By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Did Hillary Clinton put American security at risk by using a private email server to communicate when she was the secretary of state? The FBI is investigating the security of the private email server, NBC News reports. The bureau also also asked a Clinton attorney about the security of a thumb…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has been quietly using information gathered during warrantless NSA surveillance to comb through emails belonging to foreigners to assist in investigations, the New York Times reports. The Times discovered the FBI was gathering copies of unprocessed communications that were received without a warrant. The Inspector General report commended the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The NSA is collecting e-mail and instant messaging contacts from people worldwide in an attempt to keep an eye on relationships that suspects have with others, the USA Today reported. The idea is to identify any troubling relationships. “You need the haystack to find the needle,” said Gen. Keith B. Alexander, NSA…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department has abandoned it’s long-standing opposition to requiring law enforcement to obtain a warrant before gaining access to certain e-mails, the Washington Post reports. The department had objected to law enforcement accessing e-mails that are 180 days old or less if they had been unopened, the Post reported. “There is…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com I once got a Nigerian email scam telling me I was entitled to millions of dollars for FREE! All I had to do was give my name and bank account number and assist with moving the cash out of Nigeria. I was a reporter at the time at the Washington Post….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Fourteen Romanian citizens apparently banked on the gullibility of mankind. Federal authorities in Connecticut last week announced charges against the 14 for allegedly getting personal information from people on the Internet through a scheme known as “phishing.” The indictment includes allegations that one or more of the defendants in June 2005 …
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Fed prosecutors in San Francisco have decided on Monday not to retry a man who was charged with threatening to kill President Obama via email, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The decision came after a jury on Nov.1 deadlocked in a 6 to 6 vote on whether the racist and violent…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 45-year-old Minnesota man was indicted Thursday for hacking into his neighbor’s wireless router Internet service and sending threats to the vice president and the governor and senator from Minnesota from email under the neighbor’s name. Authorities said Barry Vincent Ardolf was charged with two counts of aggravated identity theft, one…
