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| The FBI Negotiates for European Private Data Access |  | The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the European Commission are close to coming to a conclusion in an agreement that would allow the American organization to access private EU citizen data such as credit card history and frequently visited web pages. Privacy organizations are strongly contesting this agreement and say they will sue the EU Commission.
Privacy International's director, ... [read more >>] | | 01 July 2008, 07:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New Phishing Scams Available on the Web |  | Hackers and phishers don't rest until they devise a new scheme, by which they can force honest web users into giving them their personal information. A number of phishing schemes have recently been reported that appear to use a scenario based on recent worldwide events. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has recently warned the general public about a new scheme by which scammers intended to take the users' IRS fund che ... [read more >>] | | 13 May 2008, 07:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| FBI's Own Offices "Infected" with Counterfeit Cisco Hardware |  | The United States government is reportedly using no less than 3500 fake Cisco-branded network devices, including routers, network switches and hubs. According to the investigation results, the fake devices are worth up to $3.5 million.
The FBI has been keeping an eye on the China imports of networking gear for some time now, as part of a large criminal probe, code-named Operation Cisco Raider. The counterfeit network gear is ... [read more >>] | | 12 May 2008, 04:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| FBI to Snag Criminals in the Internet Backbone |  | During the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives meeting held on Wednesday, the US Federal Bureau of Investigations has offered a sneak preview of its upcoming actions to fight crime in the cyberspace.
During the meeting, the US congressman Darrell Issa tackled the topic of online crimes and of how the FBI could protect civilians, government agencies and military structures from malicious Internet users. More th ... [read more >>] | | 25 April 2008, 06:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Marilyn Monroe Sex Tape Real |  | In what could very well be the most shocking discovery of the year, it has just been revealed that a Marilyn Monroe sex tape recently hit the upper echelons of the memorabilia market. The NY Post, which broke the exclusive story, reveals that the 15-minute film footage reportedly depicting Marilyn performing oral sex on an unknown man has just been sold to the highest bidder, an unidentified New York businessman. The long-buried ... [read more >>] | | 14 April 2008, 09:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| FBI Violates Online Privacy for Fourth Year in a Row |  | "Did you do it?"
"No!"
"FBI, we have the documentation right here!"
"Oh, all right, I might have…"
That’s the short version of the announcement the Federal Bureau of Investigation made today, paving the way for the audit to be issued on the 9th of March this year. The abuse allegedly was a result of investigations aimed at tracking terrorists and spies in 2006.
There’s no telling how the nex ... [read more >>] | | 06 March 2008, 06:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Sophisticated Child Pornography Ring Stopped |  | The FBI and international authorities have put an end to one of the most sophisticated global child pornography rings encountered in the past years, but managed to do so only after the network managed to distribute more than 400,000 pictures and videos of children engaged in sexual activities.
The charges brought against them were of engaging in a child exploitation enterprise, advertisement of child pornography, transportatio ... [read more >>] | | 05 March 2008, 16:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Former FBI Agent Proposes Second Internet |  | In an article addressing Internet security in general and cyber crime and criminals in particular, Patrick J. Dempsey, Chief Information Security Officer for Janney Montgomery Scott, and former FBI agent, had an interesting and yet disturbing solution to the problem. He proposed creating a second Internet, one for which users should be required to register in order to be able to use.
"[…] Knowing all the possibilities with disguisi ... [read more >>] | | 28 February 2008, 16:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| FBI Monitored a Network Worth of Email Instead of Just One |  | Following the procedure (probably), the Federal Bureau of Investigation went to a secret intelligence court judge and got approval for surveying an email address of a suspect in an investigation going on at the time. Again according to protocol they went with the court decision to the Internet Service Provider, that served as host for the respective address, and access was granted. To all available, not just the one.
Some might call it ... [read more >>] | | 19 February 2008, 13:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Latest Online Scam: Puppies |  | A canine companion is something many people wanted for as long as they can remember, but because of parenting issues or space restrictions were never able to acquire one. The market being incredibly open because of the Internet options that have been added progressively, it was the perfect means for Mary Ann Alfaro to fulfill her daughter’s wish and surprise her fiancé with an English bulldog.
For $800 it looked like a bargain, so she i ... [read more >>] | | 14 February 2008, 15:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Five Californian Phishers Investigated by the FBI |  | Phishing has made new victims, so the authorities are now struggling to find the ones responsible for the damages which appear to be up to $400,000. Xinhua today reports that 5 Californian men are now investigated by the FBI, because they are suspected for being important parts in large phishing schemes, conducted ... [read more >>] | | 13 December 2007, 08:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AKILL's Home Raided By The FBI |  | The FBI started a powerful anti-botnet campaign and is willing to do anything possible in order to identify the attackers and prosecute them. Codenamed Operating 'Bot Roast', the case has already indicted 8 individuals in the United States, who where identified as potential botmasters. But, what's more important is that the FBI allies with the authorities outside the US in order to fight against the phenomenon and ... [read more >>] | | 30 November 2007, 05:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| FBI Knocking On Cyber Criminals' Door |  | Operation 'Bot Roast' is a campaign launched by the FBI and it is meant to stop the cyber criminals and, especially, the botnet owners, who attempt to control numerous computers from all over the world and launch web attacks. According to the FBI officials, since June when the campaign has started, no less than 8 individuals have been identified and some of them have even been sent to prison after they pleaded guilty. A ... [read more >>] | | 30 November 2007, 03:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Pedophile Requesting Porn to Undercover FBI Agent |  | Fred Donald Manning, a 58-year-old man living in Spanaway, Washington, was investigated by the FBI after he was suspected of pedophilia and distribution of child porn on the web. Today, he pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to Shipment of Child Pornography according to a report published on the official website of the FBI. According to the same website, the man tried to obtain child porn from an undercover FBI agent ... [read more >>] | | 29 November 2007, 10:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| “Silenz” Nabbed by the Feds |  | Greg King, 21, of Fairfield California, also known as Silenz, Silenz420, sZ, GregK and Gregk707 is a hacker that has been recently netted by the American authorities after an intensive investigation by the FBI.
This guy was a botnet herder or bot master, or whatever you wish to call him – he’s the type of hacker that creates and manages a botnet. Not only is creating such networks illegal, but using them for distributed denial ... [read more >>] | | 03 October 2007, 06:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IT Experts Give False Security Certification |  | The US Department of Homeland Security has been tricked into thinking they were secure, when they actually weren’t. Data breaches occurred and Unisys – the company that was supposed to protect the DHS – did absolutely nothing, and even worse, said everything was OK. This is a major screw up – Unisys holds a $1.7 billion contract with the DHS and failed to do what they were supposed to. If this is right, then I don’t know what the ... [read more >>] | | 25 September 2007, 03:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Software Replaced |  | I had no idea that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was using Microsoft Access, but it seems that they were, and now they want to replace it with Java Enterprise Edition. In case you were wondering, the FBI doesn’t use Access like the rest of us do; they use it to track NSL cases. NSL is short for National Security Letter - click ... [read more >>] | | 21 September 2007, 10:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| CAN-SPAM Really Good For Something! |  | The CAN-SPAM act has been around since 2003 and even though a lot of people have said that it should be harsher, the FBI says that it has been great for them. With this law helping them, they have nabbed a lot of bad-guys. It’s really aiding them in the fight against spam and cyber-crooks that use it (spam) to scam people.
For those of you that have never heard of CAN-SPAM, well, it’s an act issued 4 years ago, and the acronym ... [read more >>] | | 12 September 2007, 05:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Wiretap Fed Style! |  | The Federal Bureau of Information has been wiretapping since…forever, but only recently have there been some scandals of them violating privacy and stuff like that. Some security experts have even stated that their huge data-bases of wiretapped info could represent a vulnerability for the US, should anyone hack them. Why is that? Because they intercept everyone’s conversations! In any case, here's how they do it!
They hav ... [read more >>] | | 30 August 2007, 03:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| FBI Pounding On Cyber-Crime |  | The Federal Bureau of Information has a growing interest in cyber-crime, and this does not surprise me at all, since the US has been the first to show a greater concern with cyber-security. What can I say? This is great, because knowing the Feds could be on their tracks, I guess that hackers will be somewhat discouraged. The FBI has recently put Saad Echouafani on their "Most Wanted" list.
He did not commit any crime ... [read more >>] | | 28 August 2007, 05:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| CIA and FBI Go Online to Edit Wikipedia |  | WikiScanner, an advanced software solution, revealed that several CIA and FBI computers were connected to the open-source encyclopedia Wikipedia and edited some of the articles. Although the representatives of the two bureaus refuse to confirm it, the program created by Virgil Griffith of the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico shows that CIA and FBI modified several articles such as the Iraq conflict and the Guantanamo prison. Acco ... [read more >>] | | 17 August 2007, 02:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| FBI Fights Against Terrorists with Computer Viruses |  | The FBI federal agents decided to install a spyware file on the computer owned by a MySpace registered member in order to find private information and arrest him for bomb threats concerning a high school in Olympia, Wash, ZDNet reports. According to the same source, the FBI required the court approval that agreed to send the CIPAV spyware on user's computer to steal his information. Basically, the officials intended to obtai ... [read more >>] | | 19 July 2007, 10:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The FBI Gets Involved into Hacking Activities |  | It's been a while since the FBI debuted Operation Bot Roast, a national initiative meant to gather valuable information about the hacking activities. Today, the Department of Justice and the FBI published the results of the investigations, saying that over 1 million of computers were involved in hacking attempts. Moreover, it seems like most of the computer owners involved in them didn't know that their system was explo ... [read more >>] | | 14 June 2007, 14:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Thompson Emailes the FBI to Prosecute Kotaku |  | Ever had one of those days when everyone around you is telling good jokes and you have a dozen laughs that make your jaws and belly ake? Well, a day like that can get even better if you by any chance stumble upon Jack Thompson's comments in regards to violence in video games and how th ... [read more >>] | | 24 April 2007, 05:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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