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How to avoid being tagged as a terrorist: Don't pay cash for coffee

Posted February 10, 2012 - 2:35 pm

As part of an effort to get the American public involved in the search for terrorists, the FBI has distributed lists warning how a terrorist might behave in each of 25 different types of business. Some are good indicators; most are so generic anyone could be tapped as a terrorist.
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Is this the best file on Steve Jobs the FBI could come up with?

Posted February 9, 2012 - 1:58 pm

The Federal Bureau of Investigation's file on Apple co-founder Steve Jobs contains no bombshells, unless the fact that some people in Silicon Valley didn't trust jobs comes as a shock to you.
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FBI declares cloud vendors must meet CJIS security rules

Posted February 7, 2012 - 9:32 pm

The FBI Tuesday reaffirmed its rule that all cloud products sold to to U.S. law enforcement agencies must comply with the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Systems security requirements.
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Anonymous scores big in world-championship lurking, spying contest with FBI

Posted February 3, 2012 - 2:43 pm

FBI and Anonymous have become so involved that it's possible within a short time that neither will have time for anything but investigating the other. Cracking, recording and posting the audio from an FBI/Scotland Yard conference call is the best shot in the game by far.
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Use Twitter, get sent to Gitmo?

Posted January 30, 2012 - 3:11 pm

The FBI wants new ways to mine social media for threats. The DHS is deporting people for tweeting. Remember: What you say on Twitter and Facebook can be used against you.
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Files lost in MegaUpload shutdown lead to lawsuits

Posted January 27, 2012 - 11:13 am

MegaUpload didn't host 100 percent pirated files. Owners of legit files are calling lawyers.
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What happens to legal files on Megaupload?

Posted January 20, 2012 - 10:28 am

Pirate haven Megaupload got megabusted. What happens to legal files and their owners?
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Carrier IQ doth protest too much; shouldst really quit the incriminating denials

Posted December 14, 2011 - 12:24 pm

Carrier IQ continues attempts to convince the public that making an app that monitors 100 million cell phones doesn't mean Carrier IQ monitors phones. And, if the FBI got Carrier IQ data about user activities, it came from a Carrier IQ customer, not Carrier IQ. OK? We cool now?
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Carrier IQ denies the obvious in spyware scandal, avoids blaming the real culprits

Posted December 13, 2011 - 11:21 am

Carrier IQ issued report last night with further clarifications designed to get smartphone users to believe the top quality spyware it makes is not, in fact, spyware. It should concentrate on the real issue: not that spyware is made, but that carriers use it covertly on their customers.
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Carrier IQ: A cop's best friend?

Posted December 13, 2011 - 9:53 am

Is the FBI using Carrier IQ's data to hunt down bad guys? The Feds aren't allowed to say -- and that's pretty telling in itself. UPDATE: Carrier IQ responds.
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FBI center warns consumers how to avoid scams during Black Friday, holiday shopping

Posted November 22, 2011 - 2:17 pm

The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center issued a list of tips to avoid the most common scams and offers updates on the latest to hit the 'net as well as easy-to-read briefings to help identify anything suspicious.
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Is your PC haunted by Ghost Click?

Posted November 10, 2011 - 12:52 pm

The FBI just took down a criminal botnet that hijacked more 4 million PCs worldwide. Here's how to find out if yours is among them.
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FBI wants a second, secure Internet; how about policing the one we have?

Posted October 28, 2011 - 12:20 pm

Top officials of the FBI and CIA have called for construction of a second, more secure Internet for critical systems. The NSA and Pentagon want responsibility localized to players in specific areas. No agency is responsible for coordinating all the pieces, so gaps remain.
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How hackers get caught

Posted October 24, 2011 - 12:45 pm

Carelessness in concealing home IP addresses, servers and Twitter accounts puts the FBI on more hacker doorsteps than any mistake but the most obvious: don't tell people you did it.
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What’s in your Facebook file? More than you think.

Posted September 28, 2011 - 11:01 am

Yes, Facebook is keeping a file on you, which can be used to track your location, activities, and much more. Here's how you can request a copy. (Warning: They might not give it to you.)
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Who keeps your secrets: Some VPN anonymity providers sound noble; others are just icky

Posted September 23, 2011 - 2:15 pm

Hidemyass.com is taking a hiding for helping bust LulzSec'er Recursion, but it did what it said it would. VPN proxies are not all the same. Some take great pains to offer real protection for dissidents in danger; others are interested in privacy for secrets that are a lot more tawdry.
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FBI makes easy catch of alleged LulzSec hacker 'Recursion' for Sony data breach

Posted September 23, 2011 - 12:26 pm

The FBI has arrested a 23-year-old man it accuses of being LulzSec member "Recursion," for his alleged involvement in one of many attacks on Sony in April and May.
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FBI 'psych profile' of Anonymous leaders is fake; FBI pursuit and tactics it described are real

Posted September 20, 2011 - 4:55 pm

The document leaked by Anonymous early in September that allegedly contained unflattering characterizations of Anonymous leaders was as fake and the spelling and copyediting skills of its authors, but the investigations described in it keep raking in more hackers all the time.
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'Leaked' FBI document calls Anonymous a national security threat

Posted September 12, 2011 - 12:52 pm

A document purportedly leaked form the FBI's criminal-profiling unit calls Anonymous not a collection of activists , but a unified criminal group focused on protest and social disruption.
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How do you know if the FBI is going to come after you for an innocent little hack?

Posted August 23, 2011 - 11:23 am

Through an FOIA request, Ars Technica got FBI case files that show how it pursued Anonymous in 2008; methods aside, when and whether it will investigate cybercrime is hard to predict.
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Mattel's GirlTech Messenger could jam FBI, Secret Service digital radios

Posted August 12, 2011 - 12:34 pm

A research paper explains how the $30 toy can wreak havoc on a multi-billion dollar government encrypted radio protocol.
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At Black Hat learn to: kill diabetics, destroy Sony, steal a car, work at NSA

Posted August 8, 2011 - 12:54 pm

Demos at Black Hat were typically flashy, impressive and fascinating. They didn't compare to the global cyberespionage campaigns that have kept us at cyberwar for years without knowing it.
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Spam Hall of Famer Sanford Wallace faces FBI charges for Facebook scam

Posted August 8, 2011 - 5:30 am

Yet another court date and yet another loss in court may finally send "Spam King" to jail, but won't improve the scam-infected, spam-covered Internet he helped create.
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R u h4X0R? n33d @ jo8? NSA wants you (locked up in a cubicle, not a cell)

Posted August 2, 2011 - 1:25 pm

NSA, the intelligence agency responsible for eavesdropping on foreign conversations and digital communications, is at Black Hat to recruite hackers to crack the "hardest problems," and is willing to put up with people who don't wear crisp white shirts every day to get them.
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Did a dozen or so arrests kill off the Anonymous insurgency? Oh, sure

Posted July 22, 2011 - 6:30 am

During the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, being Al Queda's second in command became being the away team's red-shirt. Roughly three million were killed. Are the Anonymi taken by the FBI really the core group of ringleaders? Oh, sure. First or second in command. Every one of them.
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