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FBI probes cyberattacks on oil firms
The FBI is investigating cyberattacks on three major oil companies in 2008 that involved the theft of proprietary information, according to an article in The Christian Science Monitor. The companies... Read more...
Report: FBI broke law in terrorist probes
A report in the Washington Post on Tuesday raised serious questions about how well U.S. intelligence agencies are handling terrorist-related investigations. In the wake of investigating terrorist... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Cybersecurity specialist to run FBI's DC office
The FBI has named a cybersecurity expert to head its Washington Field office. Shawn Henry, 47, has been the assistant director of the bureau's cyber division. He also has headed up probes of computer... Read more...
Top government IT failures
Federal Computer Week has compiled a list of seven major information technology projects that went south, and in the process, cost taxpayers a pretty penny. Some were abandoned after years of work,... Read more...
Just how do cyber agencies track hack attacks?
Some secrets are worth keeping, and one of them is how to identify a cyberattack, congressional testimony revealed on Tuesday. Members of the Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security... Read more...
Another delay for FBI's Sentinel
The FBI is planning to launch the Sentinel electronic information and case management system soon. A report released this week by the Justice Department's inspector general, however, reveals there is... Read more...
FBI: 400,000 names on terrorist watch list
The FBI has a problem. Buoyed by technology, it has now collected a list of 400,000 names on its terrorist watch list. In a 12-month period that ended in March this year, the U.S. intelligence... Read more...
VA seeks contractor to cut education benefits backlog; What's missing from Recovery.gov?;
> VA seeks contractor to cut education benefits backlog. Article > What's missing from Recovery.gov? Article > Woman loses job over FBI crime database error. Article > IBM creates new... Read more...
FBI cannot handle load of electronic evidence
The FBI's collection of intercepted emails and wiretapped phone calls has soared in recent years, but its ability to sort through the potential evidence has failed to keep up with what it receives. A... Read more...
NASA scientist busted for leaking satellite intel
A former NASA scientist who helped discover evidence of water on the moon has been charged in a spy case involving his attempt to sell classified information about U.S. military satellite systems to... Read more...
