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FBI leads cyber-vandal hunt
News The FBI has launched a full-scale criminal investigation to apprehend the vandals who crippled at least eight Web sites in a series of cyber attacks over the last three days. Reno, who declared that "preventing cybercrime is one of our top...
[February 10, 2000, 8:57]
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 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 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 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 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]
FBI looking into questionable credit card charges
News Mysterious charges to the credit card accounts of dozens of online shoppers may be linked to the online theft of more than 55,000 credit card numbers last week, an FBI official said Thursday. The FBI is aware of the complaints and is looking into...
[December 22, 2000, 8:35]
US Report: FBI won't post Sinatra files
News FBI Freedom of Information public information officer Linda Kloss declined to explain the reasons behind the decision not to post the Sinatra files, which date back to a 1938 mug shot and allegedly link the legendary singer with the Mafia, on the...
[December 9, 1998, 9:55]
FBI scrutinises e-voting hack
News Local and federal authorities including the FBI are investigating an intrusion into a computer network at an e-voting software company, which suspects the hack was politically motivated. The company identified a suspect and said it turned the case...
[December 31, 2003, 8:05]
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 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 proposes international biometrics database
News UK police are in talks with the FBI about establishing an international biometric database for tracking down the world's most wanted criminals and terrorists. The FBI suggested the database at a meeting of five countries — Australia, Canada, New...
[January 16, 2008, 7:31]
FBI: Microsoft IIS most vulnerable
News The prestigious SANS Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, working with the FBI, has developed a top 20 list of common vulnerabilities that leave Internet sites open to attacks. What Paller and the FBI found is that some problems are more widespread...
[November 8, 2001, 9:40]
FBI helps China crack software-counterfeiting ring
News China's Public Security Bureau, acting with the FBI, have made a number of raids and arrests in the past couple of weeks with the aim of cracking an alleged software-counterfeiting ring. The Public Security Bureau (PSB), acting with the FBI in Los...
[July 24, 2007, 14:04]
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Downloads FBI News Reader grabs the top stories from the FBI(Federal Bureau of Investigation) and delivers them to your iPhone or iTouch. The news feeds covers top ten fugitives, most wanted terrorists, wanted for cyber crimes, wanted for crimes against...
[September 19, 2009, 7:33]
FBI announces botnet milestone
News The US Department of Justice and the FBI have identified over a million compromised IP addresses which are being used for cybercrime. The FBI claims that botnets are a "growing threat to national security, the national information infrastructure...
[June 14, 2007, 11:13]
FBI seizes media network servers
News She added that the group thinks the issue might be related to recent requests by the FBI asking that the site remove photos posted by IMC's Nantes affiliate, purportedly depicting Swiss undercover police.
[October 11, 2004, 9:00]
FBI uses hacking technology for surveillance
News It seems like the FBI is just trying to see if they can come up with different options and ways that electronic surveillance can be done. On Tuesday, MSNBC reported that the FBI was working on a computer "virus" to install key-logging programs and...
[November 22, 2001, 10:50]
FBI wants to tap high-speed Internet
News A far-reaching proposal from the FBI, made public on Friday, would require all US broadband Internet providers, including cable modem and DSL companies, to rewire their networks to support easy wiretapping by police.
[March 15, 2004, 9:10]
FBI network security slammed
Blog The FBI has been given a dressing down by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) over its network security. In a report entitled "FBI Needs to Address Weaknesses in Critical Network", the GAO said that the FBI was not doing enough to guard...
[May 25, 2007, 15:58]
