Sondra Arquiett, who had never set up a Facebook page, had her identity stolen by US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent Timothy Sinnigen in order to communicate with “wanted fugitive[s]” in regard to a drug ring. Arquiett’s image was taken from her cell phone which was seized by law enforcement officers after she was arrested for…
Mozilla has released their new add-on called Lightbeam for Firefox users that will allow users to see who is tracking them across the World Wide Web. Alex Fowler, speaking for Mozilla, said: “While revelations about government surveillance continue to stun people around the world, there’s another area of online data collection with its own complicated transparency challenges that remains…
Kaspersky Lab has uncovered Operation Red October, (Rocra) a 5-year scheme by the Chinese and Russians to steal diplomatic, industrial and scientific data from Eastern Europe, North America and Asian organizations. Beginning in 2007, intelligence gathering operations were conducted in the form of attacks by cybercriminals toward Western nations. The thought is that this is in retribution…
