Articles Tagged with ''FBI''

Evidence suggests that the crash of an SUV into a downtown Washington office building last Friday may be linked to a plan to blow up the vehicle inside the building.

An FBI effort to clean up damage done by an international hacking scheme ends on July 9, and any infected computer remaining will no longer be able to access the Internet.

Hackers from loose online confederation Anonymous defaced several Panda Security websites in response to the arrest of six LulzSec hackers after one of them released information to the FBI. 

A regional forensics lab where investigators can analyze digital evidence in their pursuit of cyber criminals opened in Orange County, Calif.

It’s a telling case: a few years ago, members of two criminal organizations in California were charged for their role in a large-scale fencing operation to buy and sell over-the-counter health and beauty products—as well as other items like camera film, batteries, and infant formula—that had been stolen from major retail chain stores. The merchandise was then passed off to crooked out-of-state wholesale distributors, who just sold it back to unsuspecting retailers.

The US government is creating a vast domestic spying network to collect information about Americans in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks and subsequent terror plots, said a Washington Post report.

According to the FBI's Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report, January-June, 2010, the nation saw a 6.2 percent decrease in the number of reported violent crimes and a 2.8 percent decrease in the number of reported property crimes compared to data for the same time frame during 2009.