NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two security experts said they have figured out how to spy on Verizon Wireless mobile phone customers by hacking into devices the U.S. carrier sells to boost wireless signals indoors. The finding, which the experts demonstrated to Reuters and will further detail at two hacking conferences this summer, comes at a […]
PRISM: European Commission demands answers over ‘disturbing’ NSA surveillance
The European Commission (EC) has responded in no uncertain terms to the allegations of NSA surveillance taking place at its premises, demanding full clarification and transparency from the US government over its activities. Documents seen by the German newspaper Spiegel suggest that not only were bugs installed by US surveillance in the EU’s offices in Washington, but […]
Security guard ‘training’ company scammed customers during financial crisis: lawsuit
A midtown firm that billed itself as a security guard training company was actually a sham that bilked more than 15,000 customers out of $500 fees for jobs that didn’t exist, a new Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit charges. State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman slapped 1st Security Preparation and Placement and its owner Allen Haft with […]
Kevin Michael Sianez, Cop-Turned-Illegal P.I., Cops to Defrauding and Intimidating But What About Getting Women to Screw His Dog?
Former police officer Kevin Michael Sianez pleaded guilty Thursday to 17 felony counts of grand theft by false pretense, 11 felony counts of fraudulently using an access card, two felony counts of identity theft, four felony counts of possession of a firearm by a felon stemming from a 1998 conviction for stalking, six felony counts […]
Wig-wearing American spy detained in Moscow, Russian officials say
Novice spy gear. Cash. A recruitment letter. Bad wigs. That’s what Russia’s Federal Security Service said an American accused of being a spy was carrying when he allegedly tried to recruit a Russian agent for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. The Russian counterintelligence bureau now wants the man, identified as Ryan Christopher Fogle, expelled from […]
