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Tuesday, December 13, 2016
US Federal Bureau of Investigation - gets sued
US Federal Bureau of Investigation - gets sued
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Monday, December 5, 2016
Federal Appeals Court - Clears domestic spying of a would be bomber
Federal Appeals Court - Clears domestic spying of a would be bomber
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Monday, November 14, 2016
FBI now using Dataminr to monitor social media
FBI now using Dataminr to monitor social media
https://crimeshop.org/2016/11/14/fbi-now-using-dataminr-to-monitor-social-media/
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Sunday, November 6, 2016
FBI Director James Comey -the right leader for the FBI?
FBI Director James Comey -the right leader for the FBI?
https://crimeshop.org/2016/11/05/fbi-director-james-comey-still-the-right-leader-for-the-fbi/
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Saturday, October 29, 2016
FBI Director James Comey, The martyr
FBI Director James Comey, The martyr
https://crimeshop.org/2016/10/29/fbi-director-james-comey-the-martyr/
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Monday, October 24, 2016
Feds - The National Security Agency Fails at Security... Again
Feds - The National Security Agency Fails at Security... Again
https://crimeshop.org/2016/10/20/feds-the-national-security-agency-fails-at-security-again/
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Superior Court judge attempts to bribe FBI agent
Superior Court judge attempts to bribe FBI agent
https://crimeshop.org/2016/10/24/north-carolina-superior-court-judge-attempts-to-bribe-fbi-agent/
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Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
U.S. NSA contractor arrested
U.S. National Security Agency contractor arrested
https://crimeshop.org/2016/10/05/u-s-national-security-agency-contractor-arrested/
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Thursday, September 8, 2016
Bitcoiners who use Tor be warned
Bitcoiners who use Tor be warned
Revised Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure
A nifty little law was passed earlier this year by the US supreme court that will allow the FBI to use a single warrant to hack as many computers they’d like to, anywhere in the US and quite possibly the world or so those who are against the ruling say.
Basically the change means that a single warrant can be obtained to hack a single electronic device and any other electronic devices that were somehow connected to or in some way associated with the original source.
In other words the change to Rule 41 will be a single warrant that will be used for mass surveillance.
The running theory going around the web is that, a single warrant that is issued anywhere in America would then allow the FBI to control as many computers that were associated with the original source on a botnet.
Whether or not they were located in the United States.
This change leaves Tor and its equivalents feeling like they are prime targets. They feel that the change to Rule 41 is designed to attack Tor through its user base.
The change in the current law will take effect 12/1/2016.
Sen. Ron Wyden-D-Oregon is fighting the revision to Rule 41 which he says is a “staggering expansion of government hacking and surveillance authority.”
Not surprising, the measure hasn’t received a hearing or markup, yet Sen. Wyden is hopeful that a hearing or markup are coming soon.
Let's not forget, that Sen Wyden does in fact have support from other lawmakers, the ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Sen. Wyden’s argument is pretty clear, he says that “this major policy change is going to make it easier for the government to hack into the personal devices of Americans and collect information about them, making American’s feel less safe instead of more.”
He fears that not only would this change grant the Government the ability to hack into a perpetrators device but also the victims which might be considered yet another attack on the victim.
He also feels that the government could also end up damaging, our personal devices, power grids, hospitals and nearly any other system connected to the internet.
Which is a fear that is totally founded, the US Government did manage to infect millions of computers worldwide and the networks of foreign Government’s with malware.
Sen. Wyden started to step up his game last week and in all honesty seeing someone who serves as an elected official fight for the rights of the American People is a rather refreshing change compared to what we normally see from our elected officials.
It is unclear if encrypted data and encrypted devices would be of a challenge to our Government’s hack-a-thon, should the changes to Rule 41 actually take effect on December 1, 2016.
Guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
Cristal M Clark
Monday, August 22, 2016
Hacking the NSA is so easy a child could do it...from the inside.
NSA hack an inside Job
or is the Russian Government using hackers to breach everything
A newly published article today accuses Russian hackers of breaching the Olympic drug testing agency…
Many assumed that Russia was behind the hack of the DNC.
Headlines last Friday suggest that Russia has hacked The Donald’s campaign.
Everyone assumes that Russia is behind the hack of the NSA and Edward Snowden has reportedly issued a statement that indicates Russia was most likely responsible for the hack at the NSA.
What the hell haven’t they hacked? Wait, they have not hacked Starbuck’s making it so that I have a lifetime supply of coffee.
It could have been Russia who by the way denies any involvement in these hacks.
What was the loot in the NSA hack?
Well as it so happens the hack exposed cyber-weapons intel. That intel reveals just how the NSA hacks suspects and enemies and further details a tracking code that just so happens to reveal the fingerprints of the NSA's malicious software.
So we really have to wonder what Russia might have to gain if they are truly behind the hack of the NSA? I mean the DNC might have been a just for fun type of thing if Russia was behind it, but what about the NSA? Does Russia feel the NSA had at one time infiltrated them and downloaded some type of malicious software?
To fully understand that, you need to get to know The Equation Group and TAO, two branches of the NSA.
Kaspersky labs describes The Equation Group as “one of the most sophisticated cyber attack groups in the world.” The Equation Group according to Kaspersky labs has operated alongside Stuxnet and Flame.
TAO identifies, monitors and has a nasty little habit of infiltrating and gathering intelligence on computer systems used by foreign entities to the US.
Anyone who has seen the Stuxnet documentary knows that it is widely believed that Stuxnet was created jointly by the US and Israel.
Which makes total sense because Israel is reportedly 15 years ahead of everyone else in terms of Cyber-Defense and Security.
Russia however, was one of the named 42 countries that the Equation Group infiltrated over the course of its 14 year project creating backdoors to foreign Government networks.
Not only did the Equation Group create backdoors, they also seemed to enjoy intercepting hardware from IT companies, globally.
It’s also worth mentioning that the Equation Group has a pretty good reputation for using strong ENCRYPTION methods. They just can’t seem to figure out a way around encryption when folks like Apple create it for consumers to use.
So who kicked in the door at the NSA?
A group called Shadow Brokers took the credit for hacking the NSA. Things got a little crazy when they came out because they boasted rather audaciously and offered to auction off the goods for $576 Bitcoins.
Bidders backed way off and the general consensus has been that those responsible for the breach were not just some run of the mill hackers but a foreign Government, hiding behind the idea the breach was caused by a group of nobody hackers.
From that, another theory sparked a lot of interest and that was, that someone inside of the NSA was in fact responsible for the leaked intel.
Out of all of the theories, this is actually what more than likely happened.
The NSA stores sensitive information on air-gapped networks, which are networks that are not connected to the internet, i.e. the outside world. They also have other security measures, not to mention despite being a pain in the ass to crack, it’s still doable.
They can be cracked through the use of undetected malware, cell phones, as Edward Snowden proved a flash drive, even a sim card can do the trick.
The point is, it’s pretty clear that the responsible party is within the ranks at the NSA.
Now, I am not saying that I am convinced that Edward Snowden had anything to do with it however…
A strange sequence of events happened shortly before the breach.
On 8/5, Edward Snowden reached out through Twitter, with an odd message to those that knew him or who ever worked with him asking them to contact him followed by 64 characters of code. That message lead many to believe that Edward had been captured or killed and failed to do a check-in prompting his account to send out a dead man’s switch. His account went silent after the odd tweets.
Shortly after that, at least 8 torrent sites had been taken down or slowed. The sites are well known to distribute large files.
News of the hack and leak at the NSA broke on 8/15
Edward Snowden began tweeting again on 8/15
Edward Snowden seems to think that the Russian Government is behind some of these hacks and has said as much through the media....initially it was almost as if he was handing out the idea like we hand out candy at Halloween.
And I, don’t believe in coincidence.
I also don’t believe that the Russian Government was behind the hacks. It’s too neatly wrapped with the bow neatly tied on top.
Blaming the Russian Government seems too easy, too perfect and too convenient.
The hack came from the inside and the NSA just got owned again.
Cristal M Clark
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Texas police officer also a Drug Dealer
Texas police officer also a Drug Dealer
Leading a double life can sometimes get you killed
Julian Pesina sold drugs for the Mexican Mafia, also known as La Eme, while at the same time serving as a police officer for Balcones Heights, hiding his gang tattoos under the safety of the uniform he bore.
Julian was gunned down on May 4, 2014 by the gang whom he pledged allegiance to after having learned of his daytime job as a police officer from Facebook.
Even more problematic for Julian, the feds and the SAPD were investigating his involvement with the Mexican Mafia and were poised to arrest him but, the gang got to him first.
His sentence from the feds would have included prison time, his sentence from the gang he was affiliated with, well it was death.
On that fateful day Julian was outside of a tattoo shop that he owned. The FBI had set up surveillance of the shop and saw the entire murder play out.
Jerry “Spooks” Idrogo plead guilty to the murder last Friday, he also plead guilty to the murder of another man Texas Mexican Mafia member Billy Padilla, who Jerry killed in back in 2013 for not turning over the organization's cut of drug money.
The gang’s Texas presence gained power in the 1980s, according to court documents and it’s still growing and going strong.
To gain membership into the gang, inductees have to commit a criminal act, which could include the murder of an enemy.
And according to the gang’s constitution, cooperation with law enforcement was punishable by death.
So Julian just being a cop was enough to seal his fate once the gang discovered that. What makes Julian’s murder interesting however is the fact that it is not unusual or uncommon according to author Tony Rafael, to find civil servants among the gang’s ranks.
Tony says that it the group is very good at the art of being able to coerce people into doing things for them or things that would benefit the gang. According to Tony, they have corrupted social workers for the gang and even police. They are from what Tony says quite capable and excellent manipulators.
As with any individual who has a manipulative personality, they seek out the weak, someone that has something to gain through the manipulation process. After all, regardless of victim or criminal, every relationship we choose to have, has some benefit for both parties, otherwise we wouldn’t have them.
But for a manipulative person, the benefit from searching out the weak and manipulating them is sometimes criminal intent. They get the weak to do their bidding thus shielding them from the law.
Just how it was that Julian ended up in uniform is a mystery, he was part of the gang prior to becoming a cop so it’s a valid question.
It’s clear that he somehow managed to keep his life as a gang member from surfacing when he accepted and took the job as a cop.
That question, well it has never really been answered, let alone addressed.
Did he want out, was it a past he couldn’t quite escape or did he enjoy the benefits of leading a life as a cop and a criminal?
We may never know now because Julian Pesina was murdered by one of his own for being a cop.
One thing that we do know for sure is that a member of the Mexican Mafia managed to become a cop in Texas.
Cristal M Clark
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Tuesday, August 16, 2016
US Government start using encryption
US Government to change mind on encryption
Well at the very least, they should.
Ahhh the hacking over at the DNC, the hacking of the NSA linked spies, the IRS, the US military last year...it amazes me that our own government has not warmed to the idea of encryption.
One of the most appealing reasons consumers love encryption is because we feel safer having it.
In today’s world we have moved to a more technological way of living.
We shop online, pay for things with watches or phones, start cars with both, we can turn the air on or off in our homes from a phone, I can order Starbucks and pay for it all day long and go get it without having to say two words to anyone, we can even check our refrigerators from our phones.
We can can monitor how well we brush our teeth or not, from a phone app, check our health, heart rate, eating habit, calorie intake, workout routine, or get a new routine, yoga instructions and start a pot of coffee all from a phone, watch or tablet, if not all three.
The way we communicate with one another is also a lot less verbal than it was 10 years ago and why pay for a stamp or actually talk on the phone when it’s just as easy to send a quick text or email, or chat on Facebook or Whats App?
While we are at all of this, we choose encrypted devices and services so as to better protect ourselves from hackers. We lock our cars, our homes, we keep our money in banks instead of under a mattress and we do that why?
To keep it all safe from thieves of course. And that is how we view our messages, our data, our emails, our ability to shop online, to pay for things with our devices instead of a plastic card or paper and coin currency.
We have James Comey who still seeks a backdoor to encrypted devices and services when it’s warranted but we also see a telling reality that our government simply lacks the ability to be trusted should they ever be granted these backdoors. 
For the sake of argument if a government can’t bother to encrypt it’s own devices and data, any backdoor they were given, well that would be gone and into the hands of hackers at some point.
Last August FBI Director James Comey testified before Congress and said that that terror groups are in fact, using encrypted programs to hide their communications from prying eyes and that they are aggressively targeting young Americans online and they are succeeding.
So that really even last year wasn’t new news. If you ever ventured onto the dark web into the right places, you sort of already knew that.
So instead of look at the actual real underlying issues as to why any young American would want to join a terror group like ISIS, we want to tout that encryption is bad. It’s evil and so so bad and it allows these bad guys to communicate...secretly.
That means, our government fears it. Rather than try to learn it much less outsmart it, they want to instill this fear. Yet I look around me and I see the guys at organizations like Apple, Whats App, Facebook, as well as many others working with encryption daily, making it smarter, easier for me to work with, understand and use.
And I along with many others trust it.
Ahh but here is the catch, these organizations make encryption user friendly to a consumer, instead of something to be feared. They are giving me exactly what I want and they have a great track record so I trust it.
So personally, I tend to feel that our government needs to come forward a few decades in terms of really understanding encryption, society and how we use things like, technology.
Some within our Government think that encryption puts us all at risk. I beg to differ, it’s our government’s lack of knowledge that does, not encryption.
Should companies like Apple, work with any government entity when faced with an issue like opening an iPhone for let’s say a person who committed an act of terror?
I vote for yes but only to an extent. They should help them open a device or message only if certain extreme conditions have occurred such as an act of terror.
Should they create backdoors and hand them to the FBI? Not at this point because our own government can’t be trusted with it and simply does not have the ability to secure it.
If a backdoor is needed to get into anything, its much safer at the company that created it and not ever in the hands of anyone at our government.
If our government creates a backdoor at some point (highly doubtful, very highly doubtful) fine.
The biggest issue however, is that our own government lacks the knowledge to deal with encryption, they can’t use it, don’t understand it and are reacting more out of fear than with knowledge.
According to Edward Snowden the recent hack of the NSA could be a warning from Moscow. By the way it's good to see Edward back and tweeting again.
If what he says is true, our government truly doesn't have what it takes to defend us when it comes to the cyber world.
As far as I can tell the issues and problems are not encryption, not in the least.
It’s the criminals and more importantly, that our government has been caught with it’s pants down over things like emails where what was said in them should have never been sent in an email if you didn’t want to get caught in the first place.
Emails that should have never been on a server that could be hacked, messages that should have been on an encrypted device, maybe?
If the most recent hacks have not opened our government's eyes from the slumber of ignorance they have been in, I am not sure what will.
I really think that our government needs to start being part of the solution instead of the problem since hackers keep catching them with their pants down.
Cristal M Clark
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Thursday, August 4, 2016
ISIS is planning attack on US air bases in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain
ISIS is planning attack on US air bases in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain
That's according to an Israeli cyber-intelligence group who have reported to media sources that they have breached Telegram group on the dark web, which is run by jihadists.
It is rumored that the Islamic state uses Telegram to organize operatives and to disseminate terror attack plans among 500 of its leading activists.
According to the Israeli company who breached Telegram, the Islamic State uses the site to upload potential targets to the group. They reported that in recent months some of the targets have been hit by individuals claiming allegiance to the terror organization.
One of the targets found during the hack was the recently attacked church in Normandy, France where Father Jacques Hamel was murdered by the terrorist group. The Israeli cyber-intelligence group says that the attack on the church was planned months ago according to communication found on Telegram.
This brings us to cyber-intelligence/cyber-security, you can’t have one without the other and quite frankly, the US is falling way below the bar on both fronts.
Both Israel and Russia are reported to be two very powerful forces in terms of cyber-intelligence, cyber defense and cyber-security. China, North Korea, Iran all rank higher than the US.
In fact, Iran is considered a dangerous cyber threat to the US.
ISIS is using the dark web to communicate with its followers. ISIS is not the only extremist group using the dark web for communications either.
Our country would be best served if our Government would better align themselves with countries who are more capable at cyber-intelligence and security and the cyber-security firms in those said countries. We are all better served if we could learn to work together with these other countries and firms to fight the war on terror and to thwart cyber related crimes in general.
Think about it, other countries have surpassed the US when it comes to both cyber-intelligence and cyber-security for years and we don’t seem to be moving at all. These other countries have also set up cyber defense and the programs they have are not for the faint of heart.
Today Business Insider ran a story with a headline stating “The terrible recovery from the Great Recession is due to Congress’ economic incompetence.” I bring that to your attention because it is in fact true, Congress is out of touch with the realities of our world on all fronts, that includes cyber security, intelligence and defense.
The media is partly to blame here as well, I mean if the FBI asks for a change to a law the media makes it out to be the NSA is spying on all of us all the time...
Recently the FBI did ask for a change to the a law that pertains to being able to access someone’s browsing history and other electronic data for certain types of suspected crimes.
Of course the media had a field day with it, they lead everyone to believe the FBI was going to be able to access browsing history from anyone and everyone, all history, see the sites you visit, the pages on those sites and who knows what else...turned out that was not even close to what the FBI could actually access if they had been granted the change and the request was denied, rightfully so.
The reality was, the intel they could have obtained from this change was so rudimentary it amounted to basically the FBI obtaining no useful intel at all. The intel the FBI would have gotten was so rudimentary it would have been a waste of time.
The fact is, between all of us throwing fits over our “rights” which we completely take for granted and confuse with privilege, the media blowing things out of proportion and congress’ incompetence when it comes to cyber-intelligence and security, it is no surprise that we aren’t even close to the bar in terms of cyber defense.
Then we have encryption, I am not against it and I am also not for it when a crime has occurred. I believe that ways around it are needed when you are dealing with an ongoing investigation. I also believe that if our government has ways around it, which I agree at times they should, we need oversight so that, that power it is not abused.
We want our government to protect us and be able to defend us from cyber attacks of all levels and kinds, and we want them to be able to thwart terrorist attacks, yet we are the first to accuse them of taking away our rights and freedoms if they come up some new tool to us to obtain data intel which is part of cyber security.
We refuse to meet in the middle and we refuse to better align ourselves with other countries who are far more superior to our own with cyber defense and capabilities.
A lot can be said for the argument that some things a government does should be kept secret from it’s citizens because sometimes the citizens of that country are simply not ready to know or come to terms with the truth.
Our government needs to be able to learn and utilize tools as much as they can without the media or us citizens assuming they are spying on us. They also need to learn to work with countries that are superior to us in terms of cyber defense long before we can begin to protect this nation from cyber attacks.
We need to give them permission to learn it and use it. They can’t learn it if they aren’t using it, and they are not using it because we prevent them from learning it.
It’s almost as if we truly do enjoy being reactive, we love to walk on the edge and expect someone to catch us when we fall.
We as a country need to come to grips with the reality that cyber crime is on the rise and will continue to rise. It will become more scary and dangerous and once the ability to hack falls into the hands of these extremist groups, it will forever change the playing field.
Until our nation becomes better at cyber defense, security and intelligence, my money is on the other guys finding out about a planned attack long before we do.
Cristal M Clark
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016
The Donald strongly encourages Russia to Hack Hillary Clinton
The Donald strongly encourages Russia to Hack Hillary Clinton
Trump implies that he is open to a new hack as long as it benefits his campaign
While watching the news conference I was so shocked by what I heard that I almost dropped my cup of coffee and what’s worse is that I didn’t care. If you know me, you know my relationship with coffee and the not caring over spilled coffee….
For the first time in history a presidential candidate is actively encouraging a foreign power to commit espionage...the first time in history.
Don’t get me wrong, I rather enjoy the antics of the Donald. He is a much needed refreshing break from, well anyone in office currently, I can’t however be excited about his remarks today during his news conference in Florida today.
Donald is well known for saying things that might be a wee bit inappropriate but today was a little over that wee bit part.
During his news conference Donald stated “Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press…”
He went on to insinuate that he feels they most likely already have the 30,000 missing emails and that he’d like to see them.
Some are now accusing him of being disloyal to America over his remarks. I don’t feel that he is disloyal, I do feel that he lacks the full understanding of what his statements mean, could potentially cause and how it will affect all of America should anyone try to take him up on his suggestion.
More importantly perhaps, while most don’t trust Hillary, is this the guy you want running our nation? Someone pisses him off and he encourages a foreign nation to take some type of action against that individual then later says that he really didn’t mean what he said?
Wars have been started over much less, in this day and age as violent as our world can be, is it really a time to mince words?
This comes on the heels of the recent hack on the Democratic National Committee, a hack that most believe Russia is behind in an attempt to influence the outcome of our upcoming presidential election.
Steven Cheung, the Donald’s rapid response director suggested that the Donald simply meant that if Russia or anyone had those 30,000 missing emails that they turn them over to the FBI.
Trump also later tweeted “if Russia or any other country or person has Hillary Clinton's 33,000 illegally deleted emails, perhaps they should share them with the FBI!"
As for the FBI, I can’t imagine what James Comey and his team thought upon initially hearing the words that came out of the Donald’s mouth, it had to have come as a little bit of a shock initially.
The reality is that Hillary has a long list of haters people that would love to see the woman fall off of a cliff and disappear, out of those haters, do gooders, or great hackers someone although it was not the Donald’s intention, might try to hack Hillary or the FBI, DOJ etc.
And if someone does in fact have her emails already as the Donald suggests, I doubt they would turn them over at this point in time. If let’s say Russian hackers do in fact have them, it would serve no purpose to turn them over at the moment.
The bigger question is, did the Donald break any laws through his very publicized initial request? Did he commit treason as some are now suggesting?
Perhaps not, but what if it turns out that his words do in fact inspire someone? Through his very suggestion, he did put our nation's security at risk. No American citizen not one who were to make comments like the Donald did today would be out walking around tonight without first having a little sit down with law enforcement.
In May of 2015, Newsweek published an article about Russia’s greatest weapon being it’s hackers. Are we ready to face that reality as a nation? I personally do not believe that we are yet, I also don’t believe that we or our presidential candidates should try to incite Russia or it’s hackers to hack a fellow candidate because through that we open the door to so much more.
Cristal M Clark
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