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On September 9th, this year, Symantec will be launching its new Internet Security Suite with some innovative, new protection and reporting features. Attacked users will have the option to report real-time attacks and/or attackers to proper authorities, while also being weekly informed of the FBI's top 10 most wa... |
8 September 2009
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World of Warcraft is the most popular MMORPG in the world, scoring almost 11,5 million paying subscribers every month. Out of all these people, you can definitely imagine that some of them aren't really the brightest tools in the box. Such is the case with an 18-year-old boy from Johnson County, Indiana, who de... |
15 July 2009
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US experts from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have recently announced that they are in the latter stages of developing a new investigation technique that will help forensics specialists in the manual portion of the latent fingerprint identification. This would free up a lot of time for the... |
24 April 2009
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The Federal Bureau of Investigations is currently alleging that University of Florida (UF) professor Samim Anghaie, along with other family members, have stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars from governmental funds, which were awarded to a company the family ran, but which was illegal. Since 1999, NASA, the US Air... |
27 February 2009
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In the eve of President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration ceremony, the Federal Bureau of Investigations pulled out its biggest and best equipment out of the garage, and set it loose on the streets of Washington. Needless to say, there will be FBI agents everywhere, on rooftops, balconies, but, most of all, on t... |
19 January 2009
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As you know, Brandon Michael Darby, one of the figures that played a very important role in the Common Ground Relief organization, was recently proved to be an FBI informant, as he himself admitted in an open letter. An e-mail that arrived today at Softpedia from the grass-root organization tells their side of the st... |
9 January 2009
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In a recent turn of events, Common Grounds co-founder, Brandon Michael Darby, has come forward and announced that he has been working with the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) for the past couple of years, although many details are still left out from his open letter. He publicly admitted being responsible for ... |
5 January 2009
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Trying to benefit from the reputation and authority of certain government institutions is nothing new to online scammers. However, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) warns via a publicly available intelligence note that FBI officials in particular have found themselves at the center of several recent spam camp... |
11 December 2008
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The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has issued a warning about a vulnerability in the Asterisk open source telephony engine that can supposedly allow attackers to compromise legit VoIP servers and perform thousands of fake phone calls per hour. Digium, the company behind Asterisk, says the warning is... |
8 December 2008
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The FBI executed a search warrant and raided the house of 19-year-old Josh Holly, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, who is suspected of hacking into the e-mail and MySpace account of 15-year-old Miley Cyrus, the lead actress from the popular Disney series Hannah Montana, and posting stolen provocative pictures belonging to th... |
23 October 2008
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Earlier this week a German radio unmasked an FBI undercover operation on a popular underground forum used by cybercriminals to sell stolen banking information and equipment used for credit card fraud. The FBI confirmed the operation in a press release, outlining the results so far and their future plans.As we previou... |
18 October 2008
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The DarkMarket.ws forum, a well known home for credit card fraudsters and skimmers has been under the control of the FBI since 2006. The sting operation has been revealed by reporter Kai Laufen from the Südwestrundfunk (SWR) German radio station. According to several documents leaked from the German nation... |
15 October 2008
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The Entertainment Software Association, the trade association which represents the video game publishers active in the United States, has endorsed the decision of the United States Congress to approve a bill called the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2008, also known as the PR... |
15 October 2008
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David C. Kernell, a 20-year-old student at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for illegally accessing the e-mail account of the US republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin. The alleged hacker faces a maximum of five years in prison and a ... |
9 October 2008
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The FBI has decided to take more measures to fend off the wave of spam attacks in which the sender pretends to be a hitman hired to kill the recipient of the email, or a loved one. The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), a branch of the federal authority, has released an official note, advising people not to liste... |
29 August 2008
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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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
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