Imagine a bank in Manhattan receives a number of strange online requests for access to its accounts. After investigating, the bank’s security team suspects an attack by a botnet originating in Eastern ...

With today's amendments to Rule 41, the statute that regulates legal search and seizure, the US Department of Justice has a new weapon to fight cyber crime — but it's a double-edged sword. The changes ...

A new government ruling that goes into effect Thursday will make it easier for law enforcement to hack into your computer. The controversial measure called Rule 41 is a change brought by the FBI ...

When the U.S. Supreme Court authorized changes to Rule 41 that would expand the government’s hacking authority, Senator Ron Wyden immediately indicated that he would try to block the ruling. Now, ...

If the FBI wants a warrant to gather digital evidence from a computer or smartphone, agents have long had to know exactly where that device is located. This rule, law enforcement officials have argued ...

Dark patterns and the dark web: FBI joins Rule 41 in setting troubling precedent New disclosures reveal that as part of a child porn takedown, the FBI levied surveillance onto some 8,000 IPs in 120 ...

If you're living in the U.S. or U.K., it just got a whole lot easier for the government to spy on you through your electronic devices, BuzzFeed reports. Let's start in America. As of Thursday, a new ...

Among the Judicial Conference Advisory Committees on Appellate, Bankruptcy, Civil, and Criminal Rules proposed amendments are changes to Criminal Rule 41. We already looked at one expert’s opinion ...

On December 1, 2016, amended Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure (FRCP) went into effect, thus expanding federal law enforcement’s power to search and seize electronic data. The new ...

A last-ditch effort in the Senate to prevent changes to a rule that will ease the process for law enforcement to use hacking in investigations failed Wednesday morning, allowing the controversial ...