Tag: Cops
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Drugs and Cybercrime Market Busted By German Cops
German police claim to have disrupted the country’s most popular underground market for drugs and cybercrime. Düsseldorf police said it …
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Cops visit school of ‘wrong person’s child,’ mix up victims and suspects in epic data fail
The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office has put the West Midlands Police (WMP) on the naughty step after the force was found to have …
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Cops visit school of ‘wrong person’s child,’ mix up victims and suspects in epic data fail
The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office has put the West Midlands Police (WMP) on the naughty step after the force was found to have …
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Cops turn LockBit ransomware gang’s countdown timers against them
In seizing and dismantling LockBit’s infrastructure, Western authorities are now making a mockery of the ransomware criminals by promising …
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Cops turn LockBit’s ransomware gang’s countdown timers against them
In seizing and dismantling LockBit’s infrastructure, Western authorities are now making a mockery of the ransomware criminals by promising …
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Ring Will Stop Giving Cops a Free Pass on Warrantless Video Requests
The Amazon-owned home surveillance company says it is shuttering a feature in its Neighbors app that allows police to request footage from …
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Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on It
Leaked records reveal what appears to be the first known instance of a police department attempting to use facial recognition on a face …
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Google Just Denied Cops a Key Surveillance Tool
Plus: Apple tightens anti-theft protections, Chinese hackers penetrate US critical infrastructure, and the long-running rumor of …
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Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records
A WIRED analysis of leaked police documents verifies that a secretive government program is allowing federal, state, and local law …
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Surveillance Commissioner Blasts Cops for Data Retention
British police continue to hold millions of images of innocent citizens a decade after being ordered to destroy them, the UK’s outgoing …
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Cops drill into chat apps, sink plot to smuggle tons of coke into Europe
Efforts by cops to seize and shut down encrypted messaging apps favored by criminals, and then mine their conversations for evidence, …
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