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- New technique IDs substances, not just fingerprints
- Law enforcement has a powerful new tool – mass spectrometry. The technique to measure the chemical composition of a sample isn't a new technology but, writing in Science, R. Graham Cooks has identified a variation that will allow crime labs to identify not only the identity of...
- Tags: technique, law enforcement, fingerprint, times, productivity, richard koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
- Do feds track cell users illegally? Legal groups want to know
- The ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the Justice Dept. Tuesday for information regarding the use of cellphones as tracking devices. The Washington Post reports that the ACLU had filed, back in November, a Freedom of Information Act request for documents, memos and guidelines on tracking cellphone users. ...
- Tags: Court, Cell Phone, Law Enforcement, Government, Cellular Phones, Vertical Industries, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Top Reverse Address (exe)
- Fill out the address to seek information on the person you are investigating. Our people record databases are the same ones used by private investigators, law enforcement, and government agencies. Only current, accurate and instant results. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Law Enforcement, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2008-05-12
- MySpace finds 29,000 sex offenders on the site
- Ever since MySpace relented to law enforcement to provide information on registered sex offenders who have posted profiles, everyone has wanted to know: How many perverts are busily chatting away to fellow MySpace users? The answer, it turns out, is shockingly high.MySpace.com has found more than 29,000 registered sex offenders...
- Tags: Law enforcement
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- National image database could tag child porn
- The head of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children told Congress today that Internet search engines are working on a scheme to make kiddie porn images much more difficult to access, Ars Technica reports.According to Ernie Allen, CEO of the NCMEC, child pornography can float around the Internet...
- Tags: Law enforcement
- Blog posts 2007-07-24
- FBI, Chinese bust huge software piracy ring
- The FBI and Chinese police made a huge software piracy bust, officials said Tuesday, arresting two software piracy gangs and seizing $500 million worth of pirated software, AP reports. Police arrested 25 people, seizing 360,000 programs, mostly from Microsoft and Symantec, and property valued at $7.9 million. The gangs allegedly...
- Tags: Law enforcement, China
- Blog posts 2007-07-24
- When police plant spyware, what does anti-spyware do?
- In the cat and mouse game of the Internet, the murky area of spyware vs. anti-spyware isn't always clear. Now that law enforcement is using spyware to monitor suspects' computers, can the government stop anti-spyware companies from nuking policeware?News.com surveyed 13 anti-spyware vendors, all of whom stated that their policy...
- Tags: Law enforcement
- Blog posts 2007-07-21
- Buy too much Sudafed and you may get a visit from a cop
- If you have a runny nose and run to the store to purchase a decongestant, don't be too surprised if a detective shows up at your door shortly thereafter. Ever since a federal law went into effect that regulates pseudoephedrine, tracking systems have begun to pop up in local pharmacies,...
- Tags: Law enforcement
- Blog posts 2007-07-19
- Cockfighting webcasters challenge law against depictions of Internet cruelty
- Cockfighting is illegal in 49 states and it's a federal crime to sell depictions of animal cruelty. But Advanced Consulting and Marketing webcasts its cockfights from Puerto Rico, where it's legal, and the company claims, the federal law is violation of its First Amendment rights, The New York Times...
- Tags: Web, Law enforcement
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
- Anatomy of an Internet scam
- Through persistence and tech savvy, a tenacious San Jose detective has uncovered a Internet crime ring that sheds light on how these criminals carry out their digital thievery, reports the San Jose Mercury News.In just five months, Detective Mike Niehoff uncovered a massive Internet fraud ring that used Craigslist, eBay...
- Tags: Law enforcement
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
- Birth of RoboCop? iRobot sells taser-wielding robots to police, Pentagon
- Although RoboCops aren't walking the neighborhood beat yet, one vacuum cleaner manufacturer has joined forced with a stun-gun manufacturer to develop robots for police forces and the Pentagon, reports the Associated PressiRobot Corp. is hoping that soldiers and law enforcement will embrace the idea of a taser-wielding robot as a...
- Tags: Defense, Law enforcement
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- Secret Service busts French ID theft ring
- The U.S. Secret Service, in conjunction with the French National Police, has busted an international ID theft ring that has caused more than $14 million in fraud losses, reports InfoWorld.The French National Police arrested four people on online fraud charges, one of whom had the alias "Lord Kaisersose" and is...
- Tags: Law enforcement, International
- Blog posts 2007-06-27
- In abduction of cleric, operatives leave cellphone trail leading to CIA doorstep
- In the game of cat and mouse, it's best not to leave footprints. But that's just what the CIA did in 2003 when it's effort to carry out an "extraordinary rendition" failed due to a cellular transmissions trail left by the officers, reports Wired News.Twenty-five CIA agents are facing trial...
- Tags: Law enforcement, International, Intelligence
- Blog posts 2007-06-26
- Jailers can't keep Blackberries, phones out of jail
- From urban hipsters to dirt poor Africans, everyone needs a cellphone. So why not prisoners? Just because they're contraband hasn't stopped many California prisoners from smuggling in over 1,000 cellphones and Blackberries into prisons, reports the Los Angeles Times.The problem has exploded in recent year as cell phones get smaller...
- Tags: Mobile/wireless, Law enforcement
- Blog posts 2007-06-26
- MySpace data leads to arrests of seven sex offenders
- Texas is reeling in its first convicted sex offenders for posting profiles on MySpace, after the popular social networking site handed over data requested by the attorney general, reports Computer WorldTexas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced that Texas police arrested six convicted sex offenders in a crackdown after MySpace turned...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt, Law enforcement
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- Online crime unit boasts its 1,000,000th crime report
- It's some sort of dubious milestone - the US Internet Crime Complaint Center (or IC3) has fielded its millionth complaint. Ars Technica reports that IC3, founded as a clearing house to help online crime victims find the appropriate law enforcement agency, is doing a brisk business these days.The IC3...
- Tags: Law enforcement
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- Sickos busted, kids rescued: Chatroom featured live abuse of children
- Using cunning and state-of-the-art surveillance techniques, international investigators have busted up an worldwide pedophile ring, reports the Associated Press.British, U.S., Canadian and Australian investigators infiltrated an Internet chat room that streamed live videos of children being raped, rescuing 31 children and identifying more than 700 suspects worldwide."You could go and...
- Tags: Law enforcement
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- Audit reveals extent of FBI abuse of national security letters
- When it comes to the FBI spying on the general population, things are much worse than previously thought. An internal audit found that the FBI found has committed more than 1,000 violations of domestic spying rules as agents poked into domestic phone calls, emails and financial transactions, reports the Washington...
- Tags: Law enforcement, Privacy
- Blog posts 2007-06-14
- FBI cracks down on botnets
- We can all sleep better at night knowing that the FBI is keeping our computers safe. On Wednesday, the FBI announced it had found over one million computers infected by botnets, or networks of "zombie" machines, reports Wired News.Although it sounds like a 1950s sci-fi movie, zombie networks are...
- Tags: Law enforcement
- Blog posts 2007-06-14
- FTC nails online music store vendor BurnLounge as pyramid
- If you have dreams of becoming the owner of the the next iTunes store, don't count on BurnLounge to give you a leg up. The Federal Trade Commission has recently fingered the digital music store as being more like a pyramid scheme and less like a legitimate digital music retailer,...
- Tags: Law enforcement
- Blog posts 2007-06-14
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