July 17, 2018

Twitter shutters accounts linked to US election hacking

The move comes after special counsel Robert Mueller's indictment of 12 Russians believed to have used the accounts as fronts in US election hacking.

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April 13, 2018

Fake Hillary porn just the tip of Russia’s Reddit penetration

How Russian trolls embraced rule 34 (but Redditors didn't buy it)

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November 28, 2017

Most Fancy Bear hacking targets weren’t warned by FBI

In some cases, that includes not being contacted by the FBI even after their emails had been stolen and published online.

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February 13, 2017

Fancy Bear: who’s behind the group implicated in so many political hacks?

What do we know about the group known as Fancy Bear? Geoff White of Channel 4 News sifts through the evidence about the hacking group behind some high-profile cyber-attacks

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January 06, 2017

FBI refutes DNC claims about not investigating servers

Ongoing tit-for-tat dates back to the FBI's investigation of Hillary Clinton's private email server

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November 01, 2016

The Clinton emails – from humble iMac to data center

Hillary Clinton's email server has been at the heart of the election, but how did that happen?

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October 13, 2016

Clinton campaign official’s Twitter account hijacked: “I’ve switched teams”

The top Clinton campaign official has had a brand new Outlook account broken into and his Twitter account hijacked. Blame password reuse!

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September 20, 2016

House panel looking into Reddit post linked to Clinton’s deleted email

A Redditor submitted a request 2 years ago, seeking advice on how to strip out a "VERY VIP" email address "from a bunch of archived email."

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September 02, 2016

“Hillary Clinton hacker” Guccifer sentenced to 52 months for other crimes

The star-studded hacker cracked 100 US email accounts, including those of Colin Powell and George Bush.

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