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Homeland Security Chairman: Espionage Motivates China to Hack U.S.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Evidence n0t only points to China as the culprit behind “the most significant breach in U.S. History,” but the hackers may have been sponsored by the Chinese government, The Hill reports. House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said all indications are that hackers were motivated espionage because of the target,…
FBI Agent Accused of Bankrolling Lavish Lifestyle with Seized Drug Money
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An FBI agent is accused of bankrolling his lavish lifestyle with money seized from drug dealers. Scott M. Bowman, 44, has been charged with stealing more than $100,000 confiscated from suspected drug dealers, according to a grand jury indictment unsealed Thursday, the Los Angeles Times reports. Bowman is accused of spending…
Growing Cases of Extremism Is Draining FBI Resources Nationwide
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is using several dozen surveillance teams to track criminal suspects around-the-clock nationwide, USA Today reports. Comey said the surge of cases involving extremism is taking a toll on the bureau’s resources, noting that each of the bureau’s 56 field offices is investigating suspected violent extremists. One suspect who required…
FBI: China-Based Hackers Stole Information on 4 Million Federal Workers
U.S. investigators believe China-based hackers stole identifying information of at least 4 million federal workers across virtually every agency.
DEA Agent Dies a Month After Motorcycle Crash in Indiana
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Scott Sieben, a DEA agent assigned to the Evansville, Ind., post, died this week from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash a month earlier, the Evansville Courier & Press reports. Scott Sieben, 54, died Tuesday in an Indianapolis hospital where he had been since the May 3 crash. Sieben previously worked…
FBI: Apple And Google Are Assisting Terrorists with Privacy Tecnhology
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Are Apple and Google the bad guys? A senior FBI official told a Congressional committee that the technology giants are aiding terrorists by offering users encrypted communications, a senior FBI officials told the House Homeland Security Committee, The Register reports. Michael Steinbach, assistant director in the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, said the…
Proecutors: Terrorism Suspect in Boston Planned to Kill Police with Knives
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Not long before a 26-year-old terrorism suspect was fatally shot Tuesday during a scuffle with FBI agents and Boston police, he told a friend that he wanted to randomly kill police officers and bought three combat knives on Amazon.com, the Washington Post reports. A criminal complaint filed against Usaamah Abdullah Rahim…