A five-year, $8.9 million FBI effort to digitally track DNA sample testing is in danger of failing, concludes a new Justice Department inspector general report. "We are concerned that the project... Read more...

The FBI, having voluntarily stopped work on phases three and four of its troubled Sentinel program, now wouldn't be able to re-start development work on them without approval from the Senate... Read more...

Systematic law enforcement information sharing difficulties with INTERPOL was the subject of a May 28 letter from Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) to the Justice and Homeland Security departments. Towns... Read more...

A man who attempted to sell the Defense Department counterfeit Cisco equipment was sentenced in a Texas federal court May 6 to 51 months in prison. The man, Ebab Ashoor, 49 and a citizen of Saudi... Read more...

The Transportation Security Administration said May 5 that it has tightened commercial airline requirements on screening passengers against updates to the No Fly list. Starting immediately, airlines... Read more...

A traceable electronic trail, spread by a disposable cell phone and email, was key in finding Faisal Shahzad, the man allegedly behind the attempted Times Square car bomb. Shahzad was arrested May 3... Read more...

Sentinel, the FBI's web-based investigative case management system, should be completed in 2011, said FBI Director Robert Mueller on April 15. "My expectation is it will be completed in 2011,"... Read more...

Identity theft is a major threat to millions of Americans but a new inspector general audit of the Justice Department worries efforts against it are falling by the wayside. In 2008, identity theft... Read more...

The FBI knowingly accepted faulty software from Lockheed Martin as part of the bureau's effort to create a web-based investigative case management system, finds a Justice Department inspector general... Read more...

A cybercrime may occur in the virtual world, but its damage can be very real. The severity of such crimes is one reason cybercrime has become a top priority for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.... Read more...