Latest Federal Bureau of Investigation Stories
BASKING RIDGE, N.J. and LONG BEACH, Calif., July 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Wireless, a corporate leader in domestic violence prevention, presented the Ferndale, Wash. Police Department with a HopeLine® Law Enforcement Partnership Award at this year's FBI National Academy Associates, Inc. (FBINAA) annual conference in Long Beach, Calif. This award honors the efforts of public safety officials who have demonstrated extraordinary commitment and focus on preventing domestic violence...
VILNIUS, Lithuania, July 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Neurotechnology, a provider of high-precision biometric identification technologies, today announced that MegaMatcher and VeriFinger SDK fingerprint compression algorithms have received WSQ Certification. This means that the FBI has certified that these implementations meet the accuracy requirements in the Wavelet Scalar Quantization (WSQ) Gray-Scale Fingerprint Image Compression Specification, Version 3.1. Neurotechnology is among the first...
DULLES, Va., July 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- In a major initiative sponsored by the FBI and its criminal justice partners, Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) completed the latest increment of the National Data Exchange (N-DEx) criminal justice information sharing system. N-DEx, now fully operational, is managed by the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services Division (CJIS) and allows 200,000 investigators in more than 18,000 local, state, tribal and federal criminal justice agencies to share...
Authorities arrested 16 people on Tuesday in connection with hacking attacks by the cyber activist group "˜Anonymous', Fox News reported. The arrests, which appeared to be part of a nationwide crackdown against the online group, came after FBI agents conducted early morning raids on Tuesday on multiple homes in New York, California, New Jersey and Florida, CBS news reported.  Some 30 to 40 search warrants had been issued prior to the raids.Fourteen of the arrests were identified in...
Law enforcement officials from the US and Romania have teamed up to arrest more than 100 people in what is being called a year-old effort to curb online fraud schemes.According to Reuters, Justice Department officials announced the arrests on Friday.The schemes, they say, involved Romanian citizens pretending to be American and posting advertisements on popular websites such as eBay and Craigslist. Reuters said that those ads would promise a big-ticket item such as a boat or a car, promising...
South Beach Smoke has issued a statement on the Federal case against Pogos Paul Sefilian, who was brought into custody by the FBI and charged with "Interference with the Flight Crew" after they told him to put away his electronic cigarette on an airplane July 10th. Miami Beach, FL (PRWEB) July 15, 2011 South Beach Smoke has issued a statement on the Federal case against Pogos Paul Sefilian, who was brought into custody by the FBI and charged with "Interference with the Flight Crew" after...
According to a report by Reuters, law-enforcement agencies are increasingly obtaining warrants to search Facebook. The report said that since 2008, federal judges have authorized at least two-dozen warrants to search individuals' Facebook accounts. Reuters found during its investigation that many of the warrants requested personal data like messages, status updates, links to videos and photographs, calendars of future and past events, "Wall postings" and "rejected Friend...
Head of FBI Cyber Squad talks to Phil Cannella about online defamation, Internet fraud that targets seniors, and the FBI's determination to track down "anonymous" cyber-criminals. Philadelphia, PA (PRWEB) July 01, 2011 On Saturday, July 2, the Crash Proof Retirement Showâ„¢ will air a one-of-a-kind interview with FBI Supervisory Special Agent Brian Herrick of the Philadelphia FBI Cyber Squad. Taped on June 22 at the show's world-class studio in King of Prussia, PA, the segment...
RESTON, Va., June 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- INTEGRITYOne Partners, a management and information technology (IT) consulting firm recognized for the creative solutions, innovative ideas, discipline, and rigor its high-performing teams deliver to clients, announced today that it has teamed with Applied Information Sciences (AIS) of Reston, Va., to win a $40 million, single-award, five-year Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to provide SharePoint services to the Federal...
The FBI and police agencies in seven other countries have seized computers and servers from which a "scareware" scheme was being operated. According to Reuters, the operation had bilked more than $72 million from victims by selling software that claimed to find security risks on PCs and then asked for cash to fix the non-existent problems.In the US, 22 computers and servers were seized along with 25 others in France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom,...
