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- Penetration testing: Hacking the FBI
- There's something about penetration testing that is just so attractive. Can you imagine being paid to find embarrassing security holes? It's the ultimate puzzle with the ultimate "I'm smarter than you" grand prize. And I just know that it would appeal to some of the people who...
- Tags: Database, Hacking, Network, FBI, Blog, Federal Government, Workstations, Web Servers, Networking, Government, Internet, Toni Bowers
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- FBI investigation nets $3.5 million worth of fake network equipment
- The FBI has announced that an investigation into counterfeit network components made in China -- and sold to the U.S. government -- has recovered about 3,500 fake devices with a value of $3.5 million. The uncovered devices include pirated versions of Cisco routers, switches, interface converters, and...
- Tags: Network, FBI, Network Equipment, Cisco Systems Inc., Federal Government, Networking, Government, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Click the wrong link and wind up in jail
- In the 10 Things blog, Deb Shinder recently pointed out 10 ways you might be breaking the law with your computer and not even know it. There's yet another way that wasn't mentioned in that article. Specifically it has to do with recent arrests made by the FBI in suspected child...
- Tags: Child Pornography, FBI, Site, Web Browser, Image, TinyURL, Federal Government, Government, John Sheesley
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- Top IT news for April 24: FBI wants to monitor Internet, strong earnings from Apple, Vista SP1 goes automatic
- Top five headlines FBI eyes widespread monitoring of Net Apple blows through estimates; Ships 2.29 million Macs; Outlook light by design? Microsoft begins automatic distribution of Vista SP1 today Report: Yahoo, Google talk with DOJ on ad test Ballmer: We don't need Yahoo...
- Tags: Web, Monitor, Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., FBI, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Earnings, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Web 2.0, Strategy, Channel Management, Federal Government, Productivity, Internet, Management, Marketing, Government, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- Security consultant alleges FBI backdoor into major wireless carrier
- A computer security consultant has come forward with allegations that the FBI has direct high-speed access to the internal systems of a major wireless carrier. The CEO of New York-based firm Bat Blue, Babak Pasdar, won't name the wireless carrier, but he claims he chanced upon the...
- Tags: Wireless Carrier, Network, FBI, Allegation, Pasdar, Federal Government, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Government, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- FBI to construct massive biometrics database
- At a price of $1 billion, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is undertaking construction of a biometric database that will store a lot more information on individuals including fingerprints, facial characteristics, sound patterns, iris, ear lobe, and palm prints. An excerpt from Ars Technica: Moving...
- Tags: Database, FBI, Biometrics, Technology, Federal Government, Government, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-12-26
- New Zealand police moves in on botmaster of one million bots
- As part of the FBI's Operation Bot Roast II, New Zealand police cracked down on a suspected botnet ringleader in New Zealand, whom the FBI says controls over one million computers illegally. This is part of the same operation that resulted in the arrest of security consultant...
- Tags: FBI, New Zealand, Bot, Federal Government, Government, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-11-30
- Faulty forensic test put innocents in jail over decades
- A faulty forensic analysis has put hundreds of innocent people in jail over decades, according to a joint investigation by The Washington Post and 60 Minutes. Eventually found to be unreliable, it was quietly dumped four decades later without alerting those convicted. The "comparative bullet-lead analysis"...
- Tags: FBI, Analysis, Computer, Federal Government, Productivity, Government, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-11-19
- FBI unearths more than one million botnet victims
- The United States Department of Justice and FBI announced in a press release that ongoing investigations under a national initiative called Operation Bot Roast have identified more than 1 million potential botnet victims. At the moment, the FBI is working with its industry partners, including the likes...
- Tags: FBI, Bot, Computer, Federal Government, Productivity, Government, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-06-13
- FBI's secret spyware becomes public
- There is an interesting article on Wired about how the FBI used a spyware program to track a teenager who was making bomb threats against a Washington state high school. Also included in the article is a link to the actual affidavit that was submitted to the 9th US Circuit Court...
- Tags: Spyware
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- FBI's secret spyware becomes public
- 1984 BY GEORGE ORWELL FORTOLD THISSICENCE FICTION HAS BECOME REAILTY AGAIN.1984 BY GEORGE ORWELL FORTOLD THIS. i READ THIS BOOK IN THE EARLY 1960'S AND FOUND IT HARD TO THINK IT COULD BE AS THE PRICE OF MAINFRAMES WERE NOT SOMETHING THAT JUST ANYONE COULD HAVE.AS A SOCIETY WE...
- Tags: georgerothfuss, spyware, FBI
- Discussion threads 2007-07-23
- FBI rounds up bot-herders, national security at stake
- During the May 2007 Anti-Phishing Working Group Counter eCrime summit in San Francisco, researcher Joe St. Sauver spoke about the need for a government agency to step up and help in the war against consumer computer compromise. He stated that consumers aren't capable of taking the steps necessary to prevent...
- Tags: Viruses, Virus, Leadership, Internet, Security, Attack mitigation, Computer Crime, Computer Forensics, Cybercrime, Cyberwarfare
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- FBI rounds up bot-herders, national security at stake
- This is "Officer Bar Brady" Stuff"Nothing New Here, move along now". The IC3 has been around for over a decade, and has failed to put a dent in cybercrime. As with any wild frontier, or when traveling in parts of the world where the rule of law is tenuous, it...
- Tags: Federal government, tomb@..., FBI
- Discussion threads 2007-06-18
- FBI unearths over 1 million botnet victims
- However the golden question is, what strategies do you folks down in the trenches employ to identify and generally cope with bot infections.Get the ball rolling: How I do itThe problem with bots is that if a PC is infected, you no longer have any assurance that the rest of...
- Tags: paulmah@..., bot, FBI
- Discussion threads 2007-06-13
- Hack out evil-doers and bring them to justice
- Some people hack into computers for personal financial gain--espionage, identity theft, and extortion--but others hack to sniff out evil-doers and bring them to justice. See this news article: "Police blotter: Trojan horse leads to porn convictions." According to the article, "In early 2000, a computer hacker who used the now-defunct...
- Tags: Child Pornography, FBI, Computer, Federal Government, Productivity, Hacking, E-mail, Security, Government, Online Communications, Sonja Thompson
- Blog posts 2006-08-28
- Freedom of information? Uncle Sam, get it right!
- Government noncompliance with E-FOIAAccording to attorney Eric Sinrod, "A recent audit by the National Security Archive -- an independent, nongovernmental research effort at George Washington University -- paints a bleak picture of governmental noncompliance with the Electronic Freedom of Information Act (E-FOIA)." It's been 10 years since Congress enacted E-FOIA...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Sonja Thompson, compliance, E-FOIA, civil liberty, government
- Discussion threads 2007-03-28
- FBI chief blames computers for privacy flap
- interesting...So basically he's telling congress, "We have a big reporting problem, but there's nothing we'll let you do about it". Also, the Sentinel upgrade mentioned, has NOTHING to do with the rest of the article. He specifically said they would not be putting all the data there, so there will...
- Tags: Litehouse, FBI, computer
- Discussion threads 2007-03-28
- WSQ image library (for fingerprints) (zip)
- Reads and converts WSQ (FBI's Wavelet Scalar Quantization) and 31 other formats. Supports: WSQ, BMP, TIFF, PNG, JPEG, RGB, TGA, GIF, CEL, PSD, IFF, PCX, etc. For fingerprint images WSQ Wavelet Scalar Quantization is superior to other lossy compression methods, such as JPEG, and was chosen by FBI (U.S. Federal...
- Tags: FBI, JPEG, Federal Government, Government
- Software downloads 2006-07-21
- Senators won't take away FBI surveillance power
- BOO! HISS!I still say the government (a.k.a. the Bush administration) is overstepping the bounds of the Constitution, especially relating to personal privacy. For Congress to do anything short of repealing the Patriot Act is cowardice.It's not right for the privacy of most to be attacked because of the...
- Tags: Zeppo9191, privacy, government, FBI
- Discussion threads 2007-03-22
- House questions 'overreaching' FBI spy powers
- another no comment......as long as you allow no notification on subsequent posts.
- Tags: Federal government, wmlundine@..., FBI
- Discussion threads 2007-03-21
