Many in the media are diving deeply into minutiae in order to discredit any notion that President Trump might have been onto something in March when he fired off a series of tweets claiming President Obama had “tapped” “wires” in Trump Tower just before the election. According to media reports this week, the FBI…
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APT33: Researchers Expose Iranian Hacking Group Linked to Destructive Malware…
Security researchers have recently uncovered a cyber espionage group targeting aerospace, defence and energy organisations in the United States, Saudi Arabia and South Korea. According to the latest research published Wednesday by US security firm FireEye, an Iranian hacking group that it calls Advanced Persistent…
Obama’s UN Ambassador Sought to Unmask Americans on Nearly Daily Basis…
Samantha Power, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, was ‘unmasking’ at such a rapid pace in the final months of the Obama administration that she averaged more than one request for every working day in 2016 – and even sought information in the days leading up to President Trump’s inauguration, multiple sources…
SEC Discloses Hackers Broke into Edgar Corporate Filing System LAST YEAR…
Now, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the top U.S. markets regulator, has disclosed that hackers managed to hack into its financial document filing system and may have illegally profited from the stolen information. On Wednesday, the SEC announced that its officials learnt last month that a previously detected…
CCleaner Malware Infects Big Tech Companies with Second Backdoor…
The group of unknown hackers who hijacked CCleaner’s download server to distribute a malicious version of the popular system optimization software targeted at least 20 major international technology companies with a second-stage payload. Earlier this week, when the CCleaner hack was reported, researchers assured…
British Supermarket Offers ‘Finger Vein’ Payment in Worldwide First…
A UK supermarket has become the first in the world to let shoppers pay for groceries using just the veins in their fingertips. Customers at the Costcutter store, at Brunel University in London, can now pay using their unique vein pattern to identify themselves. The firm behind the technology, Sthaler, has said it is…
More Equifax Lies? Company Originally Hacked Five Months Earlier Than it Disclosed…
When Equifax first disclosed the shocking news on September 7 that its servers and some 143 million private account had been hacked, leaking everything from names, to addresses, to social security numbers, it stated in its press release that it had “learned of the incident on July 29, 2017” adding that “at which point…
WikiLeaks: Spy Files Russia…
This publication continues WikiLeaks’ Spy Files series with releases about surveillance contractors in Russia. While the surveillance of communication traffic is a global phenomena, the legal and technological framework of its operation is different for each country. Russia’s laws – especially the new Yarovaya Law…
Trump’s Former Campaign Manager Wiretapped by FBI…
US investigators wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort under secret court orders before and after the election, sources tell CNN, an extraordinary step involving a high-ranking campaign official now at the center of the Russia meddling probe. The government snooping continued into early this year…
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The Awan Breach on Democrats Gets Murkier and Leads to More Questions…
What’s more concerning, say senior House officials who spoke to Circa, is that Imran Awan was also allegedly transferring files – including documents and emails – of House Democrats to a secret server connected to the less secure House Democratic Caucus. The organization was then chaired by Rep. Xavier Becerra…
Rep Dana Rohrabacher: Someone Leaked ‘Very Important’ Call With John Kelly Concerning WikiLeaks…
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher said someone leaked information about his call this week with White House chief of staff John Kelly, possibly to undermine his ability to speak directly with President Trump about WikiLeaks. The Republican congressman from California spoke with Kelly on Wednesday regarding his recent meeting with WikiLeaks…
Here’s What Your Identity Sells For on the Dark Web…
Millions of Americans who trusted Equifax with sensitive personal and financial data, including social security numbers and credit-card information, are now nervously wondering whether they will be among the unlucky minority of affected customers whose identities are successfully “repurposed” by online criminal groups…
Make Zuckerberg Testify…
Last week, after what must have been a series of extremely grim meetings in Menlo Park, Facebook admitted publicly that part of its revenue includes what appears to be politically motivated fraud undertaken by a shady Russian company. The social network, perhaps motivated by a Washington Post scoop on the matter…
Senate Intel Sneakily Slips Sentence Into Bill That Will Lead to Spying on U.S. Citizens…
A Senate panel may be stealthily trying to give federal law enforcement a new tool to go after the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks and its U.S. collaborators. A one-sentence “Sense of Congress” clause was tacked onto the end of a massive 11,700-word bill that was approved by the Senate Intelligence Committee and is likely…
Sorry Alexa. ‘South Park’ Episode Messes With Viewers’ Home Devices…
In Wednesday’s episode, “White People Renovating Houses,” characters repeatedly yelled commands at Amazon Echo and Google Home devices, the Hollywood Reporter reports. Thanks to the nature of voice activation, this led to some chaotic and foul-mouthed results with real-life Echos and Homes across the country…
High Ranking CIA Agent Blows Whistle on the Deep State and Shadow Government…
A CIA whistleblower, Kevin Shipp, has emerged from the wolves den to expose the deep state and the shadow government which he calls two entirely separate entities. “The shadow government controls the deep state and manipulates our elected government behind the scenes,” Shipp warned in a recent talk at a…
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Beware of Equifax Phishing Scams…
The government is warning Americans about scammers looking to capitalize on the recent Equifax data breach through fraudulent emails or phone calls. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued an alert Thursday warning consumers to beware of phone calls from individuals purporting to be Equifax representatives asking for account…
U.S. Senator on Equifax Hack: ‘Somebody Needs to Go to Jail’…
Thirty-six U.S. senators on Tuesday called on federal authorities to investigate the sale of nearly $2 million in shares of credit bureau Equifax Inc (EFX.N) by company executives after a massive data breach, and one compared their actions to insider trading. The lawmakers signed a letter asking the U.S. Department of Justice…
Debbie Wasserman Schultz IT Guy Was Banned From House After Trying To Hide Secret Server…
A secret server is behind law enforcement’s decision to ban a former IT aide to Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz from the House network. Now-indicted former congressional IT aide Imran Awan allegedly routed data from numerous House Democrats to a secret server. Police grew suspicious and requested a copy of…
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Welcome to 1984: Big Brother Google Now Watching Your Every Political Move…
Google has taken the unprecedented step of burying material, mostly from websites on the political right, that it has deemed to be inappropriate. The problem, however, is that the world’s largest search engine is a left-leaning company with an ax to grind. Let’s face it, deep down in our heart of hearts we knew…
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