Collaborate Disseminate
While privacy advocates have warned against Ring’s partnerships with police, newly unearthed documents reveal FBI concerns about ‘new challenges’ smart doorbell footage could create for cops. Continue reading FBI: Ring Smart Doorbells Could Sabotage Cops
An FBI cybersecurity guide instructs local police officers on how to avoid surveillance and harassment online amid ongoing protests against police brutality throughout the U.S. The Federal Bureau of Investigation instructions include a range of advisories for smaller police agencies, ranging from ways to avoid harassment on Facebook to the best ways to remove personal information from publicly available databases. The 354-page document, titled “Digital Exhaust Opt Out Guide,” was released publicly in June as part of the BlueLeaks data dump, a trove of law enforcement materials made public by transparency activists calling themselves Distributed Denial of Secrets. Federal authorities have distributed the guidelines to local police fusion centers — the state-operated hubs where federal, state, local and other law enforcement agencies share threat information and training tools — amid protests over the death of George Floyd and other unarmed Black Americans at the hands of police. A number of […]
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An Algerian web developer who claims to have “a demonstrated history of working in the internet industry” has launched coronavirus-themed email scams and helped build other hacking tools, according to a police intelligence report. Samir Djelal, who allegedly used the internet alias Cazanova Haxor, developed malicious software that was used in a phishing attack aimed at California city accounts in March 2020, states an internal report from the California Cyber Security Integration Center, a state organization meant to facilitate information sharing about digital threats. The threat profile, dated April 6, 2020, was made public as part of BlueLeaks, the 269 GB database containing data on police bulletins, training materials and other law resources taken from law enforcement fusion centers. Distributed Denial of Secrets, a WikiLeaks-style transparency group, appears to have obtained the trove of information after hackers breached Netsential, a Texas internet company that handles websites for police agencies throughout […]
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The server contained almost 270 gigabytes of data collected from 200 police departments, law enforcement training and support resources and fusion centers. Continue reading BlueLeaks Server Seized By German Police: Report
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The BlueLeaks data dump contained sensitive information on Police, Fusion centers which were recently leaked by WikiLeaks-like service called DDoSecrets. German police have seized a server that hosted the BlueLeaks data dump. As previously rep… Continue reading German Police seize DDoSecrets server hosting BlueLeaks data dump
German law enforcement officials have seized a server belonging to an anti-secrecy organization that recently published a trove of data stolen from U.S. police agencies, the group’s co-founder says. Emma Best, who helps lead the Distributed Denial of Secrets group, said in a tweet Tuesday that prosecutors in the municipality of Zwickau have taken the group’s “primary public download server.” In an advisory that Best tweeted, police said the server was seized by the department of public prosecution. “Please understand that we are not allowed to provide any further information regarding this case,” note states. The move comes weeks after DDoSecrets published the BlueLeaks files, a 269 GB collection of materials taken from U.S. law enforcement bodies, including police training materials, safety guides and instructions on how to contain demonstrations. DDoSecrets published BlueLeaks amid ongoing U.S. protests following the police killing of George Floyd and other unarmed Black Americans. German […]
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A conspiracy spreads on social media about Coronavirus tracing apps, US police find decades’ worth of sensitive data leaked online, and is there a Bitcoin bonanza to be had from watching Elon Musk YouTube videos?
All this and much more is discuss… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #184: Vanity Bitcoin wallets, BlueLeaks, and a Coronavirus app conspiracy
The activist group Distributed Denial of Secrets, perhaps better known by their shorter but clumsy moniker DDoSecrets, has been permanently banned from Twitter. The self-declared “transparency collective”, which published leaked and hacked … Continue reading DDoSecrets thrown off Twitter after distributing 269GB BlueLeaks data dump
Anonymous and Distributed Denial of Secrets have published 269 GB of private law-enforcement data. What were they thinking?
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The journalist collective DDoSecrets published nearly 270GB of data on Juneteenth: the date commemorating the end of US enslavement.
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