FBI Says Twitter Needs to Do More to Monitor Site for Terrorism-Related Activity
Could Twitter do more to stop terrorists from recruiting others?
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Donald Trump Asks FBI to Investigate Alleged Threat from Escaped Drug Lord ‘El Chapo’
Presidential candidate and shrewd businessman Donald Trump is asking the FBI to investigate a Twitter threat he received from an account purportedly run by escaped Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
FBI Seeks Help with Disturbing ‘Sextortion’ Case Involving Hundreds of Girls
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI may be handling its biggest case yet of “sextortion.” The bureau is asking for the public’s help finding hundreds of teenage victims who sent sexually explicit photos to a Florida man after he threatened them, WJXT reports. Lucas Chansler, 31, was sentenced to 105 years in federal prison last…
FBI: Women Looking for Love Online Targeted Most Often by Internet Scams
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com. People looking for love online are targeted for Internet fraud more than anyone else, the FBI revealed in its annual online fraud report. The Internet Crime Complaint Center, or IC3, said romance confidence scams cost victims an average of $14,214. Although men are slightly more likely to be victimized by Internet…
Secret Service Kept Busy Monitoring President Obama’s New Twitter Account
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama’s decision to join Twitter unleashed a torrent of hateful, even threatening tweets that have already caught the attention of the Secret Service. Not only that, the White House is archiving every response to @POTUS, the Washington Post reports. So the newspaper kindly reminds readers to be wise when tweeting…
Feds Investigate Online Posting of Personal Information about U.S. Military Members
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal investigators are trying to determine whether an Islamic group illegally obtained personal information of 100 U.S. military members before posting it publicly. A group called the Islamic Hacking Division posted the information online, urging its “brothers residing in America” to attack, The USA Today reports. One investigator said it appears…
FBI Director James Comey: ‘We’re Making Progress’ Against Lone-Wolf Terrorists
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Top FBI Counterterrorism Official: ‘We’re losing the battle’ with ISIS
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s top counterterrorism official left no room for ambiguity about the frustrating battle to stop ISIS’ aggressive social media campaign: “We are losing the battle,” ABC News reports. The terror group “has proven dangerously competent like no other group before it at employing [online] tools for its nefarious strategy,” the…