The fight that shook the world and launched Muhammad Ali’s (AKA Cassius Clay) career as the youngest heavyweight champion of all time, was believed by the FBI to be fixed by the mob. According to a document that recently surfaced, the FBI suspected the 1964 Clay/Liston fight to be rigged by the mob.
Most of us with a brain and an internet connection already figured that third-party spying via a laptop webcam was entirely possible – but we assumed that the hardware would at least indicate it was in use. Boy, were we wrong about that one.
The seizure of the hidden Silk Road website and arrest of the founder and head administrator, Ross Ulbricht may have precipitated the arrest of users of the site in Sweden, Britain, and the USA.
Silk Road, AKA the “eBay of drugs,” was a hidden internet site on the Tor network where you could buy drugs and hire hitmen, anonymously, with a simple double-click. The site was operating smoothly for years, turning its owner into a millionaire (and a killer) until he slipped up.
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This might change your mind on whether you want to buy the Samsung or the iPhone. According to the Wall Street Journal, the FBI can now “remotely activate the microphones in phones running Google’s Android software to record conversations”. The FBI have been investing heavily in hackers over the past couple of years to increase their […]
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Edward Snowden tells all to journalist Glenn Greenwald in Hong Kong about why he, a now ex-National Security Agency (NSA) employee, leaked classified information detailing how the NSA and the FBI wiretapped millions of Americans along with obtaining details of their Internet usage.
After it was rumoured that 4chan had found the people responsible for the Boston bombings, it seems the FBI are the people who definitely know what they’re doing. They have published the following images and video, appealing for help.
There may be no emails or lolcats later for more than 300 000 people as the FBI shuts off servers used by cyber criminals. The FBI seized the servers in November 2011 during raids to break up a gang of criminals who used viruses to infect more than four million victims.
The cyber-war on cyber-terror now has innocent bystanders, apparently. In a hunt for LulzSec, the hacking group claiming responsibility for the compromise of huge amounts of Sony user accounts and for briefly taking the CIA website offline, the FBI raided DigitalOne’s data – finding nothing, but causing a bunch of unrelated websites to go offline.