Blog Posts Tagged with "FBI"
FBI Announces Executive Appointments in Cyber Division
June 19, 2012 Added by:Headlines
FBI Director Robert S. Mueller announced that Joseph M. Demarest will move to the Cyber Division as assistant director and that Cyber Division Section Chief James C. Burrell has been appointed deputy assistant director of the Cyber Division at FBI Headquarters...
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LulzSec Hacker Indicted for Conspiracy to Conduct Cyber Attacks
June 14, 2012 Added by:Headlines
The indictment alleges that Ryan Cleary controlled a large botnet of potentially hundreds of thousands of units to conduct DDoS attacks and would rent out his botnet for certain time periods in exchange for money from individuals interested in conducting DDoS attacks targeting specific victims...
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The FBI's Most Wanted Cyber Criminals
June 13, 2012 Added by:Headlines
While the objective of criminal elements largely remains the same, the ubiquity of the digital systems that pervade every aspect of our culture present a new set of challenges for law enforcement, and new breed of criminal. The following are the Federal Bureau of Investigations "most wanted" cyber crooks...
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FBI Opens Investigation into Stuxnet Attack Leaks
June 06, 2012 Added by:Headlines
The FBI is probing the source of recently leaked information regarding covert cyber operations conducted by the U.S. government, particularly the Stuxnet attacks. Stuxnet is largely considered to be a game changer because the virus affected kinetic damage on equipment the targeted systems controlled...
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Man Sentenced to Almost Five Years in Prison for Identity Theft
June 04, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Michael Garcia was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to 57 months in prison for fraud. Garcia accessed the computer servers of a law firm and an accountant firm without their knowledge or authorization and downloaded the personal information of more than 1,450 clients and employees...
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Programmer Pleads Guilty to Stealing Code from Federal Reserve
May 30, 2012 Added by:Headlines
“Bo Zhang may have thought that he left no fingerprints when he engaged in his high-tech thievery—stealing proprietary government software worth nearly $10 million using little more than a mouse—but he was mistaken. He was caught in his tracks and now he will be punished for his cyber-thievery"...
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West New York Mayor Arrested for Hacking
May 25, 2012 Added by:Headlines
The mayor of West New York, N.J., and his son were arrested for allegedly hacking into an e-mail account and website associated with a movement to recall the mayor, and have been charged with gaining unauthorized access to computers and conspiracy...
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FBI Warns Companies of Anonymous DDoS Attacks
May 25, 2012 Added by:Headlines
The Cyber Division of the FBI warned several large corporations of the potential for DDoS and data exfiltration attacks scheduled for today, May 25. The attacks are being coordinated by the rogue movement Anonymous in an an exercise termed "Operation NewSon"...
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Insider Threat: Former PNC Manager Pleads Guilty to Bank Theft
May 25, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Laird stole the funds through a number of means: opening credit accounts in her father’s name without authorization; making redemptions from CD accounts of five customers; opening checking accounts in other names and wroting checks to pay her personal bills and expenses...
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FBI Guidance on Avoiding Internet-Based Fraud
May 21, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
Listed below are tips to protect your business, yourself and your family from various forms of Internet fraud. For information on the most common complaints and scams, see the annual reports of the Internet Crime Complaint Center a partnership of the FBI and the NWCCC...
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Has Anonymous Infiltrated the US Government?
May 16, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
"Right now we have access to every classified database in the U.S. government. It’s a matter of when we leak the contents of those databases, not if. You know how we got access? We didn’t hack them. The access was given to us by the people who run the systems…"
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IC3: 2011 Internet Crime Report
May 15, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
IC3 represents a perfect example of how technological services could help in the prevention and analysis of criminal activities, and highlights that the real weapon against Internet crime is awareness and information sharing...
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FBI Guidance of Combating the Insider Threat
May 15, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
The thief who is harder to detect and who could cause the most damage is the insider — the employee with legitimate access. They may steal solely for personal gain or be a “spy”—someone who is stealing company information or products in order to benefit another organization or country...
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Manager of Phishing Ring Sentenced to Five Years in Prison
May 15, 2012 Added by:Headlines
A principal figure in the domestic arm of an international “phishing” operation that used spam e-mails and bogus websites to defraud American banks was found guilty of bank and wire fraud, identity theft, computer fraud, and money laundering and sentenced to five years in federal prison...
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Federal Charges Filed in Case Involving Theft of Trade Secrets
May 14, 2012 Added by:Headlines
The indictment alleges that Janice Kuang Capener took information related to customers and the pricing and sales of products without authorization from secure Orbit databases, and used that information for herself and others to the economic detriment of the company...
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FBI on Bitcoin: Cybercrime, Opportunity and Digital Choice
May 11, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
The real danger of digital money, above the vulnerabilities in its processes, is the inability of governments to exert control over finances, which could lead to a distortion of the main mechanisms of economic control and taxation, bringing total chaos to the market...
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