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YAHOO: - A retired FBI agent was indicted on murder charges Thursday for allegedly taking bribes from a mobster to supply him with inside information that led to four underworld slayings in Brooklyn. | | Probe of online investigation firms sought.
Privacy rights group says services on offer violate federal laws LOS ANGELES - A privacy rights advocacy group has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether Web sites advertising investigative services capable of digging up personal information such as phone call records are violating federal laws. | | New Security Criteria for C-TPAT Importers.
The new security criteria for C-TPAT importers are effective as of March 25, 2005. | | C-TPAT: Statement by Homeland Security Secretary .
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| | ChoicePoint Curtails Business, Changes Methods to Protect Data Wall Street Journal (06/24/05) P. A10 ChoicePoint Inc. is sharply curtailing one line of business and making significant changes in the way it shares much of its electronic data, in an effort to avoid incidents like the data breach disclosed earlier this year in which criminals obtained personal information on about 145,000 people. The Alpharetta, Ga., data concern will electronically mask sensitive information such as Social Security numbers in its reports, such as background checks provided to companies on new employees. ChoicePoint is also taking steps to severely reduce its business in providing data to private investigators, collection agencies and some small financial concerns. | | ZDNet reports that Microsoft UK has chosen a new security chief, a man with plenty of experience of the criminal underworld... "The company announced late last week that it had appointed Edward Gibson as its chief security advisor in the UK. Gibson, who will take up his new role in July, has worked for America's Federal Bureau of Investigation as an assistant legal attaché for the UK. He started at the FBI in 1985 as a special agent, and has a track-record of fighting money laundering, fraud, financial crime and intellectual-property theft, according to Microsoft. " | | Google news Google News gathers stories from more than 4,500 news sources in English worldwide, and automatically arranges them to present the most relevant news first. | FBI Press Releases:
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FBI Celebrates 60th Anniversary of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives Program
In 1949, a reporter for approached the FBI and asked about writing a story about the "toughest guys" being sought by the FBI at the time. We provided the names and descriptions of 10 fugitives to the reporter. The resulting feature became a major story and gained national attention. As a consequence of overwhelming public interest, on March 14, 1950, then-Director J. Edgar Hoover inaugurated the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives program.
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President and COO of New York Money Center Indicted in $50 Million Fraud Scheme
Robert Egan, the president of Mount Vernon Money Center (MVMC), and Bernard McGarry, the chief operating officer, were indicted in Manhattan federal court on charges of defrauding banks, other financial institutions, retailers, hospitals, and universities out of $50 million in funds that had been entrusted to MVMC.
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New York Woman Pleads Guilty in Bank Fraud Scheme
Karen Hewitt pled guilty in Albany, New York to her role in a bank fraud scheme involving three other individuals, all of whom have pled guilty.
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Connecticut Man Sentenced for Role in Narcotics Ring
Robert Kalman, of Guilford, Connecticut, was sentenced to three years in federal prison for conspiring to sell cocaine.
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Louisiana Man Charged with Mail and Bank Fraud
Timothy M. Strain, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was charged with mail and bank fraud for allegedly using fraudulent money orders to pay the balance due on two vehicle loans.
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National Center for Disaster Fraud to Coordinate Haitian, Chilean Complaints
Shortly after the earthquake in Haiti last January, the FBI and the National Center for Disaster Fraud (NCDF) established a telephone hotline to report suspected fraud associated with relief efforts. Since then, with the recent earthquake in Chile, our efforts have expanded to identify similar fraud activity emerging from that disaster. The public is encouraged to call the hotline--(866) 720-572--to report suspected fraud from either disaster.
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FBI Exec Testifies Before Senate on Public Corruption of U.S. Officials at Borders
Kevin L. Perkins, assistant director of the FBI's Criminal Investigative Division, testified before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Ad Hoc Subcommittee on State, Local, and Private Sector Preparedness and Integration at a hearing entitled "New Border War: Corruption of U.S. Officials by Drug Cartels."
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President and COO of New York Money Center Indicted in $50 Million Fraud Scheme
Robert Egan, the president of Mount Vernon Money Center (MVMC), and Bernard McGarry, the chief operating officer, were indicted in Manhattan federal court on charges of defrauding banks, other financial institutions, retailers, hospitals, and universities out of $50 million in funds that had been entrusted to MVMC.
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'JihadJane' suspect dropped out before high school, married at 16
The Pennsylvania woman who allegedly used the Internet alias JihadJane to recruit people for violent jihad had dropped out before reaching high school and was married at age 16, the start of a bumpy life that might have left her vulnerable to radical beliefs, according to federal sources and publ...
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JihadJane, an American woman, faces terrorism charges
A petite, blond-haired, blue-eyed high school dropout who allegedly used the nickname JihadJane was identified Tuesday as an alleged terrorist intent on recruiting others to her cause, as federal prosecutors unsealed criminal charges that could send her to prison for life.
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Ex-British spy chief: U.S. misled Britain about treatment of terrorism suspects
LONDON -- U.S. intelligence agencies misled key allies, including Britain, about its mistreatment of terrorism suspects, the former head of the country's domestic spy agency, MI5, said Tuesday.
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Pentagon resists Army's desire to stop development of MEADS missile system
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Prince George's police officer, 27, dies after car crash
There's a photo that shows Thomas P. Jensen wearing a Prince George's County police uniform when he was 4 years old, friends said. Sure, it was just a Halloween costume, but everyone knew it was only a matter of time before Jensen would be wearing the uniform for real.
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Murder trial begins in case of D.C. woman who vanished in 1999
It's been nearly 11 years since Yolanda Baker's family has seen her. So much time had passed that authorities declared her legally dead last year, although her body has never been found.
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Police investigate death of 10-month-old in Northwest D.C.
D.C. homicide detectives are investigating the death of a 10-month-old girl who lapsed into unconsciousness Tuesday night while being cared for by a nanny in her parents' Northwest Washington home, police said.
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'Surreal' arrests in Pakistan disrupt close family, Muslim community
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Psychologist says Evan Gargiulo, defendant in cabdriver's killing, was insane
A nationally known psychologist, who for decades has testified exclusively as a prosecution witness attacking defendants' claims of insanity, appeared for the defense in Fairfax County on Tuesday and said a man who fatally shot a cabdriver in Tysons Corner was insane.
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FBI Probes N.J. Man Linked to al Qaeda, Attack in Yemen
Fox news reports a suspected Al Qaeda militant from Buena, N.J., is being investigated by the FBI after his arrest in the Middle East for allegedly trying to shoot his way out of a hospital in Yemen, WMGM-TV in Atlantic City reported.
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Internet Aids Terrorist Recruiting, Radicalization, Pentagon says
Militant and terrorist groups are using the Internet to streamline their terrorist recruiting, radicalization, and training. The man who allegedly attempted to blow up an American airliner on Christmas Day was contacted, recruited, and trained in just six weeks, officials say.
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DHS National Cyber Security Awareness Campaign Challenge
Are you up to The Challenge? We at the National Terror Alert Response Center are.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has unveiled DHS’ National Cybersecurity Awareness Campaign Challenge—a new initiative that calls on cybersecurity experts and individuals across the country to develop innovative new ways to enhance public awareness about the [...]<p>This story comes to us via <a href="http://www.nationalterroralert.com">Homeland
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No-Fly List Has Doubled in Size and Will Get Bigger
U.S. enforcement and intelligence officials said Wednesday that the no-fly list barring passengers with suspected terror ties from boarding planes has already increased in size since the attempted Christmas Day bombing of Northwest Flight 253, and was likely to get much larger.
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Virus Sent To Sabotage Terror Watch List Computers
Colorado’s 9News reports federal prosecutors have charged a former Transportation Security Administration employee with attempting to sabotage terror watch list computers.
According to the report, Douglas Duchak, 46, of Colorado Springs, faces two charges of attempting to damage protected TSA computers.
Duchak pleaded not guilty and was released from custody.
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Wikibooks Cryptography Textbook
Over at Wikibooks, they're trying to write an open source cryptography textbook....
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Wanted: Trust Detector
It's good to dream: IARPA's five-year plan aims to design experiments that can measure trust with high certainty -- a tricky proposition for a psychological study. Developing such experimental protocols could prove very useful for assessing levels of trust within one-on-one talks, or even during group interactions. A second part of the IARPA proposal might involve using new types of...
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Nose Biometrics
Really: Since they are hard to conceal, the study says, noses would work well for identification in covert surveillance. The researchers say noses have been overlooked in the growing field of biometrics, studies into ways of identifying distinguishing traits in people. "Noses are prominent facial features and yet their use as a biometric has been largely unexplored," said the University...
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The Limits of Identity Cards
Good legal paper on the limits of identity cards: Stephen Mason and Nick Bohm, "Identity and its Verification," in Computer Law & Security Review, Volume 26, Number 1, Jan 2010. Those faced with the problem of how to verify a person's identity would be well advised to ask themselves the question, 'Identity with what?' An enquirer equipped with the answer...
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Marc Rotenberg on Google's Italian Privacy Case
Interesting commentary: I don't think this is really a case about ISP liability at all. It is a case about the use of a person's image, without their consent, that generates commercial value for someone else. That is the essence of the Italian law at issue in this case. It is also how the right of privacy was first established...
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