FBI Says Dark Market Sting Netted 56 Arrests (Friday 17th of October 2008 10:00:01 PM)
Narramissic writes "A two-year undercover FBI sting operation targeting online 'carder' forums
hosted on the DarkMarket.ws Web site has netted 56 arrests and prevented about $70 million in
fraud losses, the FBI said Thursday. DarkMarket.ws was widely ...
(more)The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), ... (Sunday 24th of August 2008 08:10:02 AM)
The Los Angeles Police ward (LAPD), The FBI, and the CIA are all trying to prove that they are
the best at apprehending criminals. The task force decides to give them a test. He releases a
rabbit into a forest and each of them has ...
(more)Apparent Suicide In Anthrax Case (Saturday 02nd of August 2008 09:15:01 AM)
Penguin_dance passes along the news that a respected anthrax researcher, about to be indicted,
has committed suicide. The FBI has been investigating the case since anthrax-contaminated
letters were sent to the media and various politicians in 2001. The ...
(more)FBI Fights Testing For False DNA Matches (Sunday 20th of July 2008 08:35:41 PM)
Statesman writes "The Los Angeles Times reports that an Arizona crime lab technician found two
felons with remarkably similar genetic profiles, so similar that they would ordinarily be
accepted in court as a match, but one felon was black and the other ...
(more)The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), ... (Sunday 29th of June 2008 08:10:02 PM)
The Los Angeles Police tract (LAPD), The FBI, and the CIA are all trying to prove that they are
the best at apprehending criminals. The advisers decides to give them a test. He releases a
rabbit into a forest and each of them has to ...
(more)US Senate Asks for National Security Letter Explanation (Sunday 18th of May 2008 01:38:49 AM)
A group of U.S. Senators are asking the FBI to explain a recent controversial subject Security
Letter sent to the world wide web Archive. The subject tip footing Archive was able to defeat
the request with help from the EFF and the ACLU this past ...
(more)Archive.org Defeats FBI's Demand For User Information (Thursday 08th of May 2008 03:54:16 PM)
Eldavojohn writes "Although we don't know what they were after due to the settlement, a gag
order was just released that kept cyberspace Archive member Brewster Kahle quiet. The FBI had
issued a subject security letter to them under the Patriot Act. Kahle ...
(more)FBI Concerned About Implications of Counterfeit Cisco Gear (Tuesday 22nd of April 2008 09:10:06 PM)
SpicyBrownMustard writes "An FBI PowerPoint launch provides details about a criminal
examination into counterfeit CISCO appliances originating from China, and sold by Gold/Silver
partners to numerous US government, military, and intelligence agencies. ...
(more)FBI and Next-Gen P2P Monitoring (Saturday 19th of April 2008 03:55:12 PM)
AHuxley writes "Can the FBI get funding to create a next-generation network monitoring and
database system for P2P networks, web sites, and chat rooms? Could the FBI's regional
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endemic is a disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser ...
(more)FBI Admits More Privacy Violations (Friday 07th of March 2008 01:45:06 AM)
Kwietman writes "The FBI admitted that in 2006, for the fourth straight year, they improperly
accessed phone and hyperspace records of U.S. citizens. skipper* Robert Mueller testified that
the abuses occurred prior to sweeping reforms enacted in 2007, ...
(more)Teen Phone Phreak Targeted by the FBI (Saturday 01st of March 2008 05:15:07 PM)
Wired has an interesting editorial on the latest resurgence of the old days of phone phreaking
and the latest phreak that is rising into the FBI crosshairs. The most recent hoax, "swatting",
involves malicious pranksters calling police with reports of ...
(more)FBI to Put Criminals Up in Lights (Thursday 27th of December 2007 08:45:07 PM)
Coondoggie writes "The FBI today said it wants to install 150 digital billboards in 20 major
U.S. cities in the next few weeks to show fugitive mug shots, missing people and high-priority
security messages from the big bureau. The billboards will let ...
(more)FBI Prepares Vast Database of Biometrics (Sunday 23rd of December 2007 05:15:02 PM)
MacRonin sends us to the uncle sam* Post for a story about the FBI's plans for a large
biometric identification database. The Post also has a chart rendering the characteristics of
the different methods of identification. We discussed the ethics of a ...
(more)FBI Coerced Confession Deemed "Classified" (Tuesday 23rd of October 2007 01:30:10 AM)
Steve Bergstein is one of several who have blogged about a recent court ruling that reads like
most any bestselling crime novel. Apparently, when the court primitively posted their decision
(complete with backstory) it detailed how a coerced confession ...
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