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Leak of Unreleased Guns n' Roses Tracks Leads to Arrest

A blogger has been arrested by the FBI because he was hosting, on his personal webpage, nine songs from the Guns n' Roses yet to be released “Chinese Democracy” album. In fact, the tracks were uploaded in June and they were removed that same month, both because of several server failures, caused by t...

28 August 2008
03:32 GMT

Conspirator in the Shadow Botnet Case Charged

We previously reported on the arrest of a teenage Dutch, who had created the Shadow botnet. The Dutch High Tech Crime Unit and the FBI worked together to solve the case of the malicious network, which is reported to be responsible for the infection of over 100,000 machines. The Brazilian conspirator in the Shadow bot...

22 August 2008
03:19 GMT

"FBI vs. Facebook" Storm Worm Makes Computers Go Mad

FBI warns users not to open any emails that are headed by the "FBI vs. Facebook" subject. They do not contain any information regarding a lawsuit, an investigation, or other activity that the two parts could be involved in. Clicking on the eye-catching titled emails will result in users being infected with a storm wo...

4 August 2008
05:56 GMT

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 a...

1 July 2008
07:11 GMT

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 re...

13 May 2008
07:12 GMT

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 t...

12 May 2008
04:55 GMT

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 ...

25 April 2008
06:12 GMT

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...

14 April 2008
09:41 GMT

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 a...

6 March 2008
06:37 GMT

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 agai...

5 March 2008
16:06 GMT

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 wh...

28 February 2008
16:06 GMT

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 ...

19 February 2008
13:56 GMT

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 t...

14 February 2008
15:11 GMT

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 in...

13 December 2007
08:53 GMT

Escape from Paradise City via Direct2Drive

Escape from Paradise City, published by CDV Software Entertainment and developed by Sirius Games has recently been released as a PC exclusive. There are many ways for you to grab it, one of which is purchasing and downloading it through Direct2Drive's service. Here, use this link to get to Paradise. Eh, if only...

7 December 2007
06:37 GMT

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...

30 November 2007
05:14 GMT

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 ...

30 November 2007
03:46 GMT

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 ...

29 November 2007
10:05 GMT

"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 ...

3 October 2007
06:37 GMT

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...

25 September 2007
03:40 GMT

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 Se...

21 September 2007
10:08 GMT

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 s...

12 September 2007
05:12 GMT

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....

30 August 2007
03:28 GMT

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 discoura...

28 August 2007
05:35 GMT

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 Ne...

17 August 2007
02:57 GMT

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 ...

19 July 2007
10:29 GMT

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...

14 June 2007
14:16 GMT

Thompson Failed to File the Kotaku Complaint. How Ironical...!

Last week finished off with news on Jack Thompson's new booboos and adventures with the FBI. This week starts with Thompson's new adventures and how his plans of bringing the video game industry to its knees fail once again. The man didn't stop at just making his usual comments on violent video games, ...

30 April 2007
03:57 GMT

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 they influence us so negative...

24 April 2007
05:36 GMT




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