SF News As An FBI Agent's Stolen Gun Is Retrieved, Three More Are Snatched From Car Parked Near Japantown What do you want first, the good news or the bad news? The good news is that a gun stolen from the parked car of an FBI agent was recovered Tuesday. The bad
SF News Slain SF Mom Was Buried Beneath Board Covered In 'Odd Spray-Painted Markings' It's been over two weeks since the body of a San Francisco mom was discovered in an area park, and a search began for her missing toddler. But though police have
SF News Feds May Have Paid iPhone Hackers More Than $1.3 Million How much did the FBI pay the "gray hat" hacker or hackers who successfully unlocked the iPhone related to the San Bernardino terrorism case? “A lot,” FBI chief James B. Comey
SF News Feds Paid 'Gray Hat' Hackers, Not Israeli Firm, To Crack That iPhone Contrary to earlier reports that Israeli mobile forensics firm Cellebrite had been the ones paid by the FBI to crack the iPhone left behind in the San Bernardino terrorism case, the successful hacking
SF News Feds Tell Local Police They're Happy To Help Unlock iPhones Well that didn't take long. Despite claiming for weeks that its efforts to break the encryption on San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook's work iPhone 5C was only about that
SF News Feds Successfully Hack San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone, Drop Court Case Against Apple The federal government announced today that it has successfully accessed the data on San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook's work iPhone 5C, and as such will drop its case demanding Apple build
SF News FBI Hires Israeli Firm Cellebrite To Unlock San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone Though it's probably not news to the hacker world, the rest of the world is learning that the feds may not have ever really needed Apple's help to unlock
SF News Feds Can Likely Unlock iPhone Without Apple's Help, Postpone Tomorrow's Hearing Well this certainly is interesting. According to Nate Cardozo, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the government moved to vacate tomorrow's scheduled hearing in the ongoing Apple versus the
SF News Key Apple Engineers Suggest They'll Quit If Feds Force Them To Unlock iPhone The FBI may face a new hurdle in their eager attempt to get around Apple's encryption technology and unlock the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino terrorists, and that would
SF News Judge Says 'Nope' To Gag Order In City Hall Corruption Case A five-year undercover FBI probe into corruption at City Hall heretofore shrouded in secrecy may no longer be kept so quiet. While the work of the District Attorney's office and
SF News Apple Doesn't Need To Unlock Phones For Government, Says Federal Judge The most prominent case regarding a government order for Apple, Inc. is the one you've no doubt been following: The one in which the FBI is compelling the company to unlock
SF News Second Pro-Apple Rally Planned For Tonight In Downtown SF Growing group of folks at the SF Apple Store. Showing support of Apple's decision to protect encryption for users. pic.twitter.com/UKIwf5qYPK — Doctor Popular (@DocPop) February 18, 2016 Less than
SF News Rally Supporting Apple's Decision To Fight FBI iPhone Hacking Request Planned For Tonight A group supporting Apple's decision to fight a FBI demand that the company create a custom operating system allowing the government agency access to data on an otherwise locked iPhone plans
SF News DA Teams Up With FBI On Secretive Political Corruption Task Force Remember how an FBI agent posed undercover as an Atlanta businessman and met with former San Francisco Human Rights Commission staffer Zula Jones and ex-Human Rights Commissioner Nazly Mohajer, who promised him
SF News Ryan Chamberlain Pleads Guilty To Deadly Toxin Charge, May Get 10 Years Former SF political consultant and accused potential domestic terrorist Ryan Chamberlain has, as was expected last week, taken a plea deal in a case dating back to the spring of 2014 in which
SF News As Trial Was Set To Begin, Alleged Potential Domestic Terrorist Ryan Chamberlain May Take Plea Deal In the spring of 2014, former local political consultant and onetime Gavin Newsom campaigner Ryan Chamberlain appeared to have spiraled into some kind of psychological abyss. Some forays into the deep web led
SF News Thefts Of BART Cop Uniform, Gear Just Put Our Super Bowl Paranoia Into The Red Zone The FBI has certainly put us on high Super Bowl alert, with warnings of terrorists risks including the actions of "self-radicalized individuals" and "attacks on soft targets like subways.
SF News [Update] Three Local Politicos, Including Keith Jackson, Indicted On Corruption Charges The District Attorney's Office made it known this morning that DA George Gascón would hold a 1:30 p.m. press conference today to announce corruption charges against an as-of-
SF News Shrimp Boy's Defense Attorney Tony Serra Wants To Get Mayor Lee On Witness Stand What's sure to be the colorful trial of Raymond 'Shrimp Boy' Chow kicked off Monday with opening arguments, and already there is talk of mafia-style hits and steak
SF News Man Accused Of Using Twitter To Manipulate Stock Prices A Scottish man is in trouble today, having been indicted yesterday by a San Francisco jury on charges of using Twitter to manipulate stock prices. Two companies were targeted in the 2013 scheme,
SF News As Racketeering Case Gains Murder Charge, Shrimp Boy Still Asserts Innocence It was 2006 when the Chron gracefully danced around Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow's role in the death of Chinese community leader Allen Leung. Nearly a decade later, what many
SF News FBI Shames Jowls Of SF Bank Robber I've written about a lot of bank heists over the years, and if I had one piece of advice for aspiring robbers, it's this: Make sure there is absolutely
SF News Outer Sunset Photographer Busted For Child Porn, Tourist-Area Upskirts The San Francisco Police Department is asking anyone who might have had contact with an Outer Sunset photographer to come forward after they say they discovered thousands of images and videos depicting children
SF News Veteran SFPD Officer Goes Down For Accepting Bribes From Taxi Drivers A 36-year veteran of the San Francisco Police Department could go to jail for as long as five years, after a jury agreed that he'd pulled in at least $25,
SF News Feds Bust Pot Smuggling Ring Involving Oakland Airport Baggage Handlers A trio of baggage handlers at Oakland Airport have been charged with conspiracy to distribute, and possession with intent to distribute, 100 kilograms or more of marijuana. As the AP reports, the three
