Stories about: US Federal Bureau of Investigation

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    Record growth in malware in 2008: F-Secure 05/12/2008 06:20:00

    The year 2008 has seen another record of explosive growth in the amount of malicious software (malware) on the Internet, according to F-Secure.
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    Spam is silenced, but where are the feds? 28/11/2008 09:00:00

    On October 14, the US Federal Trade Commission, with help from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and New Zealand police, announced that it had shut down a vast international spam network known as HerbalKing.
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    FBI: Several nations eyeing US cyber targets 16/10/2008 08:46:00

    About two dozen nations have developed cyber-attack capabilities and have their eyes on targets inside the US government or businesses, the top cybercrime law enforcement official in the US said.
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    Soloway case reveals big business behind spam 16/07/2008 09:07:49

    Selling the tools used by spammers is easy money, at least until you get caught. Just ask Adam Sweaney, a man charged with computer fraud who took the stand at the sentencing hearing in Seattle for Robert Soloway, the so-called spam king.
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    MySpace users struggle to overcome cybervandalism 01/07/2008 07:46:48

    One of the first social networking upstarts, MySpace, is facing continuing security problems that threaten to spoil many of the innovative features that make the site useful.
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    Internet Archive challenges FBI's secret records demand 08/05/2008 07:57:58

    The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has withdrawn a secret demand that the Internet Archive, an online library, provide the agency with a user's personal information after the Web site challenged the records request in court.
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    Military computer contractor convicted on ID theft charges 05/05/2008 08:16:09

    A former US military contractor has pleaded guilty to exceeding authorized access to a computer and aggravated identity theft after he was accused of selling names and Social Security numbers of 17,000 military employees, the US Department of Justice said.
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    'Reverse Manhattan project' to lock down US federal computers 09/04/2008 09:43:13

    US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said his agency is working on a "reverse Manhattan Project" to help secure the federal government's computer systems.
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    Men fall harder than women for Internet fraud, study finds 04/04/2008 12:07:54

    When it comes to being taken in by Internet fraudsters, men have a knack for losing cash, according to a new report from the Internet Crime Complaint Center.
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    Police raid botmaster blamed for 1 million infections 30/11/2007 07:32:18

    Police have raided the home of the alleged ringleader of an international group of cybercriminals said to be responsible for infecting more than one million computers.
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    Former FBI, CIA employee pleads guilty to computer crime 14/11/2007 08:44:02

    A former employee of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and Central Intelligence Agency has pleaded guilty to charges of fraudulently obtaining US citizenship and accessing a US government computer system to unlawfully find information about her relatives and the Islamic organization Hizballah.
 
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