Collaborate Disseminate
By Habiba Rashid
The Metropolitan Police Force faces a major security crisis as the contractor’s IT system is breached.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: IT Contractor Data Breach Affects 47,000 Met Police Personnel
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‘Ello ello ello. What’s all this then?
Just days after it was learned that the police had exposed the details of their 10,000 staff in Northern Ireland, another force has admitted to an embarrassing breach of sensitive data.
Read more in my artic… Continue reading Cumbria Police accidentally publish officers’ names and salaries online
Earlier this week, the details of all 10,000 staff at the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) were exposed after a spreadsheet containing the data was mistakenly published online. Continue reading 10,000 N Ireland police officers and staff have their details exposed after spreadsheet screw-up
By Waqas
The victim, 38-year-old Fernando Perez Algaba, was a self-made cryptocurrency millionaire whose dismembered body was found in a suitcase in an Argentinean town on July 27, 2023.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Police A… Continue reading Police Arrest Suspect in Crypto Millionaire’s Murder
Seems that there is a deliberate backdoor in the twenty-year-old TErrestrial Trunked RAdio (TETRA) standard used by police forces around the world.
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), an organization that standardizes technologies across the industry, first created TETRA in 1995. Since then, TETRA has been used in products, including radios, sold by Motorola, Airbus, and more. Crucially, TETRA is not open-source. Instead, it relies on what the researchers describe in their presentation slides as “secret, proprietary cryptography,” meaning it is typically difficult for outside experts to verify how secure the standard really is…
There’s a lot of news going around today about the French Government’s new policy to allow police to remotely take over a suspect’s devices, with access to cameras, microphones and GPS data. But if you think that’s uncommon, you’d be very mistaken.Cont… Continue reading It’s not just France: Your phone is a surveillance device
Motherboard is reporting on AI-generated voices being used for “swatting”:
In fact, Motherboard has found, this synthesized call and another against Hempstead High School were just one small part of a months-long, nationwide campaign of dozens, and potentially hundreds, of threats made by one swatter in particular who has weaponized computer generated voices. Known as “Torswats” on the messaging app Telegram, the swatter has been calling in bomb and mass shooting threats against highschools and other locations across the country. Torswat’s connection to these wide ranging swatting incidents has not been previously reported. The further automation of swatting techniques threatens to make an already dangerous harassment technique more prevalent…
By Waqas
The Criminal Records Office (ACRO) of the United Kingdom has acknowledged the cyberattack but did not confirm whether it was a ransomware attack.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: UK Criminal Records Office Crippled by P… Continue reading UK Criminal Records Office Crippled by Potential Ransomware Attack
Following the development and rollout of a “big hole” hybrid three-wheeled scooter for police and emergency services, UK-based R&D outfit White Motorcycle Concepts has teamed up with Mahle Powertrain to produce a fully electric version.Continue Reading… Continue reading WMC and Mahle partner for electric “big hole” three-wheel police scooter
Here’s a story about a hacker who reprogrammed a device called “Flipper Zero” to mimic Opticom transmitters—to turn traffic lights in his path green.
As mentioned earlier, the Flipper Zero has a built-in sub-GHz radio that lets the device receive data (or transmit it, with the right firmware in approved regions) on the same wireless frequencies as keyfobs and other devices. Most traffic preemption devices intended for emergency traffic redirection don’t actually transmit signals over RF. Instead, they use optical technology to beam infrared light from vehicles to static receivers mounted on traffic light poles…