John Shiffman and David Ingram report: Details of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration program that feeds tips to federal agents and then instructs them to alter the investigative trail were published in a manual used by agents of the Internal Revenue Service for two years. The practice of recreating the investigative trail, highly criticized by…
Category: Govt
Senator Schumer’s response to my concerns about NSA surveillance
Thank you for contacting me to express your opposition to the recent revelations about the work of the National Security Agency. I share your concerns about protecting civil liberties while still keeping America safe. Twelve years after September 11th, our country has made great strides to prevent another terrorist attack against Americans at home and…
Surveillance scandal rips through hacker community
Seth Rosenblatt reports on the fall-out from recent disclosures of NSA surveillance and use of exploits: Information security professionals are not unified in their interpretation of Alexander’s attempt at a mea culpa at last week’s Black Hat conference here. Alex Stamos, a network infrastructure and security expert and the chief technical officer of Artemis, the company proposing…
Feds are Suspects in New Malware That Attacks Tor Anonymity (Update2)
Kevin Poulsen reports: Security researchers tonight are poring over a piece of malicious software that takes advantage of a Firefox security vulnerability to identify some users of the privacy-protecting Tor anonymity network. The malware showed up Sunday morning on multiple websites hosted by the anonymous hosting company Freedom Hosting. That would normally be considered a…