By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Microsoft took less than one hour to provide the FBI with data connected to the Charlie Hebdo investigation, an attorney for the software giant said Tuesday, The Los Angeles Times reports. After concluding the request was “proper,” Microsoft gave the FBI the information in within about 45 minutes. Microsoft attorney Brad…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com BOGSAT. DILLIGAD. SOMSW. Those are three terms – or acronyms – that the FBI considers serious enough to add to its 83-page glossary if Internet slang. And the reason for adding the nearly 3,000 terms may be as confusing as the terms themselves, the Washington Post reports. The glossary is called “Twittter shorthand,”…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Obama administration is close to stiffening surveillance laws to make it easier to wiretap people who use the Internet, the New York Times reports. Saying it’s much easier to wiretap people using traditional phone services, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III wants the federal government to extend the practice to monitor…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The complexities of the Internet are creating major challenges for the FBI. Security Daily News reports that the FBI halted a child porn investigation, “citing an inability to infiltrate the Web’s hidden underworld — the ‘dark net’.” Information about the probe was obtained through a Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request….
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com In a brave new high-tech world, the federal indictment of eight online drug traffickers is the first of its kind. The BBC reports that the feds busted up a $1million-plus illegal drug operation online on a marketplace called “The Farmer’s Market” using the TOR network, which allows emails and websites to hide…
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 Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Is a company entitled to know if the software it produces is being used by the FBI? The FBI says No. Carrier IQ, a Mountain View, Calif.-based tech company, aggravated many when news got out that it had installed tracking software on millions of peoples’ cell phones without their knowledge, and…
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…
