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New Report on Police Decryption Capabilities
There is a new report on police decryption capabilities: specifically, mobile device forensic tools (MDFTs). Short summary: it’s not just the FBI that can do it. This report documents the widespread adoption ...
CBP Scandal: Buying License Plate Scans
US Customs and Border Protection is buying access to a huge database of automatic license-plate recognition ...
Police Buy Hacked Data, to Fish for Evidence—Is That Even Legal?
A firm called SpyCloud is selling your data to law enforcement. And the sources of that data are hackers ...
BlueLeaks is Huge FAIL for Anonymous and DDoSecrets
Anonymous and Distributed Denial of Secrets have published 269 GB of private law-enforcement data. What were they thinking? ...
Identifying a Person Based on a Photo, LinkedIn and Etsy Profiles, and Other Internet Bread Crumbs
Interesting story of how the police can identify someone by following the evidence chain from website to website. According to filings in Blumenthal's case, FBI agents had little more to go on ...
Ransomware Attack in Florida Forces Prosecutor to Drop Charges in Drug Cases
A ransomware attack against the police department in Stuart, Florida last year had an unexpected consequence; the police officers had to drop several cases after losing important evidence. When a ransomware attack ...
Ring Mandates Two-Factor Authentication, License Plate Reader Data Sharing, RSA Conference Coronavirus Fears
In episode 109 for February 24th 2020: Kevin Johnson joins us to discuss how Ring made two-factor authentication mandatory following recent hacking incidents, California police have been caught illegally sharing license plate ...
Clearview AI and Facial Recognition
The New York Times has a long story about Clearview AI, a small company that scrapes identified photos of people from pretty much everywhere, and then uses unstated magical AI technology to ...
Police Surveillance Tools from Special Services Group
Special Services Group, a company that sells surveillance tools to the FBI, DEA, ICE, and other US government agencies, has had its secret sales brochure published. Motherboard received the brochure as part ...
Skill Sets for Transitioning into a Cybersecurity Career
Changing careers is never easy. How long or far you have already traveled down your particular career path can make the thought of changing careers a little intimidating. Often, people who are ...
