad Hacks” appears to have gained access to people’s phones via AT&T SIM Card replacements.
Assuming you are not living under a rock, you have most likely noticed that everyone from Kim Kardashian and the Jonas Brothers to 8-year-old children have been posting photos of themselves looking shockingly and accurately old. It seems everyone has been running a picture of their face through the “old age filter” from a program…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Michael Bastasch U.S. intelligence overheard a Russian operative brag about targeting Hillary Clinton in the upcoming 2016 presidential election as payback for an “influence campaign” the former secretary of state ran against Vladimir Putin five years earlier. Senior intelligence officials told Time that a Russian military intelligence officer with…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is pictured during a test-fire of strategic submarine-launched ballistic missile in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang August 25, 2016. REUTERS/KCNA By: Ryan Pickrell North Korean hackers allegedly gained access to secret allied war plans for a…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck WikiLeaks has now released over six hundred documents that claim to show the CIA goes through great lengths to disguise its own hacking as Russian, Chinese, and North Korean activity. The Daily Mail reports: The 676 files released today are part of WikiLeaks’ Vault 7 tranche…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Russ Read More than 500 million users were affected by the Yahoo hack in 2014, but this massive heist wasn’t perpetrated by a team of cyber warriors. It was the brainchild of a couple Russian intelligence agents and their two hacker recruits. The hack was one of the largest data…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck A new automated camera system designed for seeking out and identifying citizens through remote means is reportedly in development for police use. The technology will make it possible to “seek” out people by tapping into existing camera footage across the country and utilizing cutting edge face-…
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 Micah J. Fleck According to a new report mere hours ago, the Obama administration has identified malware it calls “Grizzly Steppe” as being present in a Vermont utility. The report states: A code associated with the Russian hacking operation dubbed Grizzly Steppe by the Obama administration has been detected within the system of a…