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Police Dept loses years worth of dashcam video to ransomware
The city of Atlanta Police department lost critical dashcam video evidence during a ransomware attack that occurred in March…
June 6, 2018
Man arrested for possession of 58 terabytes of child sexual abuse material
A terabyte is more precisely defined as 1,024 gigabytes (GB).
May 28, 2018
Tracking firm caught leaking realtime location data of US Mobile users
Location tracking firm “LocationSmart” has been caught putting the physical security of US citizens at risk and its…
May 18, 2018
Ransomware Attack Wipes Out Police and Fire Department Data
The city of Riverside’s Police and Fire department has been hit by a ransomware attack once again –…
May 13, 2018
Police bust drug dealers using fingerprint from a WhatsApp photo
A WhatsApp photo of drug dealer’s hand carrying ecstasy tablets allowed police to track down and bust a…
April 16, 2018
Police locate suspect from a crowd of 60,000 using Facial Recognition
In Southeast China, the police used facial recognition tech to locate and detain a suspect from among a…
April 16, 2018
Baltimore’ 911 CAD system hacked; remained suspended for 17 hours
The 911 dispatch system of Baltimore became the target of hack attack over the weekend. As per Pugh…
March 28, 2018
US government gets its hand on $15,000 iPhone cracking device
Until a couple of weeks ago, Cellebrite was one of the known few firms claiming to crack any iPhone…
March 27, 2018
US Cops Using Dead Suspects’ Fingerprints to Unlock iPhones
Believe it or not but in the US, police are now using fingerprints of dead suspects to unlock…
March 27, 2018
Hackers allegedly steal confidential reports from Police server
Hackers allegedly stole hundreds of reports using a security flaw in an online tool used by the police.…
March 14, 2018