Category Archives: Distributed Denial of Secrets

The FBI’s digital security guide for local police actually has good OPSEC advice

Posted on by

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 […]

The post The FBI’s digital security guide for local police actually has good OPSEC advice appeared first on CyberScoop.

Continue reading The FBI’s digital security guide for local police actually has good OPSEC advice→

German police seize DDoSecrets server distributing ‘BlueLeaks’ files

Posted on by

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 […]

The post German police seize DDoSecrets server distributing ‘BlueLeaks’ files appeared first on CyberScoop.

Continue reading German police seize DDoSecrets server distributing ‘BlueLeaks’ files→

DDoSecrets thrown off Twitter after distributing 269GB BlueLeaks data dump

Posted on by

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→

‘Distributed Denial of Secrets’ publishes ‘Blue Leaks,’ a trove of law enforcement records

Posted on by

An anonymous hacktivist group says it’s published a trove of sensitive law enforcement data that originated with hundreds of police departments in an apparent effort to expose police abuses amid ongoing demonstrations through the U.S. The “Distributed Denial of Secrets” group marked Juneteenth, the June 19 holiday marking the end of slavery in the U.S., by publishing a searchable database containing 269 GB of data apparently stolen from more than 200 law enforcement agencies. The database, which the group has named “Blue Leaks,” appears to contain police training materials, police safety guidelines and protest containment strategies. The files also may contain names, email addresses, phone numbers and a large number of text and video files, according to a June 20 alert from the National Fusion Center Association obtained by security journalist Brian Krebs. The association reported that the data surfaced following an apparent breach at Netsential, a Houston-based web development […]

The post ‘Distributed Denial of Secrets’ publishes ‘Blue Leaks,’ a trove of law enforcement records appeared first on CyberScoop.

Continue reading ‘Distributed Denial of Secrets’ publishes ‘Blue Leaks,’ a trove of law enforcement records→

‘BlueLeaks’ Exposes Files from Hundreds of Police Departments

Posted on by

Hundreds of thousands of potentially sensitive files from police departments across the United States were leaked online last week. The collection, dubbed “BlueLeaks” and made searchable via a new website by the same name, stems from a security breach at a Texas web design and hosting company that maintains a number of state law enforcement data-sharing portals online. Continue reading ‘BlueLeaks’ Exposes Files from Hundreds of Police Departments→