FBI Wants to Mandate Surveillance Backdoors

Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is “going dark” as people increasingly communicate online instead of by telephone. Read the full article...

53 Charged in New Jersey ID Theft Case

Fifty-three individuals were charged today in connection with widespread, sophisticated identity theft and fraud, including 43 individuals charged with participating in one large-scale criminal enterprise, United States Attorney Paul J. Fishman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Michael B. Ward...

Hacking Group Raided By FBI

FBI agents have raided the homes of three alleged members of a hacker gang that harassed a security expert who helped put the group’s leader in jail, according to a recently unsealed search warrant affidavit. Read the full article. Wired...

FBI Could Not Crack Encryption

Cryptographic locks guarding the secret files of a Brazilian banker suspected of financial crimes have defeated law enforcement officials including code breakers at the FBI. Read the full article. The Register...

Goatse Hacker Member Arrested on Drug Charges

A hacker in the Goatse Security group that discovered the AT&T iPad-related flaw was arrested following the execution of an FBI search warrant of his home in Arkansas. Read the full article. CNet...

FBI Probes AT&T iPad Goatse Email Leak

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has opened an investigation into the leak of an estimated 114,000 Apple iPad user e-mail addresses including those of Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, ABC ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer and NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Read the full article. IDG News Service...

Former Hacker Lamo Treated for Asperger's

Last month Adrian Lamo, a man once hunted by the FBI, did something contrary to his nature. He picked up a payphone outside a Northern California supermarket and called the cops. Read the full article. Wired...

FBI Plans to Chase Online Money Mules

The FBI’s top anti-cyber crime official today said the agency is planning a law enforcement action against so-called “money mules,” individuals willingly or unwittingly roped into helping organized computer crooks launder money stolen through online banking fraud. Read the full article...

FBI Sting Catches ATM System Hacker

A North Carolina grocery worker is being held without bail in Houston on attempted computer hacking charges after inadvertently partnering with an undercover FBI agent in an alleged citywide ATM-reprogramming caper. Thor Alexander Morris, 19, was arrested at a Houston flea market last month after...

FBI Identifies Top 10 Jobs in Cybercrime

Criminal hacker organizations are operating with increasing corporate-life efficiency, specialization and expertise, said the FBI at FOSE conference. Here are the top ten operational positions in a cybercrime group. Read the full article. Computerworld...

Online Fraud Loss Reaches $560 Mil in 2009

Reported losses from online fraud more than doubled last year, from $265 million in 2008 to nearly $560 million in 2009, according to figures released Friday by the FBI. Read the full article. KrebsonSecurity...

Top Guns of U.S. Security To Speak at RSA

The Obama administration gets a chance to demonstrate its cybersecurity leadership as three top guns from the executive branch – Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt and FBI Director Robert Mueller – address the RSA conference in San...

ID Theft Criminal Sentenced to 309 Years in Prison

Robert Thompson, also known as John Lawson, age 43, of Zachary, La., was sentenced to a term of 309 years in prison. Thompson, the leader of a massive identity theft and bribery scheme, was sentenced based on charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, mail fraud, bank fraud, computer fraud, access device...

FBI RSA Keynote To Focus On Cybercrime

Robert Mueller, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, will deliver a keynote address at RSA Conference 2010 that will detail cyber threats through the years – from criminal threats like computer intrusions and identity theft to the use of the Internet by extremists and hostile foreign...

Feds Nab 4 From 19-Person Indictment in Mexico

Four people from North Texas indicted last week by a federal grand jury in Dallas were arrested Friday morning in Cancun, Mexico, according to the FBI. Michael Faulkner, 36, and his wife, Chastity Faulkner, 34, both of Southlake, were central figures in the 19-person indictment brought by U.S...

FBI Warns Of Potential Haiti Relief Scams

The FBI today reminds Internet users who receive appeals to donate money in the aftermath of Tuesday’s earthquake in Haiti to apply a critical eye and do their due diligence before responding to those requests. Read the guidelines. FBI.gov...

FBI Indicts 19 Texans For Cybercrime Fraud

A federal grand jury in Dallas returned a superseding indictment this week charging 19 defendants in a massive cybercrime conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas. Read the statement. FBI...

FBI: NY School District Accounts Targeted

The FBI is investigating the theft of nearly a half million dollars from tiny Duanesburg Central School District in upstate New York, after cyber thieves tried to loot roughly $3.8 million from district online bank accounts last month. Read the full article. KrebsonSecurity...

Small Biz Targeted by Banking Criminals

The American Bankers Association and the FBI are advising small and midsize businesses that conduct financial transactions over the Internet to dedicate a separate PC used exclusively for online banking as they ahve become targets of banking malware. Read the full article. The Last Watchdog...

Black Energy Tool Used in Citigroup Hack

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing a computer-security breach targeting Citigroup Inc. that resulted in a theft of tens of millions of dollars by computer hackers who appear linked to a Russian cyber gang, according to government officials. Read the full article. Wall Street Journal...