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Thanksgiving will bring a Sober hangover
News Sober-Y spreads in emails that pretend to come from the FBI or which claim to contain video clips of celebrity heiress Paris Hilton. The latest outbreak of the Sober worm will accelerate as US computer users turns the PCs back on after the...
[November 25, 2005, 16:25]
Zimmerman joins UK think tank
News When he released the first version of PGP in 1991, Zimmermann faced a three-year FBI investigation. One of the founding fathers of modern cryptography, Phil Zimmermann -- who created PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) and thus introduced a generation of...
[September 16, 2002, 10:31]
Privacy activists blast Echelon
News The advert placed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is designed to raise public awareness of Echelon, as well as the FBI Internet wiretap system called Carnivore, with the aim of forcing the US government to protect individuals' rights...
[April 12, 2001, 14:44]
PGP creator Zimmerman joins Hush
News When he released the first version of PGP in 1991, Zimmermann faced a three-year FBI investigation. One of the founding fathers of modern cryptography, Phil Zimmermann -- who created PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) and thus introduced a generation of...
[February 20, 2001, 10:30]
RealNetworks cries foul over Microsoft antitrust case
Talkback Stuart, my advice to you is to carry on using windows media player as you can continue to be tracked by microsoft (and their buddies in the FBI) downloading porn every day and night! Stuart S James is a complete and utter idiot!
[April 6, 2005, 4:07]
UK failing to fight spam
Talkback That would be outrageous as it's only OK for the FBI to police the world and come to the UK to arrest people. I didn't realise the UK was a problem? It is commonly known that as much as 70% of all spam originates in the US.
[August 12, 2005, 13:36]
Internet sparks international adoption row
News The original adoptive parents say the British parents have no legal right to the children and have called in the FBI to help with their investigation. An international controversy has blown up over the adoption of two six-month-old twin girls, who...
[January 16, 2001, 11:49]
Man arrested for tsunami email scam
News The FBI was alerted after Mercy Corps (the aid organisation Schmieder is alleged to have posed as) received complaints about the emails. A man has been released on bail after being charged with stealing donations for tsunami relief.
[January 18, 2005, 12:25]
The hunt for Melissa leads to 'ex' virus writer
News Sibert has not yet been contacted by the FBI, but said he would cooperate with them fully if they did get in touch. Roger Sibert, the systems administrator for Source of Kaos, a site frequented by virus enthusiasts, said that site log files showed...
[March 30, 1999, 9:17]
Data thieves strike university
News Both the Georgia Bureau of Investigations -- an independent resource for the state's law enforcement personnel -- and the FBI have started investigating the matter, he said. Online intruders broke into a server containing the credit card numbers of...
[April 1, 2003, 7:31]
Crypto compromise a lawyers' delight
News They've been unwilling to simply deregulate, I think because of pressure from the NSA and the FBI who are unwilling to give up the ghost. Even as industry celebrated the Clinton Administration's new, more liberal rules on export of encryption...
[January 14, 2000, 11:35]
Survey: Security measures pay off
News The report, conducted in cooperation with the FBI, also said respondents thought denial-of-service attacks outpaced intellectual property theft as the most costly type of information threat. Companies working to harden their security have found...
[June 11, 2004, 12:35]
DVD encryption break is a good thing
News The NSA and the FBI don't care about DVD encryption. There are now freeware programs on the Internet that remove the copy protection on DVDs, allowing them to be played, edited, and copied without restriction.
[November 12, 1999, 9:52]
Russia gets ready to gag online dissent
News Last month, US Justice Department and FBI officials announced new guidelines that would allow agents to mine publicly available databases and Web sites for information, even if they're not conducting a specific investigation.
[June 25, 2002, 9:29]
Anti-spam firms hit back at Gartner claims
News Spammers know the FBI know who they are, but they just don't care. Anti-spam vendors were speculating on Tuesday about analyst firm Gartner's claims that the level of spam on the network is falling. Gartner later added it was talking about the...
[September 21, 2004, 16:00]
Executive faces jail after admitting IP theft
News O'Neil, 43, is the third former executive of the San Francisco company to admit guilt in a case that the FBI's computer intrusion squad helped to investigate in 2002. A former software executive's guilty plea to charges of breaking into a rival's...
[December 12, 2005, 14:50]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog In an hallucinatory haze brought about by some delicious, yet tainted crabmeat, I dream the FBI and a group of encryption experts were meeting to talk about the never-ending conflict between the U.S. Thus I didn't actually do anything computer...
[June 6, 1998, 8:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News In an hallucinatory haze brought about by some delicious, yet tainted crabmeat, I dream the FBI and a group of encryption experts were meeting to talk about the never-ending conflict between the U.S. Thus I didn't actually do anything computer...
[June 6, 1998, 7:03]
Expert calls for Pan-European cybercrime response
Blog It's much easier for the Met to let the FBI do the heavy lifting. Europe needs a unified response to tackle cybercrime, according to computer security expert Ross Anderson. Professor Anderson, who heads security engineering research at the...
[January 6, 2010, 16:32]
Police arrest phishing mob suspect
News The Herald reported that the FBI is investigating Schwarmkoff in New Jersey. A suspected Russian gangster and phisherman, caught red-handed with $200,000 worth of stolen goods and $15,000 cash, has been charged in the US on several counts of...
[November 11, 2004, 11:22]
