As domestic terrorism cases continue to rise, the U.S. must take on extremism on the Internet, Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said Tuesday.
The phone in your pocket gives you powers that were hard to imagine even five years ago.
Imagine that a criminal investigator has identified one or more computers that are part of ongoing criminal activity.
The FBI was able to identify hundreds of users by infecting the sites with security-busting software.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Authorities are worried about a spate of attacks on high-capacity Internet cables in the San Francisco Bay Area in the past year, including one early Tuesday morning, USA Today reports. The latest attack, which involved breaking into an underground vault and cutting fiber-optic cables, cut off Internet service for businesses and…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com. People looking for love online are targeted for Internet fraud more than anyone else, the FBI revealed in its annual online fraud report. The Internet Crime Complaint Center, or IC3, said romance confidence scams cost victims an average of $14,214. Although men are slightly more likely to be victimized by Internet…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The House Homeland Security chairman suggested terrorism “has gone viral” because of the accessibility of the Internet, where terrorist groups are recruiting new members. “I think there’s been an uptick in the stream of threats out there,” Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said. “It’s very concerning.” McCaul only needed to…
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