By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, who has been sounding the alarms about the dangers of cyber attacks, will be the keynote speaker on March 1 at the RSA Conference, which is billed as the world’s leading information security conference. Mueller will deliver a speech entitled “Combating Threats in the Cyber…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A federal prosecutor in Colorado died Saturday while snowshoeing in the Rocky Mountain National Park, the Denver Post reported. Bob Mydans, 64, collapsed shortly after 3 p.m. and couldn’t be revived, the paper reported. “Bob was a rock, a true mainstay of this office, and never hesitated to take on difficult…
By Nate Carlisle The Salt Lake Tribune Twenty-four days before the Opening Ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics, the FBI’s counterterrorism unit sent a memo to its agents in Utah. The FBI had received a tip from an employee at a cell service provider that a customer had racked up a $103,597 phone bill by…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com ICE agent Ezequiel Garcia, who shot his supervisor last week in Long Beach, Calif., struggled for his gun with another ICE agent who shot him, the Associated Press reported. “There was a very, very intense struggle,” ICE spokeswoman Virginia Kice said, according to AP. “They were physically struggling over the gun.”…
