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FBI Cut Off For Unpaid Wiretap Bills
Blog For those clandestine surveillance operations, remember to pay your telephone and email providers promptly, or you may have your wiretaps cut off like the FBI. The BBC reports that a US government audit conducted by the justice department's...
[January 11, 2008, 16:12]
FBI Tracks Worm Writers
News The FBI is "confident" that it will capture those who are responsible for creating and spreading the MSBlast worm and the Sobig.F virus, the bureau said on Tuesday. We are working with the Department of Homeland Security and with state and local...
[August 27, 2003, 8:35]
FBI Most Wanted: A Computer Worm?
News A largely unsuccessful computer worm has garnered national attention in the States after an FBI agency posted a warning of the malicious code on its pages over the weekend. On Saturday, the National Infrastructure Protection Center -- a joint...
[April 4, 2000, 9:20]
FBI Closes In On MSBlast Suspect
News The US Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington reported that US Attorney John McKay and representatives from the FBI would detail progress made in their investigation regarding the MSBlast computer virus at 1:30 p.m.
[August 29, 2003, 11:25]
FBI Nabs Russian Expert At DefCon
News The FBI took a Russian encryption expert into custody Monday at his hotel in Las Vegas for allegedly publishing software that cracks a variety of methods used to secure e-books. Borst, a spokesman for the FBI's Las Vegas office.
[July 18, 2001, 9:41]
FBI Aims To Patch Security Holes
News The FBI and a prestigious computer-security research group are set to announce new initiatives to keep companies up to date on the most threatening software vulnerabilities. The FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center and the SysAdmin...
[October 1, 2002, 13:23]
FBI Urges Greater Co-operation From US Tech Firms
News Technology companies should work more closely with the FBI to defend against electronic intrusions, a liaison to the FBI's InfraGard program said Thursday. Phyllis Schneck, the co-chairman of the InfraGard executive board, said that if an online...
[September 6, 2002, 9:48]
FBI Accused Over Code Red Virus Confusion
News The Metropolitan Police has criticised the FBI for issuing confused messages about the Code Red worm, which led home PC owners to believe that their computers could be infected by a self-propagating worm that only attacks Internet servers.
[August 1, 2001, 11:43]
FBI Agent: I Am Big Brother
News There are reasons law enforcement should and does have the power to arrest and to search," said Paul George, supervisory special agent for the Michigan bureau of the FBI. Likewise, wiretaps are expected to rise, more than 300 percent in the next 10...
[April 6, 2000, 9:37]
FBI: Cybercrime Will Be The Next Enron
News One of the FBI's leading agents in the field of computer crime has warned that industrial espionage and targeted data theft are on the increase. Shena Crowe, InfraGuard co-ordinator for the FBI in the technology heartland of San Francisco, said...
[July 21, 2006, 16:55]
FBI Dumps Carnivore - But In Name Only
News The FBI has dressed its online wolf in sheep's clothing, changing the name of its controversial email surveillance system -- known up until now as Carnivore. The investigative agency built the tool to monitor the Internet communications of suspects...
[February 12, 2001, 9:01]
FBI Nets Scottish Web Paedophile
News A Scottish university lecturer faces a 15-year jail sentence after an FBI sting operation caught him travelling to America to have sex with a boy he met over the Internet. Steinheimer had responded to an Internet advertisement placed by the FBI...
[March 12, 2001, 11:19]
FBI 'hack' Could Set Dangerous Precedent
News A sting operation in which FBI agents downloaded data from two Russian-based computers has some high-tech lawyers concerned that the precedent may be used to justify indiscriminate, cross-border hacking.
[May 2, 2001, 8:17]
FBI Uses Covert Email Surveillance System
News America's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is using a super-fast email scanning system dubbed "Carnivore" to covertly trawl through email messages in order to capture suspected criminals, reports the Wall Street Journal Tuesday.
[July 12, 2000, 10:23]
FBI To Prioritise Cybercrime Fight
News The director of the FBI announced on Wednesday that a major reorganisation of the agency would include a new focus on cybercrime and technology. Protecting the United States against "cyber-based attacks and high-technology crimes" is one of the FBI...
[May 30, 2002, 14:18]
FBI In Panic Over 'new' Hacking Tool
News The Internet crime division of the FBI issued a vaguely-worded warning last week about an alarming new tool soon to be available to computer criminals. All that certainly sounds serious enough to interest the National Infrastructure Protection...
[March 19, 2001, 8:58]
FBI Unplugs Candidate Copycat Site
News The FBI Friday shut down a Web site collecting political contributions for US presidential candidate Senator John McCain hours after ZDNet partner MSNBC began making inquires into its legal status. The campaign then contacted the FBI.
[February 21, 2000, 9:34]
Judge: FBI Must Cough Up Carnivore Info
News Privacy advocates have won another round in their fight to gain access to more information about the FBI's Carnivore email surveillance system. A federal judge this week ordered the FBI to expand its search for records about Carnivore, also known...
[March 28, 2002, 9:24]
FBI Nabs Russian Hackers
News Schroeder said much of the information in the advisory came from details revealed by the FBI and the Department of Justice during their investigation of Ivanov and Gorshkov. International crime spree The duo's alleged exploits largely match the...
[April 24, 2001, 8:11]
FBI To Hunt Internet Pirates
News HR-2517, the Piracy Deterrence and Education Act of 2003, instructs the FBI to develop a programme to deter online trafficking of copyrighted material. The bureau would also develop a warning, with the FBI seal, that copyright holders could issue...
[June 23, 2003, 10:45]
