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Tag Archives: FBI
WannaCry hero gets off lightly, avoids prison – was justice done?
Wrote malware for money, went straight, got busted, didn’t go to prison. Has US cybercrime enforcement gone soft?
Hackers stole photos of travelers and license plates from subcontractor
Critics say if the US can’t protect such data – which was improperly stored by a subcontractor – it shouldn’t collect it.
The FBI is sitting on more than 641m photos of people’s faces
Its already massive facial recognition databases have ballooned, and government watchdog GAO found that the FBI isn’t checking accuracy.
WannaCry hero Hutchins now officially a convicted cybercriminal
The youngster who spent his own money to protect people from the WannaCry virus has pleaded guilty to malware-related cybercrime charges.
US feds’ names, home and email addresses hacked and posted online
A group of hackers that doxxed thousands of federal law enforcement employees last week has struck again.
FBI crackdown on DDoS-for-hire sites led to 85% slash in attack sizes
According to a new report, average and maximum DDoS attack sizes decreased by 85.36% and 23.91%.
Home DNA kit company says it’s working with the FBI
FamilyTreeDNA has disclosed that it’s opened up more than 1m DNA profiles to the FBI to help find suspects of violent crime.
FBI burrowing into North Korea’s big bad botnet
The FBI revealed that it joined the Joanap botnet and started chewing it up from the inside.
Busted! DOJ exposes huge ad-fraud operation, eight charged
The US Department of Justice has charged eight men with running a vast ad-fraud scheme.