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EFF: FBI should release surveillance justification document
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2013-11-27 01:35
The Federal Bureau of Investigation should make public a legal opinion it used to justify a past telephone records surveillance program because other agencies may still be relying on the document for surveillance justifications, the Electronic Frontier Foundation argued in court Tuesday.
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FBI posts $50,000 reward for 'Lover Spy' malware writer
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2013-11-11 02:36
The FBI has offered large rewards for information that could help them catch a clutch of alleged cybercriminals, including an El Salvadoran national accused of selling a Trojan designed to spy on husbands or wives believed by their spouses to be cheating on them.
The details published on the FBI website covers all types of cybercrime, including database theft and hacking, telecom fraud, and malware scams. But it is the curious tale of Carlos Enrique Perez-Melara that offers the most more unusual case.
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'Lover Spy' hacker makes FBI 'most wanted' list
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2013-11-11 01:51
A man who allegedly created malware purporting to catch out cheating lovers has made it on to the FBI's "most wanted" list of cybercriminals.
The FBI says Carlos Enrique Perez-Melara ran a website offering customers a way to "catch a cheating lover" by sending spyware masquerading as a greeting card.
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FBI Tor exploit appears on Metasploit penetration tester forum
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2013-08-09 04:58
A Tor exploit pertaining to be one used by the FBI in a recent child pornography bust has been released on the Metasploit penetration tester forum.
The exploit was posted by Metasploit user sinn3r who claimed to have found it during a joint cyber forensics operation at the Defcon hacker conference mere hours after word of its use broke.
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FBI allowed informants to break law more than 5,600 times in year
Submitted by l33tdawg on Sun, 2013-08-04 23:11
The FBI gave its informants permission to break the law at least 5,658 times in a single year, according to newly disclosed documents that show just how often the nation's top law enforcement agency enlists criminals to help it battle crime.
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