FBI Warns that Foreign Hackers Are Targeting COVID-19 Research Institutions
A top FBI official said Thursday that foreign state-sponsored hackers have broken into COVID-19 research institutions.
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Trump Budget Calls for Moving Secret Service Back to Treasury Department
The Secret Service, which has been a part of the Department of Homeland Security after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, may soon return to the Treasury Department.
FBI Combats Computer Hackers with Cyber Crimes Task Force in Louisville
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The alarming increase in computer attacks has prompted the FBI to create a cyber crimes task force in Louisville, WDRB.com reports. To combat the sophistication, the FBI is recruiting computer-savvy people. “There’s a changing in the F.B.I. for sure,” said Michael Russo Jr., a Supervisory Special Agent with the F.B.I. Russo…
FBI Director: Don’t Let Marijuana Stop You from Applying to Bureau Jobs
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It seems some of the FBI’s best hacker recruits also like to smoke marijuana. The Washington Times reports that the FBI says its no-tolerance pot policy is hurting the bureau’s ability to recruit the best and brightest hackers. “I have to hire a great work force to compete with those cyber criminals,…
FBI Director Comey Delivers Good News – More Staff, Training, Resources in Beefed-up 2014 Budget
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI Director James Comey sought to assure agents and local law enforcement that the bureau plans to increase staff, training and resources in what will be a much less frugal 2014. The Times-Picayune reports that Comey, during his visit to the bureau’s New Orleans Field Office on Thursday, said the beefed-up budget…
FBI Reduces Number of Agents Investigating Organized Crime
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI will continue to shed the number of agents assigned to fight the mafia as the demand for other threats increases, The New York Times reports. For the third time in five years, the bureau will decrease its agents assigned to organized crime to about three dozens. In the meantime, more…
FBI Creates Squad to Crack Down on Intellectual Property Thefts
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com In an effort to crack down on cyber crimes, the FBI’s field office in Washington has created a squad to investigate intellectual property thefts, the Associated Press reports. The team, assembled with a variety of experts, will investigate intellectual property and economic espionage and occasionally team up with the nearby Intellectual Property…