Earlier this week, two men were arrested in Brooklyn and Rhode Island and charged in federal court with extorting an unnamed cryptocurrency startup for millions of dollars. That company appears… Read More
A federal search warrant indicates that the Sunspot Solar Observatory in New Mexico and surrounding homes were evacuated this month not because of alien visitation, but because of a child… Read More
Three top members of an international cybercrime ring have been arrested, U.S. District Attorney Annette Hayes said Wednesday from her office in Seattle. The hackers are allegedly high-ranking members of… Read More
In a letter sent Wednesday, Congressional Democrats scolded the CEOs of Facebook and Twitter for failing to adequately investigate whether Russian-linked accounts amplified a campaign to release a controversial memo… Read More
Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, the ACLU, and privacy advocates are championing an effort to regulate and remove surveillance cameras they claim have been installed without the city’s permission or… Read More
Amazon’s digital brain Alexa is an astute listener, and police in Bentonville, Ark., are seeking her help to build a murder case, but the company doesn’t appear to be cooperating.… Read More
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said today that it won’t recommend criminal charges against Hillary Clinton over her e-mail investigation. FBI Director James Comey said on Monday morning that while Clinton was… Read More
Last year, the FBI flew a fleet of small airplanes over Seattle and other cities. They were equipped with cameras capable of snapping thousands of high-resolution photographs, and may have… Read More
The FBI has officially unlocked the iPhone used by a terrorist during the December attack in San Bernardino after Apple consistently refused to help the FBI in decrypting the phone’s data, arguing that breaking into… Read More
With Apple refusing to help the FBI in unlocking a terrorist’s iPhone, the government has turned to someone else. In a filing today, the FBI said that an unnamed outside party had… Read More
Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke out on the company’s dispute with the FBI at a media event where Apple is expected to announce a smaller iPhone. “We need to decide as… Read More
Ransomware, the name given to a form of online extortion, is becoming a bigger threat in the United States. Ransomware is software that is surreptitiously loaded onto a victim’s computer… Read More
The FBI filed another brief today in its ongoing fight to get Apple’s help in unlocking an iPhone belonging to San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook. With this filing, the FBI countered claims Apple has… Read More
Apple’s refusal to unlock an iPhone for the FBI has sparked a legal war, and a nationwide debate over law enforcement’s access to private consumer data. But unknown to most people,… Read More
Steve Wozniak has often been a vocal critic of Apple, the company he helped found. But not now, not with the government bearing down and the public’s privacy at stake.… Read More
The tech world is standing behind Apple almost unanimously in its fight against the FBI over unlocking the San Bernardino attacker’s iPhone. An amicus brief submitted today and signed by Microsoft,… Read More
Apple and the FBI presented their arguments on unlocking the San Bernardino attacker’s iPhone to lawmakers today in a wide-ranging, five hour hearing, which touched not only on the case… Read More
At a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee later today, Apple must convince lawmakers and the public that a privacy breach is as dangerous to them as armed terrorists. Apple… Read More
After initially offering support through press releases and a smattering of tweets, some of the nation’s largest tech companies are now supporting Apple more directly in their fight against the FBI… Read More
Last week was a big week in the world of cyber security news, with a potentially landmark bombshell dropping. Apple CEO Tim Cook’s open letter to the public, outlining why… Read More
In the week since Apple went head to head with the FBI over encryption and hacking, people from across the tech sector have offered a wide spectrum of support for the… Read More
Apple plans to argue that a judge doesn’t possess the power to compel a company to create new software code to help authorities break into a locked iPhone, according to… Read More
Those worried about the U.S. government finding ways to disable encryption in consumer technologies have a lot more explaining to do. The American public isn’t buying their point of view. By a wide… Read More
Update Turns out Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder and one of the all-time tech-industry greats, has not taken the FBI’s side in the government’s dispute with Apple over the unlocking of… Read More
Apple is in a tight squeeze. The FBI and a federal district court demanded on Tuesday that the company help break into a iPhone owned by one of the San… Read More
A hacker has extracted contact information belonging to 20,000 FBI employees and published via the Internet on Monday, according to CNN. The data dump on the FBI employees came a… Read More
The FBI denies having a secret collection of X-Files like the ones that Mulder and Scully are investigating in “The X-Files” TV series – but you’d expect the alien conspiracy to say that,… Read More
Your typical “hack” story doesn’t typically involve two Major League Baseball teams, but that’s exactly what the FBI and Justice Department are investigating. The New York Times reported Tuesday that… Read More
A Bellevue man who allegedly helped run the anonymous black market site Silk Road 2.0 was arrested by federal agents and appeared in court on Tuesday. The FBI is charging 26-year-old Brian… Read More
The FBI announced today that it has arrested Blake Benthall, who it alleges is the man behind the Silk Road 2.0 marketplace for drugs and other illicit goods. The 26-year-old… Read More