POLICE Logo
MenuMENU
SearchSEARCH
Enter keywords to search across all content
Newsby Staff WriterMarch 7, 2016

Miami-Dade Officers Have Private Info Hacked, Released on Website

Miami-Dade County is investigating a breach of privacy that has affected more than 1,000 police officers and other county employees.

Read More →
Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 9, 2016

FLEOA Issues Statement on Latest Federal Security Hack

The government's leisurely reaction to these cyber incidents continues to put the personal information of federal employees in jeopardy, particularly those with high-level security access.

Read More →
Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 9, 2016

Hacker Posts FBI, DHS Employee Data

A hacker on Monday published information that exposes the names, titles, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses for thousands of FBI employees, after leaking similar data about 9,000 Department of Homeland Security employees Sunday.

Read More →
Ad Loading...
Newsby Staff WriterDecember 29, 2015

Experts Say Police Agencies Are Prime Targets for Ransomware Attacks

IT teams at law enforcement agencies across the United States have been dealing with an unusual challenge. White collar criminals, mostly based in foreign countries, have begun targeting police departments with “ransomware”—software that infects a computer and overwrites data, making a system inaccessible unless the user pays a ransom via Bitcoin.

Read More →
Newsby Staff WriterMay 4, 2015

'Hacktivists' Outside U.S. Stir Baltimore Unrest via Social Media

Bad actors and so-called "hacktivists" descended on Baltimore — electronically, at least — last week, flooding social media with automated accounts and inauthentic images in an effort to spur violence.

Read More →
Newsby Staff WriterMarch 12, 2015

Hackers Launch Attack on Madison Government Sites After Controversial OIS

Cyber attackers are targeting city and county computer systems in Madison, Wisconsin, following last Friday's shooting of a 19-year-old black man by police, city officials say.

Read More →
Ad Loading...
Newsby Staff WriterDecember 11, 2014

Oakland Police Websites Hacked Over Protest Response

The Oakland police department and city websites were offline on Wednesday and activist hackers from the Anonymous collective who threatened to take action against law enforcement over the Bay Area demonstrations claimed responsibility for the outage.

Read More →
Newsby Staff WriterNovember 24, 2014

Anonymous Shuts Down Cleveland City Website Over Boy's Shooting by Police

International vigilante hacker organization Anonymous has claimed responsibility for taking down the City of Cleveland's website.

Read More →
Newsby Staff WriterOctober 28, 2014

Video: Hackers Bring Down Phoenix PD Internet Access Temporarily

Hackers have attacked the City of Phoenix internet system and over the weekend caused a disruption to the police department's computers. Officers couldn't access data via computers in their cars for 45 minutes.

Read More →
Ad Loading...
Articlesby Melanie BasichSeptember 19, 2014

Cyber Terrorism: Preventing Online Assault

Hackers constantly target law enforcement. Whatever the intent, with our dependence on technology it's more important than ever that police agencies protect themselves against cyber terrorist attacks.

Read More →