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Children's toy can jam FBI radios, researchers say

...Expensive high-tech digital radios used by the FBI, the US secret service and Homeland Security are designed so poorly they can be jammed... Read more

10 August, 2011 by Declan McCullagh

Report finds 'dumbing down' of hack attacks

...Verizon from 2004 to 2009, according to figures supplied by the US Secret Service and Verizon. However, the report also claimed that the total number... Read more

19 April, 2011 by Darren Pauli

Alleged credit card criminal arrested in France

...the most sophisticated organisations of online financial criminals in the world," US Secret Service assistant director for investigations Michael Merritt said in the statement. "This... Read more

12 August, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Microsoft opens source code to Russian secret service

Microsoft's decision to give the Russian intelligence services access to products including Windows 7 was commercial, according to a Whitehall source Read more

8 July, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Russian secret service 'concerned' by Gmail use

...Gmail could pose a security threat to Russia, according to a Russian secret service official. Speaking on Friday, Alexander Andreyechkin, the head of Russia's... Read more

9 April, 2011
In the President's <endeca_term>Secret Service</endeca_term>: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect by Ronald Kessler 3.0.2

In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect by Ronald Kessler 3.0.2

In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and... Read more

20 March, 2011
2010 Data Breach Investigations Report

2010 Data Breach Investigations Report

2010 report with new findings from Verizon and the US Secret Service in this joint study and analysis of over 900 data breaches... Read more

1 September, 2010
US cyber-tsar: Tackle jailbroken iPhones

US cyber-tsar: Tackle jailbroken iPhones

...from the [FBI] director talking about the FBI's effort with the Secret Service to share information very proactively, and actionable information with the private... Read more

24 March, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Hacker tries to blackmail Marriott for a job

...emails. He was caught in a sting operation in which the US Secret Service created a fake employee persona on the Marriott system to communicate... Read more

6 February, 2012

A Knights fail: Why Jony Ive isnâ??t the most deserving person in the...

...following a call from cell to cell is still the stuff of secret service departments and organised crime. It’s a very long way from... Read more

2 January, 2012

Hackers team up to launch Operation Robin Hood

...people there [sic] money back". "We are not afraid of the Police, Secret Service, or the FBI," the group said. "We are going to show... Read more

1 December, 2011

EDF Greenpeace hack leads to £1.3m fine and jail

...Greenpeace. Kargus Consultants head Thierry Lorho, a former member of the French secret service, was sentenced to three years in prison, with two years suspended... Read more

11 November, 2011 by Tom Espiner

UK helps Australia's cyber-spy unit get to work

...The UK is helping Australia's secret service to set up a special unit dedicated to fighting online threats... Read more

11 March, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Nasdaq exchange's computers hit by hackers

...apparently, so far — not taking or tampering with anything." The US Secret Service and FBI are investigating the event. At the time of writing... Read more

5 February, 2011

FBI goes after Anonymous suspects

...spokeswoman told ZDNet UK. The other participants were: the FBI; the US Secret Service; and the national criminal police departments of the Netherlands — Korps landelijke... Read more

28 January, 2011 by Tom Espiner

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