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Criminal Hack versus FOIA request: The Showdown
It’s been a whirlwind week, and that’s pretty much all I have to say about that. The commercial data loss prevention firm IdentityFinder set its product to search through the 3GB dump of data that...
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Snapshot: Progressive and Privacy
Dragon NewsBytes pointed this morning to a piece about security researcher Trevor Eckhart, who discovered that Sprint and Verizon phones are running CarrierIQ, a piece of software which has the...
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EPIC sues DHS over Social Media
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), has filed a lawsuit against the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over what EPIC states is DHS’ failure to comply with Freedom of...
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Anonymous/AntiSec Attack STRATFOR
On 24 December, the illegal computer hacking group AntiSec/Anonymous launched attacks against commercial intelligence provider STRATFOR. STRATFOR provides intelligence to a range of commercial and...
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Dave Aitel: Hackers May Help Choose The Next President of the United States
Dave Aitel is the founder and Chief [Security|technology|executive][1] Officer of Immunity, Inc, and runs the Daily Dave mailing list, where this article was originally published. It is re-published...
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BigEye: Meta’s Superb Daily OSINT Roundup
There are lots of great compendia of OSINT out there for law enforcement, some of which we’ve mentioned in these pages before. One outstanding publication which has been around since 2006 is BigEye...
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Federal Court: Location Tracking via Cell-Phone Pinging is Kosher
The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has ruled that police may track the signals eminating from wireless devices, such as cell phones, owned by a person. In United States v Skinner,...
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II: Reports You Need To Read Now
Three reports you should be aware of – and not just because Dave and I are so busy with warrant work that we’ve had no time to do anything except point to the analysis of others – are covered in this...
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The Answer Is In Your Data. And It’s “No” Until You Ask.
This post covers some really basic stuff, but it’s fundamental to what we do, so I think it’s worth a review. You’ve probably heard of “big data”, which after “cloud” is the most over-used, God-awful...
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Onity Hotel-Room Lock-Hacking Triviality Becomes an Issue In Texas
Brocious demonstrates his hack for Forbes Last July at the Black Hat conference, security researcher Cody Brocious gave a well-attended and much-discussed presentation in which he responsibly, totally...
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Boston Bombing Investigation: Intel Failure? No. Bad Expectation-Setting? Oh,...
Bombing victim Jeff Bauman delivering fellow victim Sydney Corcoran her 18th birthday present This is a long post. As either Blaise Pascal, Mark Twain, Voltaire or my Uncle Sid said, I didn’t have time...
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How We Learn What We Know, to Chart What We Know
I spent an enjoyable 20 minutes today speaking with Hilary Sargent, an OSINT rock-star who had to ask me what OSINT was. That’s not to say that she didn’t know – I’m sure she did. But when I told her...
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Big Ears, Little Ears: One article, three layers of blown secrecy, and how...
Today’s guest post is from Eric Olson, author of the Digital Water blog and a previous contributor to PLI. Well, I haven’t had much time to write here for quite a while, but the Edward Snowden affair –...
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Banning Feds From DefCon Is Self Defeating. Here’s Why.
If you’re not familiar with DefCon, the hacker confab that has been meeting in Vegas for more than 20 years, you’re not paying attention to hacking. DefCon (and the accompanying conferences like...
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A New Hope…
Dave Aitel has graciously allowed us to run his commentaries before – see Hackers May Help Choose The Next US President and Aitel On Cyberwar. Dave is the founder and Chief...
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