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Retired FBI Agent Mark Stephen Jimerson Dies at Age 59

allan12 years ago12 years ago05 mins

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Mark Stephen Jimerson, a retired FBI supervisory special agent, died last Thursday at his home in Mitchellville, Md., from a brain-related cancer. He was was 59. In February 1985, Jimerson was assigned to the FBI’s Tampa office, his first posting in the agency. While in Florida, he studied intensive Russian, according…

Cyber Ring that Infected Millions Taken Down

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By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Six Estonians operated a vast internet fraud that infected approximately 4 million computers in more than a hundred countries–500,000 of which were in the US–according to a federal indictment unsealed in New York Wednesday. Their arrests in Estonia on Tuesday were the culmination of a two-year FBI probe named Operation Ghost…