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Secret Service probes university hackings
News A month ago, agents with the US Secret Service notified Arizona State University officials that some of their computers may have been compromised, said Lt John Sutton of the university's Department of Public Safety.
[June 21, 2002, 8:47]
US gov't leaks data through file sharing
News Sensitive files such as US Secret Service safehouse locations, military rosters and IRS tax returns can still be found on file-sharing networks, according to a report to a US House of Representatives committee on Wednesday.
[July 30, 2009, 15:53]
China accused of cyberattacks on New Zealand
News The New Zealand secret service has suggested the Chinese government was behind attacks on the country's networks. Warren Tucker, New Zealand's Security Intelligence Service director, hinted to the local newspaper The Dominion Post that the Chinese...
[September 13, 2007, 10:07]
iPods are security risk, warns analyst
Talkback It seems very foolish to me to use a closed source OS in the British secret service. One Article reads: the british secret service has just switched to the USB friendly OS windosXP.why? Well if Goverment agencies or Companies are concerned with...
[July 13, 2004, 15:21]
Identity theft ring affects at least 50 banks
News The operation, which is thought to be under investigation by the FBI and Secret Service, is currently gathering personal data from compromised machines and sending them to a server where they are saved in a file.
[August 8, 2005, 18:30]
Police arrest UK suspect in anti-ID theft operation
News The National High Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU), which was part of a joint operation with the US Secret Service and other law enforcement agencies, made the arrest on Wednesday. The arrest was part of an international crackdown on international identity...
[October 29, 2004, 15:14]
U.S. Vice presidential limousine and killed a pedestrian, police said no sp
Blog The accident occurred at 2:27 on the 11th, when the Secret Service two staff members were driving two devices equipped with bullet-proof SUV and luxury cars bound for Washington, DC. Two Secret Service officers immediately after the accident to get...
[November 16, 2009, 5:27]
Massive ID theft nabs 55,000 student records
News U.T.in conjunction with the US Attorney's Office, the US Secret Service and other law enforcement agencies, has focused its efforts since Sunday evening on identifying the perpetrator of the break-in and recapturing the stolen data," Updegrove...
[March 7, 2003, 13:03]
T-Mobile: We were hacked
News We immediately notified the United States Secret Service and asked it to investigate this incident and to find the hacker," T-Mobile said in the statement provided to ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com.
[January 13, 2005, 8:15]
Italian police nab NASA hackers
News The arrests are the culmination of several months of investigations, which began in October of last year and were initiated by the US Secret Service following the theft of sensitive files from US government and military sites.
[August 2, 2002, 15:45]
The real cost of the Coreflood botnet
News The Secret Service actually named Coreflood. In particular, Stewart recalled hearing that the US Secret Service had found evidence of Coreflood on the Lopez computer. Joe Lopez was the first online user to sue his financial institution for not...
[November 10, 2008, 9:51]
Debit card breach mystery deepens
News Wal-Mart also said it had reported the case to the US Attorney's Office and the Secret Service. The case is being investigated by the FBI and Secret Service, said FBI special agent John Cauthen, who works out of the bureau's Sacramento office.
[February 13, 2006, 8:50]
European Parliament urges open source protection against Echelon
News The report cites a string of stories from other former secret service employees. Another Canadian former secret service employee said he was expelled from the service because he had criticised the new emphasis on economic intelligence and civil...
[May 24, 2001, 20:20]
Italian hackers: Business or leisure?
News The arrests were the culmination of several months of investigations, which began in October of last year and were initiated by the US Secret Service following the theft of sensitive files from US government and military sites.
[August 5, 2002, 12:04]
Microsoft adds IP indemnity to Linux fight
Talkback Our obligations will not apply to the extent that the claim or adverse final judgment is based on (i) specifications you provide to us for the service deliverables; (ii) code or materials provided by you as part of service deliverables; (iii) your...
[November 10, 2004, 9:13]
FBI rapped over missing laptops
News The Justice Department's inspector general said Monday that law enforcement groups including the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the US Marshals Service suffer from "a lack of accountability," with at least 400 laptop computers...
[August 7, 2002, 9:53]
Major online credit card theft exposed
News Jim Macken, a secret service spokesman, confirmed that the incident had occurred and added some details in an interview on Thursday. Secret service officials testified about some details of the case before Congress early last year to demonstrate...
[March 17, 2000, 12:37]
Obama, McCain campaign PCs compromised
News Newsweek reports that "the next day, both the FBI and the Secret Service came to the campaign with an ominous warning: 'You have a problem way bigger than what you understand,' an agent told them. Last summer, Barack Obama's presidential-campaign...
[November 6, 2008, 9:19]
Microsoft creates $5m virus-hunting fund
News Microsoft executives were joined by representatives from the FBI, the Secret Service and Interpol at a press conference on Wednesday that announced the new fund. People with information can report it to law enforcement online to Interpol, to the...
[November 5, 2003, 15:05]
Former spy says policy essential to good security
News Rimington, who was a keynote speaker at the Gartner Security Conference in London on Monday, said companies should use the same principles that the secret service does in order to ensure trade secrets do not fall into the wrong hands.
[September 16, 2003, 16:45]
