FBI popularity and FBI trends

The FBI has probably been monitoring the web activity of random citizens for quite some time, but today, as Cnet reports, the law enforcement bureau has formed a dedicated unit for the purpose of internet surveillance. But its end goal is a bit different than you may think. More »

An anonymous reader writes with this snippet from CNET: "CNET has learned that the FBI has formed a Domestic Communications Assistance Center, which is tasked with developing new electronic surveillance technologies, including intercepting Internet, wireless, and VoIP communications. 'The big question for me is why there isn't more transparency about what's going on?' asks Jennifer Lynch, a sta...

The search in the Verdugo Mountains for a missing FBI agent has been stopped and investigators will instead focus on tips from the public, according to Burbank police. Authorities had been actively combing the nearby mountains for 35-year-old FBI agent Stephen Ivens, who went missing from his Burbank home nearly two weeks ago. Burbank Police Sgt. Darin Ryburn said Wednesday a final search was ...

Wow! We can't believe it's already been this long! You may recall that before Anne Hathaway became involved with Adam Shulman in 2008, she dated Raffaello Follieri, the con-man who was arrested on fraud charges after stealing millions from investors in a scheme in which he posed as the Vatican's point man on real estate! Remember? [...]

Chuck Schumer put his Senatorial arm on FBI Director Robert Mueller last week -- pressuring him to call NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly and brief him on the recently foiled Yemeni bomb plot.

ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - An FBI expert found crucial evidence in the Trayvon Martin case was inconclusive, saying it was impossible to tell if the voice screaming for help belonged to the black Florida teenager or his shooter George Zimmerman just before the neighborhood watch captain pulled the trigger.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Police and FBI officials were poring over more than 100 tips as they hunted for a man accused of stabbing his new wife to death and leaving her body in her bathtub, still clad in the silver sequined cocktail dress she wore to celebrate their wedding....

Robert S. Mueller III said that such a leak threatens operations, “makes it much more difficult to recruit sources, and damages our relationships with our foreign partners.”

The $2 billion loss by JP Morgan Chase is a failure of risk management, the US treasury secretary Timothy Geithner said, as the FBI launched an investigation into the issue.

Mississippi police and the FBI are investigating whether someone impersonating an officer may have killed two motorists last week.

Shareholders put pressure on bank to reclaim money from executives who oversaw the trades now under investigation.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is examining potential wrongdoing surrounding JPMorgan Chase's $2 billion trading loss, people briefed on the matter say.

An FBI agent is feared to have hiked into the foothills north of Los Angeles, armed with a handgun and bent on suicide.

SAO PAULO (AP) -- FBI agents have spent three days in Brazil helping train local police officers to respond in case of terrorist attacks during the 2014 World Cup....

@ Mühappel: Welche "Eliten" denn diesmal? Die Bilderberger? Die Illuminaten? Die Freimaurer? Die Rothschilds? Der Mossad? Die CIA? FBI? ARD? DRK? Oder vielleicht doch mal wieder KFC?

Hacker haben offenbar versucht, über gefälschte E-Mails in die Systeme mehrerer US-Gas-Pipelines zu gelangen. Die Betrugsversuche sind laut der Ministeriumsstelle für Cyber-Attacken sehr geschickt und überzeugend aufgezogen. Das FBI hat die Ermittlungen aufgenommen.

Die CIA hat einen ranghohen Al-Kaida-Führer bei einem Drohnenangriff im Südjemen getötet. Fahd al Kuso gehörte zu meistgesuchten Personen des FBI. Die jemenitische Regierung habe den Einsatz genehmigt, hieß es.

Federal authorities on Tuesday described the men as anarchists who are angry with corporate America and the government and unknowingly worked with an FBI informant for months as they crafted and carried out their plan.

FIVE anarchists have been arrested in a plot to blow up an Ohio bridge, as they tried to detonate explosives.

Public not in danger because explosives were inoperable and controlled by undercover FBI employee

Bei den Ermittlungen zur NSU-Mordserie ignorierte die Polizei Hinweise des FBI, dass es sich um Neonazis handeln könnte. Nun müssen die Ermittler vor dem Bundestag aussagen. mehr...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A joint Louisiana state police and FBI task force is investigating allegations that the New Orleans Saints set up general manager Mickey Loomis' booth in the Superdome so he could listen in on opposing coaches.

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- Investigators early Monday sent FBI dogs trained for urban searches into the Tucson home where a 6-year-old girl disappeared as teams of law officers worked to determine if she was abducted....

As many as 92 US lawmakers have urged the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to collect data on hate crimes against Sikh-American

How the FBI spent a decade hunting white supremacists and missed Timothy McVeigh.

Before leaving Goldman Sachs to earn a millionaire’s salary with Chicago High Frequency Trading (HFT) startup Teza Technologies, Sergey Aleynikov made one last transaction. At 5:20pm on his last day, just before his going-away party, Aleynikov uploaded 500,000 lines of encrypted source code from the Wall Street firm's proprietary HFT system to a server located in Germany. Following the clandest...

Shortly after Osama bin Laden was killed in May, the FBI sent out a request to its field offices to nominate candidates who could fill bin Laden's place on the bureau's "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list.

The FBI denies a report that a top official has suggested it feared a sexy Russian spy was edging close to the White House in 2010.

Just days after retiring FBI executive assistant Shawn Henry warned that U.S. businesses and law enforcement are vastly overmatched by cyber criminals, more than 10 million MasterCard and Visa card numbers have been reportedly stolen in a “massive” data theft. The two companies late last week began warning banks that specific cards may have been [...]

The Unreal computer games engines is being licensed to the FBI and other US government agencies to aid training.

"Der dachte wohl, der Pfaff ist ein Trottel, aber da hat er sich geirrt", schmunzelt Pfarrer Michael. Kurz zuvor hat er einen gesuchten Betrüger, der die Nacht auf seiner Kirchenbank in Wien-Döbling verbracht hatte, der Polizei übergeben. Der 69-jährige Marco Francis M. machte eine große Szene vor dem Altar und gab sich als FBI-Agent aus.

Ben Kessler, a student at the University of North Texas and an environmental activist, was more than a little surprised that an FBI agent questioned his philosophy professor and acquaintances about his whereabouts and his sign-waving activities aimed at influencing local gas drilling rules. Read full article >>

ONE OF two Irish students charged with computer hacking by the FBI was yesterday released from Garda custody without charge having been arrested for questioning a day earlier.

The FBI has named two young Irish men as members of a six-man group said to lead a global computer hacking organisation, in indictment papers in a New York court.

Mit Angriffen auf die Webseiten von Firmen wie MasterCard und Visa sorgten Hacker von Anonymous und LulzSec für Schlagzeilen. Jetzt gingen US-Ermittlern führende Mitglieder ins Netz - verraten von einem Mitstreiter.

Bureau investigates News Outdoor Russia, a Russian billboard company, which the US media organisation sold out of last year

Michael Douglas, who played a greedy executive in the movie Wall Street, is the FBI's new spokesman against insider trading.

The FBI and Massachusetts police are trying to figure out who "hijacked" Facebook photos of teenage girls from more than a dozen high schools in the state and posted them on a website police say features child pornography.

LONDON Feb 7 (Reuters) - U.S. authorities are stepping up investigations, including an FBI criminal inquiry, into possible violations by employees of Rupert Murdoch's media empire of a U.S. law...

Ich lese gerade The Black Banners von Ali Soufan. Soufan ist ein ehemaliger FBI Agent der für das FBI auf Al-Kaida angesetzt war, unter anderem die Attacke auf die USS Cole in Yemen untersuchte und über die Jahre mehrere wichtige Verdächtige verhörte. In seinem Buch bin ich über eine Feststellung gestolpert, die ein interessanter Aspekt der Psyche eines Terroristen sein könnte.Ich habe...

A former Credit Suisse employee surrendered to the FBI ahead of planned criminal charges alleging misstatements in mortgage-bond valuations during the financial crisis.

Clint Eastwood and his writer Dustin Lance Black are coy when mentioning, but then not really exploring, Hoover’s contempt for civil liberties, especially those of his political enemies.

New York (dpa) - Schlagabtausch im Netz: Hacker haben für Stunden die Websites von FBI und US-Justizministerium lahmgelegt, weil die US-Behörden die Datentausch-Plattform Megaupload dichtgemacht habe...

Clint Eastwood sort les dossiers secrets liés à J. Edgar Hoover, l’ex-patron du FBI. Et offre un nouveau rôle majeur à Leonardo DiCaprio. ...lire la suite

It's often occurred to me that Victoria Jackson's whole "Right Wing conservative-helium-head-wacky bitch-conspiracy theorist" act MIGHT just be some sort of STUNT QUEEN performance art piece. It will all make sense one day at a low-budget indie theater near you (no parmesan to sprinkle on the popcorn and that homeless-looking person you figured for a university professor who left persona...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The family of a former FBI agent who vanished in Iran in 2007 has released a hostage video showing him alive and asking for help. The video shows Robert Levinson, looking gaunt, asking for the US government's help "to answer the requests of the group that has… Visit: http://www.nation.com.pk for full story

Seven people go on trial on Monday for the multi-million pound theft of a Monet, Sisley and two Breughels in Nice but their leader claims the FBI's art crimes chief "ordered" the heist.

The actor, generating award buzz for his performance in the Clint Eastwood film, finds the longtime FBI director fascinating and frustrating.The actor, generating award buzz for his performance in the Clint Eastwood film, finds the longtime FBI director fascinating and frustrating.

Leonardo DiCaprio has played famous, real-life figures before, but no role has required him to span the length of time that he does in Clint Eastwood's "J. Edgar" as the former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.