In a weird turn of events the most common Internet crime complaints in 2011 were those involving scams that involved fraudsters pretending to be the FBI according to the yearly online crime report issued through the FBI's partner, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) and the National White Collar...
It's pretty clear the penalties for pointing a laser at an aircraft, which can cause temporary blindness or make airliner pilots take evasive measures to avoid the laser light just are not stiff enough to deter the knuckleheads who insist on pulling the stunt.
Technology has allowed the FBI to better fight all manner of crime but it has also enabled cybercriminals and others to rapidly morph and change tactics that can be difficult to keep up with.
This one has all the makings of bad spy novel. The FBI said two Taiwanese nationals have been charged for allegedly seeking to export sensitive US military technology to China after federal agents, who were investigating a counterfeit goods smuggling case, uncovered plots to smuggle drugs...
The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center's (IC3) warns of a rise in what it calls "new twists to previously-existing cyber scams." The warnings center on investment and advertising scams as well as a release of exploit software as the latest trends in trying to separate you from your money or...
From deep in the Department of Creepy today I give this item: The FBI this week put out a call for new research "to advance the science and practice of intelligence interviewing and interrogation."
The FBI today placed Eric Justin Toth, a former private-school teacher and computer expert who is believed to regularly use the Internet and social networking websites on its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List.
The Department of Justice said today a federal jury convicted a man on seven counts of wire fraud for offering a device that let his customers steal Internet services.Through is company known as TCNiSO, the DoJ said Ryan Harris developed and distributed hardware and software tools that let his customers...
The FBI today released a background check it did on Apple's founder Steve Jobs founder when he was being considered for a position on George H.W. Bush to the President's Export Council in 1991.
The US Department of Justice today said it charged seven people and two corporations with running what it called an international organized criminal enterprise allegedly responsible for massive worldwide online piracy of numerous types of copyrighted works.The DoJ stated that through the company known...
Recruiting and retaining important IT staff -- particularly in the burgeoning security arena -- is a challenge for every organization and one that is only going to tougher.
In its second annual Cyber Monday bust-fest, US law enforcement today said it seized 150 domain names from commercial websites it said engaged in the sale and distribution of counterfeit goods and copyrighted works.The 150 seized domains are now custody of the federal government and site visitors will...
US law enforcement today said it had smashed what it called a massive, sophisticated Internet fraud scheme that injected malware in more than four million computers in over 100 countries while generating $14 million in illegitimate income. Of the computers infected with malware, at least 500,000...
A space scientist with a PhD in Planetary Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who once worked for NASA, the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense, and the White House's National Space Council, pleaded guilty today to attempted espionage for offering classified satellite...
The FBI said today it had arrested three mall cell phone kiosk workers for buying stolen iPhones and other Apple products and selling them for profit.The FBI said the arrests were based on an investigation of a large number of mobile devices stolen from riders of the region's mass transportation system,...
The US Marshals today said the online auction of the personal effects of Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, raised $232,246 which will be divvied up among to Kaczynski's victims.
Putting a finishing punch on what was a nasty online retribution attack, a federal court in New Jersey has sentenced a former programmer to two years in prison, plus three years of supervised release for building a botnet-based virus that infected about 100,000 PCs and attacked a number of media outlets...
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