Category: agency

Secret Service bought location data pulled from common apps

Post author By Randall
Post date August 17, 2020
Categories In agency, apps, babel street, cell phone, contract, data, federal, gear, Law Enforcement, locate x, location data, News, Privacy, ron wyden, secret service, Smartphone, Tech, us, warrantless

[ad_1] With Locate X, an agency like the Secret Service could, for instance, create a geo-fence around a crime scene. It could then identify mobile devices that were in that area prior to the crime and see where those devices traveled before or after the incident. Police took that approach following a burglary in 2019, […]

Government hackers reportedly broke into Russian search company Yandex

Post author By Randall
Post date June 28, 2019
Categories In agency, Cyberattack, Cybersecurity, five eyes, Hack, hackers, intelligence, Internet, malware, Politics, reign, Security, spy, spying, Tech, tomorrow, user accounts, western intelligence, yandex

[ad_1] In the fall of 2018, the hackers deployed a type of malware called Reign, which is linked to “Five Eyes,” an intelligence-sharing alliance comprised of the US, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. It’s unclear which of those countries might be behind the breach, though. A Yandex spokesperson told Reuters that the hack was […]