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Secret Service Tracking People’s Locations without Warrant

November 21 2024 By Bruce Schneier in Privacy, secret service, Security, surveillance

This feels important: The Secret Service has used a technology called Locate X which uses location data harvested from ordinary apps installed on phones. Because users agreed to an opaque...

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Riding the State Unemployment Fraud ‘Wave’

May 23 2020 By BrianKrebs in Agari, Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, Patrick Peterson, Scattered Canary, secret service, Web Fraud 2.0

When a reliable method of scamming money out of people, companies or governments becomes widely known, underground forums and chat networks tend to light up with activity as more...

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